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A company whose first demo was completely fraudulent announces that its model beats GPT-5.5, on its own benchmark? I’m gonna wait a little before I trust this.

This whole company seems to optimize for raising money and impressing VCs. Lying about their products, ignoring consumer market to target enterprise, bragging about how they work their employees like slaves, and writing these posts full of intimidating technical jargon...

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To be fair it does seem like most AI startups are now like this (particularly when it comes to constantly mentioning how hard they work and ignoring consumer markets).

> it does seem like most AI startups are now like this

Remember when AGI was going to replace all jobs in 6 months? It's always been like that.

> "A company whose first demo was completely fraudulent"

Could you expand on this?

Link for this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40008109

Is it just me or does all that* seem pretty tame by today’s standards? Not saying it’s right, but it barely raises eyebrows. Sounds like a pretty typical startup demo.

* Based on the first comment in the link that claims to summarize the video.

This is inevitable when the primary incentive is to raise aggressively. Overall I dont find cognition blogs that jargony, there are definitely worse offenders

I highly respect many people at cognition but yeah that's put a sour taste in my mouth.

I want to work in the AI space on actual AI research, at any part of the stack. Even if I'm developing training infra - as long as people are advancing knowledge of what intelligence could be.

But it seems like either it's big labs or grifters, that's it, and even the big labs, at least publicly, seem very grifty at times. Not like I have the technical chops probably, but still.

Would love to see these companies use benchmarks done by third parties.

they are right there? it shows swe-bench multilingual and terminal bench

What happened ?

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