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The speaker estimates that catching up to the frontier would have required hundreds of millions of dollars about a year or perhaps 18 months earlier.
Misha Laskin · Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin · 9 Oct 2026
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“a year ago or maybe 18 months ago it would have been and i say orders meaning that you know order of 100 million so hundreds of millions”
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