AI Foundations · Benchmark literacy after MMLU
You can read a 2026 model card, system card, or launch post and tell which document is doing which job — and where the spin sits.
Refreshed: May 2026.
When a frontier lab ships a model, they publish several documents at once, and the press treats them as interchangeable. They are not. Each has a different rigour, a different audience, and a different incentive to mislead. The literacy of this chapter is reading them as distinct artefacts.
Three lessons.
Chapter contains 3 lessons.