Comment by paxys
8 hours ago
> its overall intelligence ranks second only to Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol
Pretty sure ranking “second” to two others means ranking third.
8 hours ago
> its overall intelligence ranks second only to Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol
Pretty sure ranking “second” to two others means ranking third.
Charitably, you could read this as "its overall intelligence [is in a class that] ranks second only to [that of]..."
This is actually what's meant but this bikeshed has been built for yak shaving.
Yeah, bad wording it seems. Though a charitable interpretation is that Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol are joint 1st place in the measurement.
Doesn’t matter, the next one is still third.
DENSE_RANK() vs RANK() claims another victim
If there are two folks standing at gold, nobody gets the silver medal.
But linearizing an equal magnitude quantities by alphabet priority would be unfair. Magnitude is the important quantity here.
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While you are technically correct, in English it’s perfectly fine to say it this way as well.
“Second only” here has meaning “next after”, not “number two”.
That’s not what second means in this context in English, and it’s incorrect to use it that way. This is because for something to be second there must have been something in first and only first, and so on; in this case there was a first and a second already, and you cannot amalgamate then because they didn’t tie (and even if they did, they’d be 1 and 2). Both logically and grammatically, it’s incorrect.
So... France took second to England and Argentina?
France’s football team is second only to England’s and Argentina’s.
It’s a miracle that in language same words have different meanings depending on context. If this wouldn’t be the case we could have hardcoded NLP algorithmically without inventing these expensive LLMs!
Second group essentially is how you have to think of it
Not if the others tie for first place.
Still third even then.
I think what's implied here, in colloquial terms, is that it's in the second tier.
Which is still great because it means neither of the two best financed labs in the world manage to produce even two models themselves that would beat Kimi K3.