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Abhishek Shankar's Blog · May 13, 2026

The Frontier Stopped Being the Model

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The May 12, 2026 alphaXiv trending feed has zero new-model papers in the top twenty. The unit of progress in AI has moved out of the pretrain and into the loop — distillation pipelines, self-evolving agent runtimes, discovered test-time procedures. This piece argues the frontier-lab moat shrinks to the distillation step, with three falsifiable predictions for the next twelve months.

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