Frontier labs fear open source + RL fine-tuning hitting near-frontier perf at 20x lower cost
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-13
Guillaume Verdon (beffjezos) argues frontier labs are afraid of open source plus RL fine-tuning: many enterprises are experimenting and reaching near-frontier performance at 20x better cost-efficiency. Since this undermines closed labs' business models, he claims they are trying to kill the approach with red tape.
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