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opinion claim

The speaker believes the problem of getting models to perform a job consistently for a month can be solved without being a frontier lab or using elaborate techniques.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“should do this like really just sit down and think about like if i took astra even the current frontier models are not good enough at like doing a particular job over let's say the span of a month consistently and well and i think this is like a stupid problem like i i genuinely think we can solve this you don't need to be a frontier lab and like do all this like you know fancy stuff for your ipo like i think like”
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