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A recent study conducted by MIT researchers suggests that the trend of developing large and computationally intensive AI models may soon face diminishing returns. According to the study, while frontier models from companies like OpenAI currently outperform models trained with less computational power, the situation might change over the next five to ten years. The researchers, including Neil Thompson and Hans Gundlach, highlighted that advances in efficiency could make smaller models running on modest hardware more capable. This trend is expected to particularly impact reasoning models, which rely heavily on computation during inference. The study raises questions about the current AI infrastructure boom, with companies like OpenAI entering into massive deals to build AI infrastructure in the US. The report suggests that the value of improving algorithms could be as significant as scaling up computational resources.