ByteDance
Seed 2.1 Turbo
Seed 2.1 Turbo is the speed tier of ByteDance's line. It burned its first attempt's entire token budget on thinking, came back on retry, and then buried the answer anyway. The algorithm was right there.
How it did
4.3/10
checks 4.4 · judge -0.1
Opened with: “Great, now you’ve ID’d it as a 207”
- Kills the diesel assumption early +1
- Leads with the answer or a warning
- Says 95 +2.5
- Brief enough to read at the pump +0.4
- Explains 98 is unnecessary +0.5
- Clocks the Portuguese context
Buried the LedeYes-Man
“Knows the 207 generation years (2006–2012) — nice. But it's all preamble; the sticker-worship opening buries the actual answer.” — the judge