New model 'very promising' on academic problems, researcher reports

RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-19

Replying to RexDouglass's skepticism, jonmellon says he can't speak to the model's general performance but that it looks "very promising" on the academic problems they've tried — detecting null-finding claims in abstracts, where prior cheap models were middling.

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