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Dario said that model performance tends to degrade at long contexts and that training and serving context lengths are distinct.
Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026
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“is not infinitely strong but he was explaining why model performance tends to degrade at long context he said there's two things there's the context length you train at and there's a context length that you serve at if you train at a small context length and then try to serve at a long context length like maybe you get these degradations”Play from 6:59Report a misattribution
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