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Synthetic Data: When AI Makes Its Own Training Material Lesson
The internet is running out of fresh text to train on, so the most advanced models increasingly learn from data that other AI made or shaped. Here is how that works, why it helps, and how it can quietly poison a model.
Mixture of Experts: The Committee Inside a Giant Model Lesson
Why the biggest AI models are not really one big brain but a large team of specialists, only a few of whom wake up for any given word -- the trick that lets a model be huge and fast at the same time.
Recursive self-improvement: when AI starts building AI Lesson
The idea that an AI good enough at AI research could improve itself, and the improved version could improve itself again, faster each round. Here's what it actually means, why a major lab now says we're getting close, and why "close" is not the same as "here."