AI in the news: June 20, 2026 — Small Model, Big Punch: The Post-Training Playbook
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A 3-billion-parameter model from a Chinese social media company's research team is matching systems 200 times its size on competition-level math — not by scaling up, but by using a smarter training recipe called Spectrum-to-Signal. Today's episode argues that post-training methodology is becoming the new decisive capability lever, and that the real beneficiaries of this shift may not be the open-source community — but the frontier labs with the scale to apply the same recipe to far larger models.
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