Model outputs won't tell you a lab's trajectory — watch the research process
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-14
AI observer teortaxesTex argues that while model outputs and benchmarks reveal capability, they say almost nothing about a company's culture or the long-term trajectory of its research program — for that you must study the process itself. He says this heuristic has served him well analyzing DeepSeek, where research-path choices signal more than any single score.
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