CG(@cgtwts):this is actually pretty wild. Distributed built VINCO, a model trained to play Catan, and it climbed to #1 and #2 on the global leaderboard while beating Claude and Kimi despite being 10,000,000x smaller. Looks like smaller specialist models are going to be a big deal.

2026.11.05 19:39

this is actually pretty wild. Distributed built VINCO, a model trained to play Catan, and it climbed to #1# and #2# on the global leaderboard while beating Claude and Kimi despite being 10,000,000x smaller. Looks like smaller specialist models are going to be a big deal.

distributed cognition@distcog

2026.11.05 18:00

We're excited to unveil VINCO, our frontier AI model trained to play and win 1v1 Catan. We've secretly deployed it on the global leaderboard, where it has reached both the #1# and #2# positions, consistently beating every human world champion.