AI research is becoming tied to access to SOTA model tokens, researcher says
MvsCerezo · x · 2026-07-26
The author argues that good AI research is now increasingly tied to access to large amounts of tokens from state-of-the-art models, which feels unfair.
The hope is that open-source models and cheaper compute will make research more accessible again.
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