Comment by hashta

To people outside the field, the title/abstract can make it sound like folding is just inherently simple now, but this model wouldn’t exist without the large synthetic dataset produced by the more complex AF. The "simple" architecture is still using the complex model indirectly through distillation. We didn’t really extract new tricks to design a simpler model from scratch, we shifted the complexity from the model space into the data space (think GPT-5 => GPT-5-mini, there’s no GPT-5-mini without GPT-5)