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Nathan Lambert takes the TMax work as an example: using frontier models to generate terminal tasks, using multiple prompts to generate diversity, and using model rollouts to discover and eliminate buggy data—the whole process requires an investment of thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.
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10/25/2026
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Can Open-Source Models Catch Up to OpenAI? Nathan Lambert's In-Depth Analysis
youtubea16z10/14/2026
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