2 papers
cs.LG2026
Joules-to-GDP: How Much Economic Value Do AI Systems Produce per Unit of Energy?
Amirreza Zeinali, Jon Saad-Falcon, Avanika Narayan +5
AI systems are increasingly used to complete economically valuable tasks in various professions, such as software engineering and finance. This motivates the question: how much eco…
cs.DC2025
Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI
Jon Saad-Falcon, Avanika Narayan, Hakki Orhun Akengin +12
Large language model (LLM) queries are predominantly processed by frontier models in centralized cloud infrastructure. Demand growth strains this paradigm faster than providers can…