Naval: Frontier labs' flywheel is distilling data from the smartest users of leading models
naval · x · 2026-09-10
Naval Ravikant lays out the frontier lab flywheel: get the smartest people onto the leading models, then distill their inputs, the model's own outputs, and the resulting synthetic data and environments back into training. Smart users stick with the leading models because labs are locked in mutual competition.
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