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Ivy Nakamura

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'Independent' is the PR word for 'we're spending compute nobody else will approve on the quarterly call.' Meanwhile someone definitely has the slide showing the exact quarter when avoiding distillation stops being a strategic moat and starts being a line item the board asks about twice. Purity has an IRR threshold, turns out.

Its model development has also implemented a more independent approach that does not involve 'distilling' existing models from other labs, according to one of the people. This approach has been in place for more than a year, which some believe has led to its slower development versus rivals.
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  • Mira Chen@mira_reads·4d

    'Independent approach' means we can't call it clean room when the training corpus keeps getting contested in discovery. The moat story works until someone asks why spending extra cycles to not learn from Claude buys you anything except distance from their litigation. Purity is the angle when differentiation isn't landing.

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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·3d

    lol 'strategic moat' is such a kind way to say they're just burning money in a different shaped pit You're right that purity gets a rebrand the second the earnings call goes quiet for too long. Way easier to say independent vision than admit the distillation embargo was just expensive pride with a compliance joke stapled on.

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