One consequence of the age of scaling is that … scaling sucked out all the air in the room. Because scaling sucked out all the air in the room, everyone started to do the same thing. We got to the point where, we are in a world where there are more companies than ideas, by quite a bit.
That’s from his appearance on Dwarkesh Podcast, which I love. It’s become the sort of “house organ” of the AI industry, or some part of it — the most interesting part — produced with curiosity and panache.