Ornith-1.0: A New Kind of Leaderboard Contender—or Just Smarter Reward Hacking?

Ornith-1.0, released by DeepReinforce.ai in late June, reported strong benchmark results: the 397B variant achieved 77.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 82.4 on SWE-Bench Verified, outperforming Claude Opus 4.7 and comparable open models of similar size. Is Ornith just another leaderboard contender, or does it …
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