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Stop chasing model scores; your system architecture is the differentiator
◆ 85RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack1mo ago
OpenAI is signaling that peak performance is achieved through a proprietary "harness" rather than the model alone. You cannot rely on standard API calls to replicate headline-grabbing benchmark scores for your users. Focus your engineering efforts on the agentic infrastructure surrounding the model to create a defensible product.
Takeaways
- Benchmark-topping results come from custom harnesses, not just raw model weights.
- Your competitive advantage lies in the software layer surrounding the model.
- Don't expect "out-of-the-box" API calls to match lab-tested performance levels.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3
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