# AI Progress **Entity class:** Technological trajectory **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / science / political economy **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **AI Progress** is the measurable expansion of machine capability, reliability, efficiency, availability, and domain reach across successive systems. ## Mechanism and Consequence Release cadence matters because social and economic institutions adapt to yesterday’s capability while models, agents, and deployment costs continue changing beneath them. ## Relationships - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/AI Acceleration|AI Acceleration]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/AI Price-Performance|AI Price-Performance]] ## Source Dossiers - [[research/AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit|AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit]] - [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] - [[research/Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live|Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "The qualitatively new capabilities in Opus 5.5 are more interesting than the benchmarks. It can generate procedural video, procedural animation, and procedural images. OpenAI has video and image models that generate pixels, while Anthropic appears to be taking a different approach in which code underlies everything. With Opus 5.5, you can generate a high-quality video or an interactive textured game procedurally rather than pixel by pixel." > **— Alexander Wissner-Gross**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Information/Code-Based Generation May Matter More Than Benchmarks by Alexander Wissner-Gross|Code-Based Generation May Matter More Than Benchmarks by Alexander Wissner-Gross]] > "In the last twenty-two days, we have had twelve major model releases, including four releases in the last five days. We are averaging nearly one model release every two days." > **— Peter Diamandis**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Major AI Models Are Arriving Every Two Days by Peter Diamandis|Major AI Models Are Arriving Every Two Days by Peter Diamandis]]