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Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI — HN submission

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:16:39 GMT

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

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Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI — HN submission

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:54:49 GMT

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI — mentioned by embedding-shape

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:45:33 GMT

You have to remember that articles like these are written for finance people who don't understand the underlying technology, by finance people who don't understand the underlying technology. In this case, the author is a "CFA Institute Enterprising Investor", previously a CIO and basically their entire life been "money, money & money", so hardly surprising they're pulling a lot of assumptions based on what they read. Read the paper the author talks about yourself instead (https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07885), and also, contrary to what the author says in the article, do not do investments based…

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Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI — mentioned by mzl

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:05:12 GMT

I like the intelligence per watt and intelligence per joule framing in https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07885 It feels like a very useful measure for thinking about long-term sustainable variants of AI build-outs.

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Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI — HN submission

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:55:58 GMT

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI — mentioned by mzl

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:55:43 GMT

Apart from measuring prices from venture-backed providers which might or might not correlate with cost-effectiveness, I think the measures of intelligence per watt and intelligence per joule from https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07885 is very interesting.

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