V4-Pro Improvement Debate: Stronger Base vs. Saturated Evals
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-01
The AI community debates potential improvements in V4-Pro. Proponents cite a stronger base model for more RL uplift and 'Whale Power'. Skeptics point to Flash's initial impressiveness, V4-Pro being undertrained, non-scalable CSA+HCA paradigm, saturated evals, same RL environments, and Flash-0731 being distilled from Pro GA.
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