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The Frontier Model Landscape in 2035: Four Scenarios, Their Signals, and What Would Falsify Them

Two variables decide the frontier-model contest by 2035: how many labs stay near the frontier, and whether the public signal of leadership is benchmark score or deployment outcome. Four scenarios follow, each with a falsifier.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 20 min read

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Ten Failure Modes That Show Up Across Every Frontier Model, Not Just One

Leaderboards rank one model against another. They were never built to show what several of them do the same way, and ten failures recur across vendors no matter who is winning this quarter's chart.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 16 min read

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Model Evaluation

How to Actually Compare Frontier AI Models Without Building a Misleading Leaderboard

A benchmark score is a coordinate, not a verdict — it names a model snapshot, a harness, a sampling setting, a prompt template, and a date. Drop three of those five and the number stops meaning anything comparable.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 14 min read

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