Controversy over unreleased experimental Llama 4 Maverick behind Arena score
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Controversy arose because an unreleased experimental version was used for Llama 4 Maverick's Arena score. Meta denied allegations of training on test sets and attributed the issue to deployment timing
Why it matters
The mismatch between versions submitted to leaderboards and the publicly released ones became a public issue
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