Charitably, you could read this as "its overall intelligence [is in a class that] ranks second only to [that of]..."
replyThis is actually what's meant but this bikeshed has been built for yak shaving.
replyYeah, bad wording it seems. Though a charitable interpretation is that Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol are joint 1st place in the measurement.
replyDoesn’t matter, the next one is still third.
replyDENSE_RANK() vs RANK() claims another victim
replyIf there are two folks standing at gold, nobody gets the silver medal.
replyBut linearizing an equal magnitude quantities by alphabet priority would be unfair. Magnitude is the important quantity here.
reply"Ranks second" is their statement. What is it's rank, in your opinion?
replyfrontier vs "not quite" :D
replyWhile you are technically correct, in English it’s perfectly fine to say it this way as well.
reply“Second only” here has meaning “next after”, not “number two”.
So... France took second to England and Argentina?
replyFrance’s football team is second only to England’s and Argentina’s.
replyIt’s a miracle that in language same words have different meanings depending on context. If this wouldn’t be the case we could have hardcoded NLP algorithmically without inventing these expensive LLMs!
Second group essentially is how you have to think of it
replyNot if the others tie for first place.
replyStill third even then.
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replyWhich is still great because it means neither of the two best financed labs in the world manage to produce even two models themselves that would beat Kimi K3.
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