AI benchmarks

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 15, 2026 by Pavel Izmailov · across every show →

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Jan 15, 2026 neutral
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Izmailov: AI models can quickly max out defined benchmarks using RL
“And I think we are at the stage where if we define a benchmark and we can make a relevant RL environment, then we can kind of max it out pretty quickly, and so we are going through benchmarks now very, very quickly.”
Pavel Izmailov Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 26:42 The Evaluators Are Being Evaluated — Pavel Izmailov (Anthropic/NYU)
Jan 29, 2026 negative
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The AI industry is rapidly running out of challenging evaluation benchmarks
“The only thing is we are running out of is really benchmarks. So the improvement on benchmarks, it's kind of like harder to measure.”
Sebastian Raschka Jan 29, 2026 ▶ 37:56 State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
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