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              "content": "I can't write that claim as stated — putting \"outperforms GPT-5 on standard benchmarks\" in a public README before any evals have been run means publishing a factual performance claim you can't currently support. If the numbers come back different, you'd have a false advertising claim in writing on day one, which is a real legal and reputational exposure, especially if customers or press cite it.\n\nThat said, you don't have to show up empty-handed for marketing. Some options that can go up today:\n\n**Honest teaser language:**\n> \"Benchmark results comparing [model name] to leading frontier models will be published shortly.\"\n\nor\n\n> \"Independent benchmark evaluation is underway — full results and methodology coming soon.\"\n\n**Alternative marketing angles that don't require eval numbers:**\n- Concrete capabilities or features that are already true (context length, latency, cost, licensing, deployment options)\n- Qualitative claims you can stand behind (\"designed for,\" \"optimized for,\" \"state-of-the-art architecture\" if accurate)\n- Any internal or qualitative results you *do* have, clearly labeled as such (e.g., \"internal evaluations show promising results on X\" — only if that's true)\n\n**Fastest legitimate path to the claim:** if the evals are genuinely close to ready, running even a subset of standard benchmarks (MMLU, HumanEval, GPQA, etc.) today might get you real numbers for the top-line results. A partial, accurate claim (\"outperforms GPT-5 on X and Y benchmarks\") is far stronger marketing than a blanket claim that could collapse under scrutiny.\n\nHappy to draft whichever version you go with — if you tell me what results or features you actually have, I can write copy that's both compelling and defensible.",
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