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Benchmark

A standardized test used to compare models — coding, math, reasoning, knowledge.

Benchmarks are shared exams: sets of questions or tasks with known answers. Labs publish scores to claim progress. Useful for rough comparisons — but models can be tuned to specific tests, and a benchmark rarely looks like your work.

The best benchmark is your own: take five real tasks you do weekly and try them in two or three assistants.

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