A relation in which each multiplication of the input divides the quantity measured by the same fixed factor. The scaling laws found a model’s loss falling as a power law in its parameters, its data and its compute. Chapter 2.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 2 — The Discovery That Changed Everything
How a formula about compute and capability became a bill: the scaling laws, the first supercomputers built to test them, and why the money came before the paper.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Power law.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/power-law (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-power-law-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Power law}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/power-law},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}