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"Basalt Labs" pulling a generationally dumb scam. Incredibly stupid lmao. Claiming 99.44% on HLE with tools. Model they released is based on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and the model they're serving on their website is DeepSeek.

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Saturday, Jul 18, 2026 · 11:58AM
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