Comment by Aurornis
2 days ago
Claims about Ox Alpha performing at Fable level were from the social media hype cycle. Everything new in the LLM space brings a wave of influencers hyping it up as a revolutionary leap forward. Don’t forget to like and subscribe to learn more.
It is a capable small model, but it’s not frontier level. The interesting part will be seeing the model size, how it responds to quantization, and how fast it runs on the kind of non-server hardware that we can buy without selling a kidney.
> Claims about Ox Alpha performing at Fable level were from the social media hype cycle.
They claim an "independent community benchmark" (pass-fail evaluation on tasks) here: https://oxalpha.com/ox-alpha-vs-fable-5
That's a fake slop hype website.
I think so much of this is people greenfield-ing things as benchmarks, which is nearly always a success case for any AI these days.
This influencers are getting paid, it's not coincidential.
They don't have to be getting paid. The natural bias of media is towards laziness and sensationalism (stolen from Jon Stewart, so maybe the same is true about comments).