MAI's strict no-synthetic-data mandate vs nemotron's heavily synth-augmented pretraining
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-11-12
@stochasticchasm illustrates how lab data strategies diverge: Microsoft's MAI enforces a strong no-synthetic-data mandate, while NVIDIA's nemotron relies on heavily synth-augmented pretraining. With labs' massive compute, small initial idea differences like these could compound into very different model trajectories over time.
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