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The 'daVinci-LLM' Paper Makes a Case That Pretraining Is Underrated — And Mostly Misunderstood
A new research paper argues that the foundational pretraining phase of language model development is both the most important and least scientifically understood component of the AI pipeline. Post-training cannot fix what pretraining didn't establish — and most of the field is treating pretraining as solved when it isn't.