a16z Investor Sees Diminishing Returns on Frontier Models

Olivia Moore, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz focused on AI and consumer tech, posted that it feels like many tasks show diminishing returns from newer frontier models. She suggested products may no longer auto-switch to the next frontier model upon release and argued this creates opportunities for app-layer builders to bring down costs. In a reply, Moore added that new frontier models will still gain value by unlocking tasks that we never dreamed of being able to do, such as curing cancer as her speculative example. In a reply to her post, Nick Walker suggested language models should publish task-specific performance scores resembling IQ ratings.