Do closed AI labs' research agendas diverge? Talent flow acts as a penalty term
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-11-12
A concise musing: since GPT-2, closed labs' long-term research ideas should have grown increasingly divergent, but talent flowing between labs acts like a penalty term against divergence — though "ideas have momentum." A compact observation on why frontier research agendas may converge.
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