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parameter scaling resumes via RL scaling

April 4, 2026Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Patel says model size growth stalled after GPT-4, and argues the return to bigger models is partly explained by RL scaling, citing a possible 5T-parameter direction.

parameter scaling had stalled for a long time after GPT-4's trillion+ parameters
only now are models getting bigger again.
Partially it’s RL scaling
Dwarkesh Patel
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