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Periodic Labs' Rishabh Agarwal argues private AI lab secrecy forces open researchers to independently rediscover proprietary techniques

Nathan Lambert notes open projects like Tulu 3 standardize methods.

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OPRishabh Agarwal#196Rishabh Agarwal@AGARWL_

Someone once told me: "You should be the last one to reinvent something" -- not sure how useful this is, but this is a common occurrence in science. It is true that frontier AI labs have innovations that are often simultaneous / re-discovered by academic labs. However, folks outside those labs have no way of knowing about those innovations and their only source of reference would be the work shared openly.

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QUOTE POSTNathan Lambert#64Nathan Lambert@NATOLAMBERT

I'd go further and say most of open science defines a lot of how AI is discussed (e.g. our Tulu 3 project coining RLVR).

There's a lot of value in this sort of level setting and cutting out future noise in science by establishing methods publicly.

Rishabh AgarwalRishabh Agarwal@agarwl_

Someone once told me: "You should be the last one to reinvent something" -- not sure how useful this is, but this is a common occurrence in science. It is true that frontier AI labs have innovations that are often simultaneous / re-discovered by academic labs. However, folks outside those labs have no way of knowing about those innovations and their only source of reference would be the work shared openly.

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