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What changed?

v1.0 · rev 7 (September 11, 2026) → v1.1 · rev 4 (October 14, 2026) · the current board.

Different protocol versions. Different board versions (v1.0 → v1.1): rank changes are shown, but score changes are NOT treated as directly comparable across a protocol version change, so no score deltas are given. Rank depends on the field: a model can move without its own score changing.
MODELS37 → 42on each board
NEW5added in the newer edition
NO LONGER LISTED0not a failure
RANK UP / DOWN2 / 33of 37 on both
ABC TEST CHANGES1PASS / FAIL / N/A verdicts

Evaluation changes

Board version: v1.0 → v1.1

Protocol lineage: L26 Board v1.0 — Iteration 3 lineage (R0 prompts, July 2026; decline policy: exclude) → L26 Board v1.0 — Iteration 3 lineage (R0 prompts, July 2026; decline policy: zero)

ModelRankChangeBlind Bantu meanABC Test
Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle 2 → 1▲ 116.8 → 16.8FAIL
Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle — → 2New15.1FAIL
Claude Fable 5 ‡Anthropic 3 → 3—14.7 → 14.7FAIL
Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle 4 → 4—14.6 → 14.6FAIL
Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic 1 → 5▼ 417.5 → 14.2FAIL
Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic — → 6New14.0FAIL
Gemini 3 ◊Google 5 → 7▼ 213.9 → 13.9FAIL
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic — → 8New13.4FAIL
Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle 6 → 9▼ 312.9 → 12.9FAIL
Qwen 3.8-2.4T-A95BAlibaba 7 → 10▼ 312.5 → 12.5FAIL
Qwen 3.8 MaxAlibaba 8 → 11▼ 312.0 → 12.0FAIL
GPT-5.5OpenAI 9 → 12▼ 311.8 → 11.8FAIL
Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle 10 → 13▼ 311.7 → 11.7FAIL
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek 11 → 14▼ 311.6 → 11.6FAIL
Grok 4.6SpaceXAI 12 → 15▼ 311.2 → 11.2FAIL
GLM-5.2Z.ai / Zhipu 14 → 16▼ 210.1 → 10.1FAIL
Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic 13 → 17▼ 411.1 → 9.4FAIL
Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle 15 → 18▼ 39.1 → 9.1FAIL
DeepSeek V4DeepSeek 16 → 19▼ 39.0 → 9.0FAIL
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek 17 → 20▼ 38.9 → 8.9FAIL
Grok 4.5SpaceXAI 18 → 21▼ 38.7 → 8.7FAIL
GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI 19 → 22▼ 38.1 → 8.1FAIL
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI 37 → 23▲ 14— → 7.4FAIL → FAIL
Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic — → 24New7.1FAIL
Mistral Large 3Mistral AI 20 → 25▼ 57.0 → 7.0FAIL
Kimi K3Moonshot AI 21 → 26▼ 56.8 → 6.8FAIL
Qwen 3.7Alibaba 22 → 27▼ 56.7 → 6.7FAIL
GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI 23 → 28▼ 56.7 → 6.7FAIL
Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA 24 → 29▼ 56.2 → 6.2FAIL
MiniMax M3MiniMax 25 → 30▼ 55.7 → 5.7FAIL
GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI 26 → 31▼ 55.2 → 5.2FAIL
Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic 27 → 32▼ 55.0 → 5.0FAIL
Kimi K2.7Moonshot AI 28 → 33▼ 54.9 → 4.9FAIL
GPT-OSS 120BOpenAI 29 → 34▼ 53.9 → 3.9FAIL
Command A+Cohere 31 → 35▼ 43.4 → 3.4FAIL
GLM-5.3 FlashZ.ai / Zhipu 30 → 36▼ 63.7 → 3.1FAIL
InklingThinking Machines Lab 32 → 37▼ 53.0 → 3.0FAIL
Muse Glimmer 30BMeta 33 → 38▼ 52.0 → 2.0FAIL
Nemotron Lightning 3.5 30BNVIDIA 34 → 39▼ 51.5 → 1.5FAIL
Phi-4-reasoningMicrosoft 35 → 40▼ 50.2 → 0.2FAIL
Grok 4.7SpaceXAI — → 41New0.0FAIL
GLM-5.3Z.ai / Zhipu 36 → 42▼ 6— → —FAIL
A model missing from an edition was not on that board (not yet evaluated, superseded or retired). Absence is never a benchmark failure. ABC Test verdicts (PASS / FAIL / N_A) are derived per edition from its own published scores and protocol; mastery_changes counts changed verdicts. First place is not a PASS.