Meta Cheated on AI Benchmarks and It’s a Glimpse Into a New Golden Age

Meta cheated on an AI benchmark, and that is hilarious. According to Kylie Robison at The Verge the suspicions started percolating after Meta released two new AI models based on its Llama 4 large language model over the weekend. The new models are Scout, a smaller model intended for quick queries, and Maverick, which is meant to be a super efficient rival to more well-known models like OpenAi’s GPT-4o (the harbinger of our Miyazaki apocalypse).

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