Training Setup Largely Reuses Existing Methods
jxnlco · x · 2026-07-11
The post notes that these results don't stem from the model inventing a completely new training method from scratch; rather, it heavily reuses existing configurations from Sol.
The author estimates that for a setup of this smaller scale, reproducing or pushing it further would only take a few weeks and the equivalent of about two researchers' worth of extra effort.
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