# Bad Influence story: Institute of Foundation Models says PAN 2 ranks first among open models on two benchmarks

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-11 12:24. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/f4a4e635-5195-4be9-be8d-96fa5379d439

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Latest update (11-11 12:24): PAN 2 ranks as the top open model on Physics-IQ and RBench

Overview: The Institute of Foundation Models says its PAN 2 model ranks first among open models on Physics-IQ Verified and on its own RBench evaluation. The institute cites its RBench results as the basis for the ranking, and the report does not include scores or the rankings of closed models.

The institute releases PAN 2's open weights, training code and inference code under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face.

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1. 11-11 12:24 · X search: AI open-source releases · [PAN 2 ranks as the top open model on Physics-IQ and RBench](https://badinfluence.news/items/ey0iy5c7fmrfa5ltw1735xxki)
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