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Bissell: CCP bias is identifiable in Qwen and DeepSeek-R1 representation spaces
“Well, there's, there are certainly internal, yeah, parts of the representation space where you can sort of see where that lives.”
Mark Bissell Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 10:08 Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
Assertion Partly supported
Lambert: SimpleQA benchmark scores drop across reasoning models tested without tools
“You look at all the evals from reasoning models, and one of the trends is that, like simple QA numbers all drop. It's like DeepSeq R-one to the new R-one, it goes down. It's like all the new, like, QN-II to QN-III, simple QA goes down, at least when you're eva…”
Nathan Lambert Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 22:59 The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
Assertion Supported
Soldani: 2024 open models rival frontier performance of closed models
“You have models that are, you know, reveling frontier level performance of what you can get from closed models, from like Quen, from Deep Seek. We got Lama III.”
Luca Soldani Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 1:15 Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]
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