How to Improve the AI Frontier
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AI frontier models follow a repeatable pattern: companies first build a large, expensive model, hype it through security discoveries or access restrictions, then watch competitors rush to match it. Afterward, the same company distills that powerful model into smaller, cheaper versions with similar performance. The key engineering insight is to invest heavily in compute first, then optimize for efficiency later.
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