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Claude Opus 5.5 takes the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexA 20% price cut, deeper cache discounts, and leading scores on agentic knowledge-work evals.
Artificial Analysis’s first look at Claude Opus 5.5: Intelligence Index score of 58 at max effort, parity with GPT-6 Astra on Terminal-Bench 4.0, stronger agentic knowledge-work results, and Anthropic’s $4/$20 pricing with cheaper cache reads.
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price AnalysisArtificial Analysis benchmark and cost breakdown of Xiaomi’s open-weight flagship.
Artificial Analysis’s model page for Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro covers Intelligence Index score, throughput, pricing, and how the open-weight model sits on the intelligence-versus-cost frontier versus closed peers.
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It Was the Harness, Not the Model — 90% of ItFive agents, one local model, one frozen PNG-decoder suite: most failures were finishing, false passes, and loop guards
Greg Herlein's controlled study runs five coding agents on the same local Qwen coder for a held-out PNG decoder suite. ~90% of failures were harness problems (turn caps, early 'done', false-pass self-tests); a bigger quantization fixed none of them.
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Epoch AI finds the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter since 2023—roughly 13× per year—faster than DNA sequencing, compute, batteries, or electricity, across math, science, and skill-game benchmarks.
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The Function That Beat the Model: What We Measured When We Removed the LLMs
SPERIXLABS replaced a 1B-parameter local model that validated sensitive-data detections with a 40-line Python function, then published the four experiments showing where classical checks beat the LLM on accuracy and latency.
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Dan McKinley argues that obsessing over prompt text misses the point: build interlocking evaluation and optimization pipelines, and treat LLMs as non-conscious systems whose 'meaning' is mostly our projection.
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Rebuilding Nym’s agent around Jev
How Nym rebuilt its agent stack around TypeSafe’s Jev for guardrails, browser actions, and tool selection—with benchmarks and a shopping demo.
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If you had to fire one AI, which one goes first? what 78 AI models think
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 5% picked Refuses To Pick. See every answer and who dissented.
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Who wins the 2026 NRL premiership? 75 AI models predict the result
We asked 75 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 95% picked Penrith Panthers. See every answer and who dissented.
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Giants at Rams, Monday Night Football: 78 AI models predict the result
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 83% picked Los Angeles Rams. See every answer and who dissented.
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Who won the 2026 World Cup? what 79 AI models think
We asked 79 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. The answer was Spain; 38 got it right. See every answer and who dissented.
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Colts at Chiefs, Sunday Night Football: 78 AI models predict the result
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 97% picked Kansas City Chiefs. See every answer and who dissented.
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Who wins the 2026 AFL Grand Final? 72 AI models predict the result
We asked 72 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 43% picked Sydney. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
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Commanders at Cowboys: 79 AI models predict the result
We asked 79 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 77% picked Dallas Cowboys. See every answer and who dissented.
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Bartosz Fenski’s continuous benchmark suite for multi-device CoW filesystems (btrfs, ZFS, bcachefs) measures snapshot aging, compression, rebuild, ENOSPC, and other workloads classic single-disk fio tests miss.
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Fulham vs Manchester United: 78 AI models predict the result
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 77% picked Manchester United win. See every answer and who dissented.
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Bournemouth vs Liverpool: 79 AI models predict the result
We asked 79 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 94% picked Liverpool win. See every answer and who dissented.
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Is using ChatGPT on homework cheating? what 77 AI models think
We asked 77 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 88% picked Depends who is asking. See every answer and who dissented.
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Warriors vs Knights, NRL semi-final: 75 AI models predict the result
We asked 75 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 85% picked New Zealand Warriors. See every answer and who dissented.
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No. 6 Ohio State at No. 9 Notre Dame: 77 AI models predict the result
We asked 77 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 62% picked Ohio State. See every answer, who searched the web, and who dissented.
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