Kant: 95% of foundation model building is data and compute efficiency
Eiso Kant · The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI · Jul 22, 2026 · at 34:49
Eiso Kant, co-founder and CEO of Poolside AI, demystifies the day-to-day reality of building frontier foundation models.
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“I actually think you can sum down. So I saw 90. Five percent of model building to just doing, you're just doing two things. You're improving data or you're improving compute efficiency.”
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