--- title: AI Companies Are Lying About How Smart Their Models Are description: Whenever a major AI company releases a new model, you'll notice they reference these "AI benchmarks" to showcase how much smarter and better at coding, math,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-companies-are-lying-about-how-smart-their-models-are-jl6hcxz0n twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Companies Are Lying About How Smart Their Models Are | daily.dev og:description: Whenever a major AI company releases a new model, you'll notice they reference these "AI benchmarks" to showcase how much smarter and better at coding, math,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-companies-are-lying-about-how-smart-their-models-are-jl6hcxz0n og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JL6HCxZ0n.png og:image:alt: AI Companies Are Lying About How Smart Their Models Are og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Companies Are Lying About How Smart Their Models Are **[Matt Wolfe](https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Whenever a major AI company releases a new model, you'll notice they reference these "AI benchmarks" to showcase how much smarter and better at coding, math, test-taking, etc. their model is. Well, in this video I expose how all of that is a bunch of bologna. Full video is linked here. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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