Do tech reports matter for PhD apps

A Reddit post asks whether tech reports for large models (not arXiv papers) — e.g. Kimi K3, DeepSeek, Gemini, Mistral Leanstral — carry similar weight to a first‑author A* paper in PhD applications, seeking community input.

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