No model watch item this issue.

From the Sep 17, 2026 daily brief

We haven't read any of last night's 145 new papers or 49 paper summaries, so there's no new paper to report this week because we didn't get to them, not because we confirmed there is none.

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• Research Sep 22, 2026 3 sources

  No major new papers this week.

  We haven't finished the 164 papers we pulled in overnight, and the academic abstracts held…

• Research Sep 21, 2026 1 sources

  No significant new papers this week.

  Our overnight sweep covered 47 authors and turned up nothing new; we don't dress up evergr…

• Research Sep 20, 2026 2 sources

  Cross-training each year's open-source model designs and training recipes from 2019 to 2025 against each year's corpora puts the data side's compute-equivalent gain at 3.24 times the model side's — a ratio of two gain multiples, not a share of contribution. The same day, the result was relayed as "model size scaling is dead."

  The experiment takes representative open-source model designs and training recipes from ea…

• Research Sep 12, 2026

  No model watch item this issue.

  Nothing new landed in this section, and we would rather leave the column empty than pass o…