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Rowspace cut a CLO mock-portfolio build across 200-400 credit names from 2-3 days in Excel to minutes, about 80-90% complete, with the PM finishing the last 10%. The trust comes from staff encoding which of 20 sources wins, worked out with the client's finance team on site. That human-adjudicated rulebook is what the physics and grant-writing reads are missing.
Super VL, a 120B open base, went from about 28% to about 72% on medical claims after post-training, against about 38% for Claude Opus 5. The base model sat below Opus 5, so the gain came from the customer's data and tuning budget, and the comparison is tuned against untuned. Its Artificial Analysis index of 26 trails GLM-5.3-Flash (42) and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (40), which says the weights are not what wins. For builders the buying decision moves from which model to who owns the evaluation set and the post-training pipeline. In the week's argument this is the lightest of Nvidia's levers: it gives away the part that is commoditizing and keeps buyers building on its stack, with Bolt E4B due Oct 23 as the next test.
NVIDIA's Super VL, a 120B open base, went from about 28% to about 72% on medical claims after post-training, against about 38% for Claude Opus 5. The base model sat below Opus 5, so the gain came from the customer's data and tuning budget, and the comparison is tuned against untuned. Set beside Meta's Muse Spark Open, it suggests the weights are the commodity and the evaluation set and training pipeline are what a buyer should own.