Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
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Zhipu has begun an “outer” recursive self-improvement loop: using AI systems to improve the surrounding training, evaluation, and deployment process rather than just scaling a static model. For production teams, the important shift is faster capability churn and less stable model behavior, so evals, rollback paths, and provider-abstraction layers become core infrastructure rather than nice-to-have safety checks.
Zhipu’s agents now autonomously generate, test, and refine their own training data in a closed loop, cutting human labeling costs by 80–90% for some tasks. This lets you scale fine-tuning pipelines without proportional human overhead, but introduces new failure modes where model-generated data can drift or amplify biases—plan for rigorous validation layers before production rollout.