big-model runs on the sim engine, whose whole vocabulary is the Greek
alphabet, cycled at a fixed rate until max_tokens. That is what it is for:
with no H100s it is the only thing exercising the TP8 two-node path, the
fabric invariant and rebuild-after-node-loss. The output is the point.
What was wrong is that nothing said so. /v1/models returned it with
owned_by "llmgw", identical to the real model, and the chat picker sorted
purely by name — so "big-model" led the list, was preselected by the
browser, and anyone who typed a question and pressed Send got Greek
letters back with no explanation. Reported as the model spitting out crap,
which is a fair reading of what it looks like from outside.
Simulated is derived from the profiles rather than configured: an operator
who adds a sim profile and forgets a flag would be shipping placeholder
text under a real model's name. A model counts as simulated only when
every profile is, because one real profile means the request can still
come back as inference.
The marker on /v1/models is owned_by "llmgw-sim", which is already what
the sim engine calls itself on its own /v1/models — the gateway was
flattening a distinction that existed one layer down.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
