← Back to PeopleYMResearcherYifan MaiResearcher at Hugging FaceWebsiteA software engineer from Singapore currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area.1Mentions1Articles1OutletsCompanies CoveredAI211EleutherAI1Hugging Face1IBM Research1OpenAI1Stanford CRFM1ArticlesMost recent firstMentioned InReferenced in coverageAI evals are becoming the new compute bottleneckHugging FacecautiousApr 30, 2026“Co-author of research documenting how AI evaluation has crossed a cost threshold comparable to or exceeding training costs.”