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Benchmark Gaming — Clarity Today

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Benchmark Gaming

The practice of maximising reported evaluation scores through favourable run conditions, checkpoints, harnesses or re-runs, known in AI circles as benchmaxxing.

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OpenAI's post-launch edits doubled Astra's math lead over Anthropic's Fable

Vendor benchmark tables are dated snapshots, and the GPT-6 Astra launch shows how much can move inside one afternoon without the headline score changing, which matters for anyone scoring a purchase off one.

Publishers:fortune.com

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Hype gap+30
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