AI Scaling

The Scaling Lie: Why Your AI Model Is Destined to Hit a Wall

The AI industry is built on a scaling lie: that more compute will solve everything. But the energy wall is real, and every ‘breakthrough’ from MoE to agents is just a delay. Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the brain’s 20-watt efficiency, offers a radical alternative — but it’s not ready yet. The future of AI depends on unlearning brute-force and embracing sparsity.

AMD’s 256-Core EPYC Just Killed Enterprise Software Licensing. Here’s Why.

AMD’s EPYC 9006 Venice delivers 256 cores and 1GB of L3 cache per socket, a massive leap in computational density. But the real barrier to adoption isn’t silicon — it’s enterprise software licensing, which is priced per core and will make hardware costs look trivial. This article explores the collision of awe-inspiring hardware and outdated business models.