AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Maybe it's possible, but consider that some really smart people, in many different groups, have been working diligently in this space for quite a while; so claims of 95% savings on energy costs _with equivalent performance_ is in the extraordinary category. Of course, we'll see when the tide goes out.

It is a click bait headline the claim itself is not extraordinary. the preprint from arxiv was posted here some time back .

The 95% gains is specifically only for multiplication operations, inference is compute light and memory heavy in the first place so the actual gains would be far less smaller .

Tech journalism (all journalism really) can hardly be trusted to publish grounded news with the focus on clicks and revenue they need to survive.