Theme

The premium on specialization collapses

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Welcome to December 21, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Broad capability outcompetes narrow expertise — in models trained on everything, and in the claim that human training should follow.

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2026-09-24: Boris Power interprets the driving result as support for general models

2026-07-05: A framework finds machine research ideas cluster where humans roam

2026-06-07: An untuned general model matches specialist chemistry software

2026-06-07: A specialist system autoformalizes two number-theory papers

2026-05-11: A lab winds down its fine-tuning API

2026-02-28: Law firms brand themselves Claude-native

2026-01-26: Cross-domain skill correlates almost as tightly as within-domain

2026-01-23: A definition of AGI as expert-level breadth that no human can match

2026-01-03: Hyperparameter sweeps turn out to be scale-invariant

2026-01-02: Speedrun gains transfer to the harder track and break it by 25%

2025-12-28: An agentic model drives a robot dog with no physical training

2025-12-26: Schmidhuber unveils PoPE, a geometric fix to the Transformer

2025-12-25: Sunday Robotics' Memo grasps objects it has never seen

2025-12-23: Physical Intelligence agents win Robot Olympics golds by fine-tuning

2025-12-21: Late-blooming generalists are found to overtake early specialists

2025-12-21: NitroGen learns to act from 40,000 hours of gameplay video

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The premium on specialization collapses
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