Who is winning the AI race?
Claude Fable 5.2 (Anthropic) holds the Nov 2026 crown with a score of 93.9/100. Anthropic leads the cumulative provider race at 87.9. The timeline covers 18 months of releases, Jun 2025 to Nov 2026.
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.
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Gemini 4 Hydrogen
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Agentic
145 benchmarksCoding
75 benchmarksReasoning
39 benchmarksMultimodal
79 benchmarksKnowledge
67 benchmarksMultilingual
15 benchmarksInstruction Following
17 benchmarksMath
34 benchmarksQuestions
Who is winning the AI race right now?
Claude Fable 5.2 (Anthropic) holds the Nov 2026 crown with a score of 93.9/100. Anthropic leads the cumulative provider race at 87.9. The timeline covers 18 months of releases, Jun 2025 to Nov 2026.
How does BenchLM decide who holds the crown each month?
Each month groups the models released in that month by confirmed release date. The crown goes to the highest-scoring ranking-eligible release of the month on BenchLM’s overall index, which weights sourced benchmark evidence across coding, agentic, reasoning, knowledge, math, multimodal, instruction-following, and multilingual categories. Unranked releases are shown as tracked but cannot take the crown.
How is the provider race calculated?
The provider race is cumulative: for each provider it averages the top three scores among all ranked models released up to and including the selected month. Position changes compare that ordering with the previous month.
How often is the AI race timeline updated?
The timeline is rebuilt from BenchLM’s model catalog on every site build. Benchmark data was last verified on November 13, 2026; the newest month shown is Nov 2026.
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