Comment by binyu

AI has been slowing down relatively, considering its trajectory over the past 20-30 years. For one, even if LLM may have plateaud in terms of intelligence-parameters ratio, research is on-going on new frontiers for ML, including (but not limited to) world models. Other research directions are studying backpropagation and its physical analogies, such as equilibrium of chaotic states.

In addition, there's a lot of research on the hardware angle and actual prototypes are already being built such as AI-on-chip Cerebra and Taalas for one.