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Scaling Machine Learning: Big Models/Data/Compute—More Is More

ML/AI/DL research on approaches using large models, datasets, and compute: "more is different"

20k subscribers137 posts / mo in Sep 202682 authors / mosince 2020

r/mlscaling has 20k members (+32% over the last 12 months). It gets about 137 posts a month from 82 people. Top topics: LLMs and AGI Progress, Local LLMs and Future of AI.

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How r/mlscaling has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+32%in 12 months · +4.8% in 3 months · +1.3% in 1 month
Oct 202620k
Growing20k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Oct 2020)
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+117%vs Sep 2025 · +28% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026137
BusierPeaked at 137 in Sep 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/mlscaling

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. LLMs and AGI Progress2.9%
  2. Local LLMs2.6%
  3. Future of AI1.3%
  4. OpenAI Updates0.8%
  5. OpenAI Models0.8%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. arXiv.org e-Print archive
  2. Hugging Face
  3. Substack
  4. Openai
  5. Home \ Anthropic

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