Dev questions whether Prime Intellect's livestreamed RL run was a reenactment
giffmana · x · 2026-09-22
Jasper lu spotted a timeline inconsistency in Prime Intellect's model report: it says multiple mixRL teachers were trained and then combined into a student via MOPD, yet the team livestreamed their RL run and shipped model + report just one day after it finished — not enough time for distillation. giffmana suspects the livestream was a staged reenactment, or that the streamed run was only the final climb of one teacher, though the paper mentions no such climb. The exchange raises credibility questions about the 'transparent training' marketing.
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