Recent discussions in AI circles have revived the debate over whether Baidu discovered the concept of "scaling laws" before OpenAI. Scaling laws suggest that increasing model size and training data enhances intelligence, a theory popularized by OpenAI's 2020 paper. However, Dario Amodei, a co-author of that paper, mentioned in a podcast that he noticed similar principles during his tenure at Baidu in 2014, challenging the timeline of these developments.
