Emad Mostaque says Gemma and Inkling are still far from the frontier
emollick · x · 2026-07-21
Emad Mostaque says Gemma is useful for some tasks but is nowhere near the frontier, and Inkling is also far from frontier-level performance.
He points to either the published stats or his own benchmark as evidence, reinforcing the claim that people often overestimate how close some popular open models are to the frontier.
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