[hughleat]

It can emulate the compiler (IR + passes -> IR or ASM).

> What would be more interesting is training a large model on pure (code, assembly) pairs like a normal translation task.

It is that.

> Presumably a very generalized model would be good at even doing the inverse: given some assembly, write code that will produce the given assembly.

Is has been trained to disassemble. It is much, much better than other models at that.