Generalist-first beats from-scratch specialized models, argues Boris M. Power
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-24
Boris M. Power's take circulating on X: training specialized models from scratch with heavy effort is dead. The winning path is to train the most powerful general model, then distill into small specialized models only where inference efficiency demands it — a framing that, if right, ends the from-scratch specialist paradigm.
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