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Research noteMD-2026-0182

Model cards have stopped being useful

The format survived. The candour did not.

5 minOpen-Source AI Models

Early model cards documented known failure modes and training data composition. Current ones increasingly document benchmark scores and intended use, which is marketing in a standard layout.

The information that matters for deployment — where the model is weak and on what data it was trained — has migrated to third-party evaluations and community testing.

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