3 papers
cs.AI2026
Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Findings on AI Automation from Thousands of Worker Evaluations of Labor Market Tasks
Matthias Mertens, Adam Kuzee, Brittany S. Harris +6
We characterize AI automation as a continuum between crashing waves, in which capabilities jump abruptly across narrow task sets, and rising tides, in which capabilities improve co…
cs.AI2026
Is there "Secret Sauce'' in Large Language Model Development?
Matthias Mertens, Natalia Fischl-Lanzoni, Neil Thompson
Do leading LLM developers possess a proprietary ``secret sauce'', or is LLM performance driven by scaling up compute? Using training and benchmark data for 809 models released betw…
cs.LG2025
The Price of Progress: Price Performance and the Future of AI
Hans Gundlach, Jayson Lynch, Matthias Mertens +1
Language models have seen enormous progress on advanced benchmarks in recent years, but much of this progress has only been possible by using more costly models. Benchmarks may the…