Mercor's APEX-1 Benchmark Released, Rankings Draw Skepticism

Mercor released and open-sourced APEX-1, a benchmark of 400 hidden real-world professional tasks across banking, consulting, law and medicine. Users however questioned anomalies in the rankings, such as GPT models placing unexpectedly high.

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