What Sergey Levine thinks about scaling laws

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Professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, and a co-founder of the robotic foundation model company Physical Intelligence.

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12 Sept 2025

Our readingEmergent abilities come from generalisation turning compositional, not merely from a training set containing a lot of stuff.

Their wordsYeah. So there's a subtlety here. Emerging capabilities don't just come from the fact that internet data has a lot of stuff in it. They also come from the fact that generalization once it reaches a certain level becomes compositional.

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