The harness is the model "body", it's weight the cognition. Like in nature they develop together and the iteration of natural selection works at both.
If smaller labs (Zai, Moonshot, deepseek, mistral..) get together and embrace a harness, like opencode for example, as a consortium just by the power of "evolution across different environments" they might hit jackpot earlier than bigger labs.
But they rely on distilling the output of american leader models. Which will probably train against their own harness.
Someone has to do the baseline training, development, and innovation. it can't be clones all the way down
Why not? Humans are (very nearly) clones all the way down.
Citation needed, SOTA labs surely has technical protection and legaleese against using them for training. It's been done in th past but what indicates this is still the case?
this didn't stop the millions of copyrighted works used to train the models.
>Citation needed, SOTA labs surely has technical protection
They have unlimited APIs, as long as you pay, how would they control how you use them?
> and legaleese against using them for training.
It's a whole different jurisdiction, and in general chinese companies care way less about copyright infringement
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