Data Lab Argues Truly General Synthetic Data Matters More Than Architecture
Paimaamu · x · 2026-09-18
- A retweeted exchange highlights a team positioned as a "data research lab," arguing the field underweights data relative to architecture.
- Their research focus is producing genuinely general data toward a "cognitive core."
- All of their training data is synthetic, but explicitly not the low-quality kind simply generated by an LLM.
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