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Why do we still size LLMs based on static leaderboards instead of token economics and VRAM footprints?

Hey everyone, Like a lot of developers building AI applications, I spent months looking at standard leaderboards (Chatbot Arena Elo, GPQA, etc.) to figure out which foundation model to use. But when it came time to actually push to production, the leaderboard scores stopped mattering—and the infras…

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  1. 2026-10-27 12:20 · r/OpenAI
    Why do we still size LLMs based on static leaderboards instead of token economics and VRAM footprints?

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