RL Boosts Imagination Models: Photon-1 Beats Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
induction_labs · x · 2026-07-24
Induction Labs released the Photon-1 model, demonstrating that scaling reinforcement learning consistently improves "imagination models."
After RL training, Photon-1 surpasses Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite on their internal computer use benchmarks. It achieves this using 30x less pretraining compute and at 3x lower serving costs.
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