⚡️ Intelligence-per-Watt: The next frontier in AI efficiency
A new paper from the Hazy Research team introduces a powerful idea, Intelligence-per-Watt (IPW) as the core metric for measuring how much “useful intelligence” a system delivers per unit of energy.
Local AI is catching up fast:
• Local models now handle ~89% of common chat and reasoning tasks, matching cloud models for most daily use cases.
• Since 2023, their IPW has improved over 5×, showing explosive efficiency gains on-device.
• This suggests a coming shift in AI inference — from cloud datacenters to local hardware like laptop
A new paper from the Hazy Research team introduces a powerful idea, Intelligence-per-Watt (IPW) as the core metric for measuring how much “useful intelligence” a system delivers per unit of energy.
Local AI is catching up fast:
• Local models now handle ~89% of common chat and reasoning tasks, matching cloud models for most daily use cases.
• Since 2023, their IPW has improved over 5×, showing explosive efficiency gains on-device.
• This suggests a coming shift in AI inference — from cloud datacenters to local hardware like laptop
