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Today’s frontier progress is increasingly driven by test-time workloads and software development surrounding AI rather than just raw model training, according to Gupta.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Cisco now sells custom-designed networking chips as raw components, as well as complete systems and switches and routers with chips built in.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
The book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is "so raw and revealing" it has "sparked a bitter war of words" between the King and Diana's brother, the paper says.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Expert Mapelli said it was not even clear how much steel the site should ideally be producing or where the raw materials would come from.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Never had she felt her monster so close, so raw and angry that it seemed remarkable that it hadn’t simply torn through her flesh and attacked on its own accord.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
“You don’t get much rawer than there. That can be attractive - if you want to see real life.”
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2024
It’s rawer than I’d grown accustomed to thinking about your music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
When he was approached by Sony in 1998, Robison signed with its Lucky Dog imprint, which was devoted to rawer country.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
"Hatred is the rawest, smelliest, most awful thing that anyone stood in the middle of," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
For six tumultuous years, director Nico Ballesteros followed Ye at close range, capturing the artist’s rawest highs and lowest lows in the new documentary “In Whose Name?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
It’s genuinely therapeutic to just peel back all the layers and say the rawest, realest version of your truth.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
Fatoumata Diawara, from Mali, rides a galloping six-beat modal groove topped by the Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca in “Blues,” which is by far the rawest song on her new album of international fusions, “London Ko.”
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
The files on the murders of the Osage contained history in its rawest form: bits of data vacuumed up without any chronology or narrative, like a novel whose pages were out of order.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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