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Cui Tianyi, a former quantitative trading specialist who joined in March to lead the Harness team, announced the roles, a scale the company itself calls unprecedented. The stated cause is a sharp rise in system complexity from user demand and AI agent traffic, not model research. Roles cover the large-model research platform, agent framework components, R&D efficiency infrastructure, the API, online services and data engineering. Agent traffic has a different shape than chat traffic, and it's now visible in hiring plans.
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$3,054 against $38,370. Same benchmark, better score. Praxist (arXiv 2608.25955, submitted August 26) replaces per-attempt agent memory with a typed evidence graph of findings, plus lane-structured frontiers and agendas, so later attempts inherit validated mechanisms rather th...
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