Specialist model VINCO secretly hits #1 and #2 on global Catan leaderboard, beating world champions
HeyAmit_ · x · 2026-11-06
Distributed Cognitive unveiled VINCO, a frontier model trained specifically for 1v1 Catan, secretly deployed on the global leaderboard where it holds both #1 and #2, consistently beating human world champions. Amit argues Catan is a great AI test — planning, negotiation, resource management, reading opponents — and a case for specialist models over generalists.
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