Sara Hooker is a leading voice on the limits of scaling-centric AI, having coined the "slow death of scaling" thesis and now putting it into practice as co-founder and CEO of Adaption Labs — the $50M-backed startup (seed led by Emergence Capital) building AI systems that continuously learn and adapt on the fly rather than growing ever larger. Attending her session offers a rare window into both the theoretical case against scale-maximalism and the concrete engineering bet Adaption is placing on adaptive, efficient models through work like AutoScientist.

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Sara Hooker - The slow death of scaling and what comes next (Khipu 2025)Khipu 2025 · Jul 2025Sara Hooker (Adaption) on GPU bottlenecks, continuous learning, and the future of AIBig Chip Club (Cerebras) · May 2026

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