@dlwh: Frontier AI models are built from thousands of small decisions: data sourcing, filtering, mixtures, curricula, scaling …
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Frontier AI models are built from thousands of small decisions, emphasizing the importance of process knowledge in their development.
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Frontier AI models are built from thousands of small decisions: data sourcing, filtering, mixtures, curricula, scaling experiments, optimizer choices, kernels, evals, failed runs, and protocols for deciding what gets scaled.
This is process knowledge.
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