Tiny 500K-Parameter Model VINCO Tops Global Catan Leaderboard, Beating World Champions

Distributed Cognition unveiled VINCO, a 500K-parameter model trained specifically for 1v1 Catan, which anonymously topped the global leaderboard and defeated all human world champions. It also beat frontier LLMs like Claude Opus 5.5 and Kimi K3 with roughly a 90% win rate.

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