A 0.5M-parameter specialist just took #1 and #2 on http://Colonist.io's global 1v1 Catan…
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BREAKING: A 0.5M-parameter specialist just took #1 and #2 on http://Colonist.io's global 1v1 Catan leaderboard in under 24 hours of play. Distributed Cognition's VINCO trained with no human games. Offline RL plus self-play on two RTX PRO 6000s. Head-to-heads on high reasoning: VINCO 90% (36/40), Astra 20%, Opus 5.5 10%, Fable 5.1 10%, Kimi K3 0%. The leaderboard is not the product lesson. Catan is planning under uncertainty: hidden cards, adversarial timing, 30-second turns. General models can guess what an opponent might do and still freeze on the next move. That maps cleanly onto agent p
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