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The Information reports slowing gains for OpenAI's Orion

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Report that OpenAI Orion's performance gains were slowing

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Ignited the scaling-wall debate

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Presstechcrunch.comhttps://techcrunch.com/2024/11/09/openai-reportedly-developing-new-strategies-to-deal-with-ai-improvement-slowdown

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