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In October 2025, Nick Cammarata published a non-peer-reviewed long article through the interpretability company Goodfire, proposing that the "cat-car neuron" is actually distinguishing "pointy versus round" rather than encoding cats and cars simultaneously.
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10/22/2026
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One Neuron Detects Both Cats and Cars? We Reproduced It and Found a New Explanation
youtubeUp the Tech Tree10/16/2026
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