If leading AI companies have the smartest AIs, software progress might enable them to run more AI copies or train smarter AIs with the same compute, with those gains compounding year after year.

“And if you then consider they'll have the smartest AIs potentially,”

“they might have software progress that allows them to run more copies of AIs or train AIs that are smarter with the same amount of compute,”

“then just carry that forward year after year.”

“those AIs are contributing to AI progress.”