Frontier Model Lab
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AI labs rely on autocatalytic progress, not recursive self-improvement
“But if you ask the most sophisticated individuals at the labs, it's not actually RSI that's occurring, which could lead to some sort of runaway winner because they were an epsilon ahead of the others. It's auto catalytic effects, which just means you're using …”
Matan Grinberg: Europe is unlikely to catch up on frontier AI labs
“Probably on the, like, frontier model lab side.”
Labs train LLMs on benchmark questions for multiple epochs late in training
“It's very clear how the last stage of training for many of these models does have a massive amount of example or examine. Benchmaxing. Because the model will not, like, behaviorally complete exam questions with options if they have not really seen it at the en…”