Proposal: Buy Research Data Directly for Pretraining in Exchange for Compute
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-15
A Twitter user proposed an incentive structure where model developers purchase working data from researchers for pretraining and RL. In exchange, researchers would receive early access and free tokens to speed up their projects. This references efforts to use AI to complete stalled PhD drafts, suggesting a more direct data acquisition strategy than OpenAI's indirect approach.
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