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If successful, dreaming or test-time training would add a fourth scaling axis alongside pretraining, reinforcement learning, and inference-time compute.

Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026

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“That's why I said this is a much more speculative idea.”
“If it works, it would become a fourth axis of scaling alongside pre-training, RL, and inference time compute.”
“You could call it test time training or dreaming.”
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