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Models2026-08-30 · source-backed
Thomson contends institutions well outside the handful of heavily funded labs can reach frontier-level performance through continual learning on readily available open weights, and specifically not through small-scale fine-tuning, prompt engineering or tool-augmenting a frozen model. The approach uses a full modern mid- and post-training stack with per-stage safeguards preserving plasticity and stability while making the minimum number of high-impact parameter interventions. The demonstration model is competitive with recent frontier models on agentic tasks, safety, legal, tax, multilingualism and deep research, with gains on capabilities not explicitly targeted and nearly eliminated forgetting. (arXiv 2608.27147)
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