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On October 28, 2026, Nathan Lambert put forward the view that the importance of organizational structure and team collaboration for building excellent LLMs is severely underestimated. He stated that the value of an efficient organization and team is equivalent to several times the compute, and cited team reorganizations at Llama, xAI and others as examples to explain that after organizational collapse, rebuilding is needed, which is also why he believes latecomers can still catch up. He also said that there are not many unique secrets to building models, and most of the gains come from sustained execution and wise use of compute. Currently, this view is reported by a single source, and there have been no subsequent developments.
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Nathan Lambert: Organizational structure is severely underestimated for building good LLMs
Nathan Lambert believes that the importance of organizational structure and team collaboration for building excellent LLMs is severely underestimated, and that the value of an efficient organization and team is equivalent to several times the compute. Citing team reorganizations at Llama, xAI, and other teams as examples, he explains that after an organizational collapse, things need to be rebuilt, which is also why he believes latecomers can still catch up. He also states that there are not many unique secrets to building models, and that most of the gains come from sustained execution and wise use of compute.