Meta Spark 1.1 Shows Surprisingly Strong Benchmark Performance
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-07-11
On a "vision + geolocation + knowledge" benchmark, the author noted that Meta Spark 1.1 performed surprisingly well:
- Second only to the Gemini 3.x series and Fable
- Even outperforming all OpenAI, Grok, and Chinese models the author has tested
- This task requires mapping locations to latitude and longitude coordinates, representing a challenging visual geographic reasoning task
The author also clarified that using a "hit within 10 miles" standard is necessary because factors like camera focal length make precise localization nearly impossible in some samples.
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