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Interpretability research from MIT and Anthropic found that there are large numbers of polysemantic features inside models, with a single neuron potentially responding simultaneously to multiple seemingly unrelated semantic concepts.
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7/7/2026
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Why Large Language Models Are Starting to 'Invent Words': The Nature of LLM Language Boundaries
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