Research consensus: RL compute, not architecture, drives capability

Open AI researchers, including burnytech and Sebastian Raschka, say a new consensus is emerging: recent architecture tweaks are mostly efficiency gains, while capability is mainly driven by better RL environments, more RL compute, and better pretraining data.

2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-23 · 2 related posts

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