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Anthropic Co-Founder Tom Brown: Why Anthropic Models Are The Best at Coding "The benchmarks are so easy to game. All the other big AI labs have teams whose job it is to make the benchmark scores good. We don't have such a team. That is the biggest factor." Anthropic's... show more

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