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.