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PhantomEnvironments: Training LLM Agents in Fictional Worlds

Training LLM agents with reinforcement learning (RL) is bottlenecked by environments, which must provide verifiable rewards, support long-horizon interaction, and scale cheaply. Existing approaches rely on costly human-curated data or on LLM-generated environments that risk hallucinations and benchmark contamination. We show that LLMs can instead be trained into capable search agents using…

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The ugly economics of consumer AI

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

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  • Per-consumer revenues remain below break-even point.
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