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		imdsm 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM Are they making breakthroughs or are they taking what exists and copying/marginally improving?

FooBarWidget 8 months ago | [–]

"taking what exists and marginally improving" You just described most scientific progress. Real breakthroughs only happen in the newspapers and movies.

cma 8 months ago | [–]

I think they had the earliest paper with the modern take on scaling laws, from Baidu about 3 years before the similar paper from the US.

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