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Efficiency remains extremely important across AI systems and problem-solving workflows.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“and like we can't afford to just always you know throw as much compute as possible at it like there is still an efficiency aspect of of all of these things that is super super important yes”Play from 8:31Report a misattribution
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