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Netflix's plain-text recommender won on 40x fewer labels, and the bill moved rather than vanished
GenRec, a fine-tuned open-weight model that reads watch history as text, beat Netflix's hand-built pipeline offline and in a live A/B test. The gains are small; the cost story is the interesting one.
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Reality
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- Hype gap+13
- Incentives66
- Confidence48