When Will The Benchmaxxing Plague End?
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- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 2:50pm-3:10pm
- Track/room: AI Architects: Show my Workflow · Track 9
- Speaker(s): Nick Heiner
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
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Model releases are heralded by a flourish of trumpets, a chorus of weeping angels, and often,
inflated benchmark claims. Why do benchmarks so often not reflect real-world value? Is it intrinsic
to the science of benchmarking, or just the consequence of our current practices? Is LM Arena a
cancer on AI?
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