benchmaxxing

Verb

benchmaxx (third-person singular simple present benchmaxxes, present participle benchmaxxing, simple past and past participle benchmaxxed)

1. (derogatory, informal, artificial intelligence) To optimize an AI model's performance on a specific benchmark instead of general capability.
   • There are different ways companies are benchmaxxing. Some of them are outright cheating, like directly training on benchmarks.2025 December 15, Ben Dickson, “Why AI benchmarks are broken”, in TechTalks, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2026