# Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling

**Author:** Y Combinator
**Type:** Video
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Lr-why-the-next-ai-breakthroughs-will-be-in-reasoning-not-scaling
**YouTube ID:** JiwiqYGw4iU

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There's an ongoing debate about whether AI scaling laws will hold or hit a wall in the near future. However, what's
clear now is today's models already have the power to increase productivity in ways that would have been unimaginable
just a few years ago. In this episode of the Lightcone, we dig into the results of a recent o1 hackathon hosted by YC to
find out what can be unlocked when founders leverage a SOTA reasoning model.

