Wang et al drop a new SoTA model and suddenly they become Dang et al
prajdabre · x · 2026-10-01
An AI-research pun making the rounds: as soon as Wang et al drop a new SoTA model, everyone else goes "Dang et al" — capturing the collective deflation rival labs feel at every new state-of-the-art release.
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