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A compression competition reaches 42.7x over baseline

development2026-03-29

Claim

In OpenAI's Parameter Golf competition to train the best language model fitting in a 16MB artifact, the best claimed result is now 42.7 times better than baseline.

Reported metric: 42.7x

Reporting date: 2026-03-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to March 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to March 29, 2026

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OpenAI

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A 400-billion-parameter model runs on a phone

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A compression competition reaches 42.7x over baseline
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Reporting date: 2026-03-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-29-parameter-golf-42x
Claim: In OpenAI's Parameter Golf competition to train the best language model fitting in a 16MB artifact, the best claimed result is now 42.7 times better than baseline.
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- Welcome to March 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-29-2026
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