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The speaker hopes that training on fewer environments will enable models to generalize more than existing harness-based, relatively naive training approaches.

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

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“A, you can train on less environments and generalize some more than what existing models can do through harnesses through existing kind of like naive training.”

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