@AfterQuery just moved an open model past the cost-accuracy frontier in finance. We post-trained @NVIDIAAI Nemotron 3.5 Super VL on expert credit tasks with @hebbia. Perfect solved: 47% to 74%. That beats Sol 6, and lands within 3 points of Astra 6, at about 1/7 the cost. Link to the full case study in replies.

Not all coding data is created equal. Using only 500 tasks from @AfterQuery's SWE agent dataset, our internal post-training team was able to improve Qwen3.8-27B-Medium by 11.3 points in only 15 steps of GRPO. Read more about our training experiment in the blog post linked in the comments.

Congratulations to the @motif_tech team on the release of Motif 3! AfterQuery is proud to have served as the sole data partner on this model.

Congrats to the @WeAreLegora team on the release of the Legora BAR, a benchmark for agentic legal work built on 5,161 real law firm cases across 28 practice areas! @AfterQuery helped QA the benchmark with Legora. Proud to work with their team on measuring the frontier of agentic legal work. Link to the full blog post in the replies.

Last Thursday, we hosted Poker Night at our SF office. Researchers, founders, and builders joined the @AfterQuery team for 3 things: 1. Poker. 2. Drinks. 3. Lively conversation. We're hosting more events soon. Comment if you want to join the next one ↓

See what your codebase could be worth. Introducing Atrium by @AfterQuery. We’re paying companies for their private codebases. Connect a repo, get an automated quality analysis in minutes, and receive a quote in days. Link in the replies.

Kimi K3 ranks #1 on @AfterQuery's SpreadsheetBench 2, surpassing Claude Fable 5. An open weight model now outperforms all closed-sourced models. Read more in the Kimi K3 blog and SpreadsheetBench 2 paper linked below. Congrats to the @kimi_moonshot team on the incredible model!

The @AfterQuery team is in Korea this week for ICML, but the best conversations didn’t happen in the conference halls. They happened around a chef’s table. This week, we partnered with @altosvc to bring together researchers, founders, and investors for an evening of great food, drinks, and meaningful conversation. More than 100 people joined us for the evening, with a special menu prepared by Culinary Class Wars Lim hee-won and cocktails from Zest, named Asia’s Best Bar in 2025. Huge thank you to @altosvc for partnering with us, and to all the attendees who made the event special. We look forward to hosting more events in the future that bring the AI research community together.

Introducing @LM_Arcade - play, rank, and submit AI generated games. Supported by @AfterQuery. Models generate games using several popular agentic harnesses. Since tools, agent loops, and scaffolding can meaningfully affect performance, we evaluate both the models and the harnesses rather than forcing every model into the same environment. Current top 3 models: @AnthropicAI Claude Fable 5, @OpenAI GPT-5.5, @AnthropicAI Claude Opus 4.7 Top 3 harnesses: @AnthropicAI claude-code, @AfterQuery aq-gaming, @Princeton mini-swe-agent. Blind voting: compare two game builds from the same prompt without knowing which model or harness created them. Vote for the one that’s more enjoyable and better matches the request. Bradley-Terry ratings: every vote updates the leaderboard in real time. Don't just read about performance. Determine it at lmarcade.com.

Congratulations to @nvidia on the release of Nemotron 3 Ultra! Ultra now leads GDPval-AA by a good margin among US open source models. @AfterQuery is proud to have provided the GDPval training data used to hill climb the benchmark.

As corporate "tokenmaxxing" efforts struggle to generate meaningful enterprise value and model capabilities begin to commoditize at the frontier with cheaper open source options quickly approaching in the rearview mirror, @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI are scrambling to assemble FDE armies with strategic PE partners to solve the last mile enterprise problem and sustain their exponential revenue growth. Read our full take on OpenAI’s DeployCo and Anthropic’s ServiceCo at afterquery.com/blog/deployco