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01 ·Large Language Models·FREE·PAPER·9 min read Scaling Laws from Scratch — Why Making Models Bigger Makes Them Smarter (and When It Doesn't) Scaling laws turn 'bigger is smarter' into an equation. This article walks from the Kaplan-era recipe to the Chinchilla paper (Hoffmann et al., 2022) — 400+ training runs, three independent estimation methods, and the 70B-vs-280B showdown — using only the paper itself as evidence.