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    "text": "That expertise on use cases is also very valuable to Frontier Labs. We find that our evals and our Early Access Program partnerships actually help us a lot with Frontier Labs and it's something that we can exchange instead of extraordinary large commits. And I don't think the discount is ever worth the lost in optionality.",
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