Dev's Take on Model Releases: Mild General Gains Plus Specialized Data Tricks
xiaosun86 · x · 2026-09-06
A developer frames current model releases as solving a differential equation: mild improvements to general capability plus dumps of task-specific data that make models especially good at new tricks — like the wave of Astra models generating vectorized videos.
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