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    "text": "I don't know if that's surprising, but it is, you know, as I said, a lot of ex-founders doing a lot of bottoms up, you know, very exciting ideas. You know, for example, decisions API, you know, came together very quickly. We realized like we have a really good model with Luna. We can just do some, you know, constraint sampling and then, you know, have it, you know, shipped as like a different shape to the Responses API. And then, you know, when we do that, you know, it's like, it's faster and it's quite delightful for some cases. And it's just, if you were to like, … the hood, you realize like, okay, there's this … channel that came together. You know, initially, it was like four people kind of hacking on it on the weekend.",
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