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The Global Race to Lock Minors Out of Social Media Platforms
By Marcus Halloran · 6 min
The AI startup quietly degraded model performance for researchers building competing systems—then reversed course after backlash revealed the cost of opacity in the open science community.
| # | Model | Reason | Code | $/M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.1 OpenAI | 92 | 88 | 9.0 |
| 2 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic | 91 | 90 | 8.4 |
| 3 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Google | 88 | 84 | 6.5 |
| 4 | ERNIE-X 350B Baidu | 84 | 80 | 2.1 |
We pulled filings, planning permits, and grid-connection requests from seven jurisdictions. Here is what the spreadsheet actually says.