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Amazon’s AI chief has a message for the model benchmark obsessives: Stop looking at the leaderboards.

“I want real-world utility. None of these benchmarks are real,” Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s SVP of AGI, told me ahead of today’s announcements at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. “The only way to do real benchmarking is if everyone conforms to the same training data and the evals are completely held out. That’s not what’s happening. The evals are frankly getting noisy, and they’re not showing the real power …

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