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German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German

Soofi S 3.0 is a bilingual 30-parameter open-source model tainted by training data contamination. The German consortium behind the model acknowledged that GPQA benchmark questions accidentally leaked into the training corpus, prompting a recalculation of all evaluation scores. This incident highlights ongoing dataset leakage challenges that developers must navigate when auditing open-weight models for true generalization capabilities.

The Decoder·Jul 24, 2026

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