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    "text": "We are spending more and more compute on sort of like secondary monitoring. So you have, you know, you have all of the compute that is going into the primary system, you know, the agent that is like doing work. And then you have all of the compute that is going into monitoring, you know, the primary agent to make sure that it's like not taking too high risk of actions … If anything looks like, you know, maybe it's getting prompt injected and just like, you know, intervening with that. And the majority of our investment on the API stack is like, you know, actually going into the safety stack.",
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