The AI Industry Is Fighting the Wrong War. Here’s the Real Battlefield.
Stanford’s CS329A course reveals the hidden frontier of AI: not bigger models, but smarter inference-time compute and reliable verifiers. Small models, given 10,000 attempts, can outperform GPT-4. The real bottleneck isn’t parameters—it’s building verifiers that can judge complex outputs. The next AI revolution won’t be about scale; it will be about trust and self-correction.