๐๏ธ Smol AI WorldCup: A 4B Model Just Beat 8B โ Here's the Data
We evaluated 18 small language models from 12 makers on 125 questions across 7 languages. The results challenge the assumption that bigger is always better.
โ A 1.3B model fabricates confident fake content 80% of the time when prompted with nonexistent entities. Qwen3 family hits 100% trap detection across all sizes.
โ Qwen3-1.7B (1.2GB) outscores Mistral-7B, Llama-3.1-8B, and DeepSeek-R1-14B. Latest architecture at 1.7B beats older architecture at 14B.
What makes this benchmark different?
Most benchmarks ask "how smart?" โ we measure five axes simultaneously: Size, Honesty, Intelligence, Fast, Thrift (SHIFT). Our ranking metric WCS = sqrt(SHIFT x PIR_norm) rewards models that are both high-quality AND efficient. Smart but massive? Low rank. Tiny but poor? Also low.
We evaluated 9 SOTA models (GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro, etc.) across 1,800 assessments in FINAL Bench and found a 39.2%p gap between "recognizing potential errors (MA=0.694)" and "actually finding and fixing them (ER=0.302)."
MARL (Model-Agnostic Runtime Middleware for LLMs) was built to close this metacognitive gap. It decomposes a single LLM call into a 5-stage expert pipeline (Hypothesis โ Solver โ Auditor โ Adversarial Verifier โ Synthesizer), transforming "answer in one shot" into "think, doubt, correct, and rewrite."
No weight modification โ works instantly with GPT-5.4, Claude, Gemini, Llama, or any OpenAI API-compatible LLM by changing one line: base_url. Ships with 9 domain-specific emergence engines (invention, pharma, genomics, chemistry, ecology, law, and more โ 5,538 expert data items) activated by a simple tag like model="gpt-5.4::pharma".
pip install marl-middleware
MARL is also officially registered on ClawHub, the skill marketplace of OpenClaw โ an AI agent platform with 260K+ developers and 3,200+ skills. It's the first middleware in the Reasoning Enhancement category. One command โ clawhub install marl-middleware โ gives your AI agent a metacognition upgrade.
Most generative AI training data is crawled without consent. Your text gets summarized, images reprocessed, videos clipped โ with no way to prove you're the original creator. Existing watermarks are either visible or wiped out by a single AI preprocessing pass.
Detect Before, Track After
Pre-embed โ Detect theft without any watermark. Text plagiarism check, image similarity analysis (perceptual hash, SSIM, color histogram, feature matching), and video temporal matching catch copies, edits, and excerpts.
Post-embed โ Embed invisible multi-layer watermarks. If one layer is destroyed, others survive independently. Even full removal leaves forensic traces as evidence.
Text: 4 Independent Layers
Four mechanisms work simultaneously: zero-width Unicode characters at morpheme/word boundaries (Korean Kiwi + English NLP), style fingerprinting via synonym-ending-connective substitution, SHA-256 timestamped evidence packages, and punctuation-anchored micro-marks. Each layer uses a different Unicode category, so attacks on one cannot eliminate the others. Full bilingual support, zero readability impact.
34-Attack Defense
7 categories, 34 attacks simulated: Unicode normalization, invisible character removal, homoglyph substitution (9,619 confusables), and AI rewriting. Each scored on Signal (watermark survival) + Trace (forensic evidence of attack) โ proving deliberate removal even when watermarks are destroyed.
Image & Video
Images: DCT frequency-domain watermarks surviving JPEG compression and resize. Videos: keyframe watermarking with temporal propagation and majority-vote extraction. Both support pre-embed similarity detection.
Who Is This For
Creators, rights holders needing legal evidence, media companies, and organizations tracking document leaks. Korean/English bilingual, open source, Gradio-based.