The trick: Self-Marked
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The trick has a name
We call it Self-Marked: graded by the party that benefits from the grade. You'll see it again. Learn to spot it →
Receipts
- Supports latent.space:
Vals Index: #2 among open models, 66.1 score (matched Claude Opus 4.7)
- Refutes yottalabs.ai:
every stronger claim than that currently traces back to Alibaba's own press materials
- Context glbgpt.com:
the table mixes official model reports, system cards, public leaderboards, and Qwen's in-house evaluations
Open the Receipts Pack → What each source proves, every figure traced, and what would change our verdict.
