Sasha Rush: Hyped New Model Is Just a Base Model, Post-Training Incomplete

Sasha Rush cautioned that a much-discussed new competing model is only a base model with post-training still incomplete, noting the team has had the full codebase for years and its previous release was more a proof of concept.

2026-10-16 ~ 2026-10-16 · 2 related posts

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