Reinforcement Learning

I had intended to start this post by proclaiming &ldquo;2026 will be the year of reinforcement learning&rdquo; as 2025 is &ldquo;the year of agents&rdquo;&hellip; But model and research releases over the past several weeks indicate that it might be that &ldquo;H2 2025&rdquo; is when reinforcement learning for agentic AI really takes off. Open model releases such as Qwen3 (particularly the recent…