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This blog post discusses work in a recently-published paper. However, this blogpost was primarily written by Parv Mahajan and Andy Wang, and several…
x Several frontier models are substantially prefill aware — LessWrong AI Frontpage 59 Several frontier models are substantially prefill aware by yeedrag , Parv Mahajan , David Africa , alexsouly , Jordan Taylor , RobertKirk 17th Jun 2026 6 min read 2 59 This blog post discusses work in a recently-published paper. However, this blogpost was primarily written by Parv Mahajan and Andy Wang, and several of the more speculative takes may not represent the all-things-considered view of the entire team. Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12747 TL;DR: We provide more conceptual grounding and ex
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