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Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M
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GoBench: Evaluating LLMs on the game of Go
Source: r/MachineLearning
September 16, 2026 · 2h ago
Summary
GoBench evaluates LLMs on 9x9 Go games against a ladder of KataGo opponents, from random to superhuman. It measures general reasoning ability, strongly correlates with ARC-AGI 2 (r=0.
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