If you announce a model's benchmarks without releasing it (weights, product, api, etc "later"), feels like almost a sure thing that someone releases a better model in your category before you get it out.

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If you announce a model's benchmarks without releasing it (weights, product, api, etc "later"), feels like almost a sure thing that someone releases a better model in your category before you get it out.

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Nathan Lambert argued that developers who announce model benchmarks before making the model available risk having a competitor release a better model in the same category before their own launch. His warning applied to announcements that defer access to model weights, a product or an API until later; he described that competitive outcome as feeling like “almost a sure thing.”

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