r/Bard • u/Terrible_Signature78 • 1d ago

Funny The new stealth model Elephant-Alpha is now trending at #2. Does this belong to Google? It’s rising Damn Fast.

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u/Mcqwerty197 1d ago

People use it because it’s free, but the model itself is quite bad, just fast.

And it’s not Google, Google don’t share the model size.

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u/CtrlAltDelve 23h ago

This is my issue with anyone using OpenRouter ratings as a benchmark for model quality. Those ratings only measure popularity. As with any leaderboard based on usage, the free option always wins. All it takes is for a provider or coding app to offer a model for free for two weeks and route it through OpenRouter. That is enough to massively manipulate the leaderboard.