Darwin: evolving a 180B parent model by changing 0.02% of it
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TL;DR — Darwin-180B-RSI keeps its parent's 512 routed experts, router and vision encoder intact and modifies about 0.02% of the parameters. VIDRAFT's Darwin framework treats an open model as a "parent", diagnoses its weak paths, and strengthens only those — here combined with recursive self-improve…
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- 2026-09-29 12:20 · DEV Community — AI
Darwin: evolving a 180B parent model by changing 0.02% of it