The AI Race
Watch the AI race unfold
Scrub the timeline to travel through 18 months of model releases. See who held the crown, who climbed the ranks, and how the benchmark landscape evolved.
Aug 202619 releases
Monthly Race Snapshot
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Runner Up
Grok 4.6
xAI
63.41/ 100
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19 modelsProvider Race
Cumulative avg. top-3 score through Aug 2026Benchmark Health
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How fresh are the benchmarks we use to score models? Green means the benchmark is actively separating models. Red means scores are bunching up or the benchmark is outdated.
Agentic
82 benchmarks79 current3 refreshing
Coding
64 benchmarks60 current3 refreshing1 stale1 saturated
Reasoning
28 benchmarks24 current1 refreshing3 stale1 saturated
Multimodal
65 benchmarks60 current5 refreshing
Knowledge
46 benchmarks39 current3 refreshing4 stale1 saturated
Multilingual
13 benchmarks10 current2 refreshing1 stale
Instruction Following
4 benchmarks3 current1 stale
Math
32 benchmarks26 current3 refreshing3 stale
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