Stop chasing AI benchmarks—create your own

Every few months, a new large language model (LLM) is anointed AI champion, with record-breaking benchmark scores. But these celebrated metrics of LLM performance—such as testing graduate-level reasoning and abstract math—rarely reflect real business needs or represent truly novel AI frontiers. For companies in the market for enterprise AI models, basing the decision of which models to use on these leaderboards alone can lead to costly mistakes—from wasted budgets to misaligned capabilities and potentially harmful...