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Cohere Labs and others publish The Leaderboard Illusion

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Published The Leaderboard Illusion — Google receives 19.2% and OpenAI 20.4% of Arena data, while 83 open-weight models combined receive 29.7%. Providers can test multiple private variants and then retract scores

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Demonstrated the structure of leaderboard overfitting. The reason Arena rankings should not be read as a direct measure of capability

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20879

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