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If higher lab margins are the main outcome, margins on some top AI models could rise from 80% to over 90%, requiring the leading model to be far better than competitors.

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“Do we end up in a world where we go from 80% margins for some of the top models to greater than 90% margins if the lab margin effect dominates? Well, that would require the leading model to be so far ahead of the competition because the nature of margins,”
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