Synthetic data broke the data ceiling and accelerated AGI
DeepSeek and the Dominance of Open Source AI | Akash & Prime Intellect: Mined with CoinFund Ep. 19 (CoinFund)
“This paradigm shift is a game changer for training, and I think accelerated our AGI timeline significantly, because now we broke the data challenge.” — 00:12:50
Context: On R1’s two-model setup (a reasoning model generating synthetic data to train the actual model); he compares it to protein folding and self-driving simulation data.