Mahesh Sathiamoorthy(@madiator):I am reading the exact opposite way. This effort is very cool, and isn't it kind of amazing to collect your own data, run a custom midtrain, and then running your own RL to end up at the same performance as Astra max for 1/2 the inference price? Imagine what can then be next.

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Mahesh Sathiamoorthy@madiator

2026.09.16 14:09

I am reading the exact opposite way. This effort is very cool, and isn't it kind of amazing to collect your own data, run a custom midtrain, and then running your own RL to end up at the same performance as Astra max for 1/2 the inference price? Imagine what can then be next.