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Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks
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Alibaba Qwen3.7 slowly fading into irrelevance at the frontier due to proprietary stance. In it's place we have Minimax M3 and... *checks notes* Rio 3.5 397b, made by the municipal IT company of Rio de Janeiro's city government. huggingface.co/prefeitura-rio…
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- Praise: The funding of a fine-tuned model by a city government highlights innovative applications of AI in public services, potentially setting a precedent for other municipalities.
- Praise: The use of the SwiReasoning framework in Qwen demonstrates advancements in model architecture that could enhance reasoning capabilities in AI applications.
- Concern: Benchmarks in AI are often gamed, making them unreliable indicators of true model performance, which raises concerns about the validity of claims made by smaller teams.
- Concern: The practice of 'benchmaxxing' suggests that many in the community are skeptical about the authenticity of performance claims, undermining trust in benchmark results.