Because an LLM does not get smarter and it does not learn. It is fully cooked when it launches and only gets smarter with more training of some sort, a long, expensive, process that doesn't get phrased as "we thought the model would get smarter".
Ah, you think by "Luna would eventually get smarter" they meant that the model backing it would, without retraining, somehow improve? I figured they just meant they'd use newer models as they come out.
That's not how it reads, to me. But, I guess one could generously interpret it that way.
However, if it is a scientific experiment, then changing a primary variable in the middle seems like bad thing.
I don't actually think it's a scientific experiment, of course, I think it's a PR stunt. So, they can change the model all they want. Nobody's learning anything from this that you can't learn without burning $100,000.
How are we supposed to take these "labs" seriously when they clearly don't understand how the technology works at a rudimentary level?