{"slug": "are-you-being-benchmaxxed", "title": "​Are You Being Benchmaxxed?", "summary": "Forbes Councils member Katy Wigdahl warns that organizations risk being 'benchmaxxed' by relying on generic AI benchmarks that do not reflect real-world performance, urging them to evaluate models against their own specific use cases. Wigdahl notes that there is no universal winner in AI, only the model that performs best for a given task, and advises companies to design custom evaluation frameworks to avoid costly missteps.", "body_md": "# Are You Being Benchmaxxed?\n\nBy Katy Wigdahl, Forbes Councils MemberSource:\n\n[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)There is no universal winner in AI; there is only the model that performs best for your specific use case.\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-being-benchmaxxed", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/are-you-being-benchmaxxed-i4wb", "published_at": "2026-08-13 11:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 12:43:38.722994+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Forbes Councils", "Katy Wigdahl"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-being-benchmaxxed", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-being-benchmaxxed.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-being-benchmaxxed.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/are-you-being-benchmaxxed.jsonld"}}