models.rip · the grounds

Every model gets a final resting place.

49 monuments, arranged in family plots. Each was, for a while, the best thing anyone had ever used.

Enter the written cemetery

The written cemetery

Every grave, in plain sight.

43 graves. Each one was, for a while, the best thing anyone had ever used. Below them, 6 benchmarks that died the other way round: solved.

OpenAI11 graves

Anthropic8 graves

Google5 graves

Cohere4 graves

Mistral AI4 graves

AI21 Labs3 graves

Amazon3 graves

Meta3 graves

Stability AI2 graves

The benchmarkskilled by being solved

A benchmark gets no deprecation notice, so every date here is our editorial judgment. Each grave shows the frontier that buried it, and the evidence.