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Build the Gym, Not the Dataset

Stefano Fiorucci (X, LinkedIn, GitHub) is an AI/Software Engineer at deepset, where he contributes to the open-source LLM framework Haystack. At AI Engineer Europe 2026, he made a case that the next leap for open-source language models isn't better datasets -- it's better environments. The kind where models can act …