Niche AI Use Cases Keep Getting Absorbed Into General Models
samiramanabi · x · 2026-09-16
Quoting Łukasz Kaiser's congratulations to Periodic Labs, samiramanabi notes the irony of the model development cycle: every niche use case eventually gets rolled into the model's generic capability. Kaiser adds it's striking how far Astra got without any lab data, beating Sol even without targeting that problem.
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