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Aarush Selvan: belief

18 Feb 2025 Latent Space The Inventors of Deep Research

“I think the markdown step definitely helps in terms of, you know, there's a lot of noise, like as you can imagine with the pure HTML.”

— Aarush Selvan

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Aarush Selvan
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belief
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18 Feb 2025
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Latent Space

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…Yeah, yeah. A bit of a follow-up on the, since you brought up context, I had two questions. One, do you have a HTML to markdown transform step? Or do you just consume raw HTML? There's no way you consume raw HTML, right? We have both versions, right? So there is, the models are getting, like every generation of models are getting much better at native understanding of these representations. I think the markdown step definitely helps in terms of, you know, there's a lot of noise, like as you can imagine with the pure HTML. JavaScript, WinCSS. Exactly. So yeah, when it makes sense to do it, we don't artificially try to make it hard for the model. But sometimes it depends on the kind of access of what we get as well. Like, for example, if there's an embedded snippet that's HTML, we want the model to, you know, to be able to work on that as well. And no vision yet, but. Currently no vision, yes. The reason I ask all these things is because I've done the same. Got it. Like I haven't done vision.…

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