They would point to the increasing model sizes and the ability to solve various benchmarks as proof of that exponential rise, but things have really tapered off since then in terms of how rapidly things are changing. I was promised a Ph.D. level researcher. A 20% better result on your OCR is not that. That's not to say it's a good thing and an improvement, but it's not what they are selling.
> Blackwell is the first chip to hit the lower estimation for brain compute performance.
What does that even mean? That's just more hype and marketing.