... Despite the hype, the frontier of AI might not be where most people are looking. While Big Tech continues to throw billions at scaling transformer-based LLMs, a recent Delphi study shows that 76% of leading AGI researchers no longer believe models like ChatGPT will meaningfully contribute to superintelligence. The marginal gains are becoming too expensive GPT-5 is estimated to cost up to $1B to train, yet the improvement is mostly superficial. What we re getting is better packaging ... ... better reasoning. Meanwhile, a quiet shift is happening in the background. Research in alternative