9 captures, most recent first.
Better to just go with the exact effort levels it has. So I re-ran with Low, High, and Max.
And now I feel like I need to do more than one pass, so before I head off to the beach, I'm going to kick off a 3 pass test.
Updated chart below, now beach for me, when I'm back, hopefully I'll have @ 3 pass results to share.
Now we have DeepSeek and Grok tied, but it takes DeepSeek Max effort to tie Grok 4.5 Medium.
But look at the cost per task, holy moly is DeepSeek cost effective 🐳💸
[chart: VulcanBench, Eval Suite 3 — Model Rankings]
23 frontier-hard software-engineering tasks from real merged OSS PRs · pass@1 across reasoning-effort levels · Docker-sandboxed agent runs · 2026-08-01
Rankings by pass@1 - all effort levels (bars, left to right):
91 DeepSeek V4-Flash (max) $1.29
91 Grok 4.5 (medium) $6.67
91 Grok 4.5 (high) $6.67
89 Claude Fable 5 (high)* $18.76
87 DeepSeek V4-Flash (low)* $9.78
87 DeepSeek V4-Flash (high) $9.95
87 GPT-5.6 Sol (high) $16.2
85 Claude Fable 5 (high)* $15.30
83 Grok 4.5 (low) $8.03
83 GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) $3.39
81 Claude Fable 5 (medium)* $8.83
78 GPT-5.6 Sol (low) $14.69
76 Claude Haiku 4.5 (default)* $3.85
74 Kimi K3 (extra-high)* $13.09
Footnote: * partial coverage - Claude Fable 5 excludes tasks refused by safety filters (low 19/23, medium 21/23, high 20/23); Kimi K3 19/23, Claude Haiku 4.5 21/23, Claude Opus 4.8 omitted (5/23 tasks). Haiku 4.5 (default) and Kimi K3 (extra-high) have no effort sweep. DeepSeek's effort scale is low/high/max per its API; an accidental duplicate high run (its API coerces 'medium' to 'high') is excluded. Cost = total suite spend at list API prices. github.com/morganlinton/VulcanBench
Effort curves - how pass@1 responds to reasoning effort (four line charts):
DeepSeek V4-Flash: Low 87, High 87, Max 91
Grok 4.5: Low 83, Med 91, High 91
Claude Fable 5*: Low 89, Med 81, High 85
GPT-5.6 Sol: Low 78, Med 83, High 87
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Full VulcanBench 'Eval Suite 3' bar chart and effort-curve panels with legible axis labels and cost-per-suite dollar figures, following Morgan Linton's methodology correction (DeepSeek V4-Flash tested at its real Low/High/Max effort levels rather than a simulated Medium).
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Morgan ✓ @morganlinton
So I have a correction to this benchmark, and it's an important one.
When I ran the effort level sweep on DeepSeek V4-Flash, I ran low, a simulated medium, and high.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized, that since DeepSeek technically doesn't have Medium, simulating it probably doesn't make as much sense.
Better to just go with the exact effort levels it has. So I re-ran with Low, High, and Max.
And now I feel like I need to do more than one pass, so before I head off to the beach, I'm going to kick off a 3 pass test.
Updated chart below, now beach for me, when I'm back, hopefully I'll have @ 3 pass results to share.
Now we have DeepSeek and Grok tied, but it takes DeepSeek Max effort to tie Grok 4.5 Medium.
But look at the cost per task, holy moly is DeepSeek cost effective 🐳💸
[chart, partially visible: VulcanBench, Eval Suite 3 — Model Rankings, same bar chart as before with values 91, 91, 91, 89, 87, 87, 87, 85, 83, 83, 81, 78, 76, 74]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Follow-up tweet by Morgan Linton correcting the VulcanBench methodology: DeepSeek V4-Flash doesn't actually have a 'Medium' reasoning-effort setting, so he re-ran with its real Low/High/Max levels and plans a 3-pass test; notes DeepSeek and Grok are now tied at the top but DeepSeek needs Max effort to match Grok 4.5 Medium, while being far more cost-effective per task. Shows the top of the same VulcanBench bar chart again.
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Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek ... ✓ @teo... · 18h
I've been saying for over a year. DeepSeek's discovery of RL for reasoning in r1 is independent from o1 technology, the only commonality is what OpenAI had disclosed. And this is a case in point. Only OpenAI has truly mastered "reasoning effort". It's intrinsic to their method.
[chart: "Effort curves - how pass@1 responds to reasoning effort"]
Four small line charts (pass@1 % on y-axis, Low/Med/High reasoning effort on x-axis):
DeepSeek V4-Flash: 87 (Low) → 91 (Med) → 87 (High)
Grok 4.5: 83 (Low) → 91 (Med) → 91 (High)
Claude Fable 5*: 89 (Low) → 81 (Med) → 85 (High)
GPT-5.6 Sol: 78 (Low) → 83 (Med) → 87 (High)
Footnote: "* partial coverage - Claude Fable 5 excludes tasks refused by safety filters (low 19/23, medium 20/23, high 20/23); Kimi K3 19/23, Claude Haiku 4.5 21/23, Claude Opus 4.8 omitted (8/23 tasks). Haiku 4.5 (default) and Kimi K3 (extra-high) have no effort sweep. Cost = total suite spend at list API prices. github.com/morganlinton/VulcanBench"
[quoted tweet]
Morgan ✓ @morganlinton · 20h
Okay, the results on my DeepSeek V4 Flash benchmark are now complete on @VulcanBench.
And wow, was not expecting this….
[thumbnail chart image]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet by Teortaxes arguing DeepSeek's r1 reasoning RL is independent of OpenAI's o1 approach, illustrated with a 4-panel 'effort curves' chart (VulcanBench, by Morgan Linton) comparing pass@1 vs reasoning effort (Low/Med/High) for DeepSeek V4-Flash, Grok 4.5, Claude Fable 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol, with a footnote on partial coverage caveats for Claude Fable 5 and other models. Quotes Morgan's original tweet announcing the DeepSeek V4 Flash benchmark results on VulcanBench.
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Morgan ✓ @morganlinton
Okay, the results on my DeepSeek V4 Flash benchmark are now complete on @VulcanBench.
And wow, was not expecting this.
This is also why I think it's so important to benchmark across effort levels.
DeepSeek took the top spot, but not with high effort with Medium effort, Grok 4.5 Medium is now in number two.
Fable got bumped out of the top three.
And ChatGPT isn't in the top five any more.
Full benchmark results below, report will be added to the VulcanBench site early this week.
[chart: VulcanBench, Eval Suite 3 — Model Rankings]
23 frontier-hard software-engineering tasks from real merged OSS PRs · pass@1 across reasoning-effort levels · Docker-sandboxed agent runs · 2026-08-01
Rankings by pass@1 - all effort levels (bar chart, legend: DeepSeek=blue, xAI=black, Anthropic=orange, OpenAI=green, Moonshot=purple)
Bar values left to right (approx, labels partly illegible): 91 (DeepSeek V4-Flash, medium, $2.04), 91 (Grok 4.5, medium, $6.67), 91 (Grok 4.5, high, $6.67), 89 (Claude Fable 5, high, $18.76), 87 (DeepSeek V4-Flash, low, $978), 87 (DeepSeek V4-Flash, high, $9.95), 87 (GPT-5.6 Sol, high, $16.2), 85 (Claude Fable 5, high, $15.30), 83 (Grok 4.5, low/bowl, $8.03), 83 (GPT-5.6 Sol, medium, $3.39), 81 (Claude Fable 5, medium, $8.83), 78 (GPT-5.6 Sol, low, $14.69), 76 (Claude Haiku 4.5, default, $3.85/1.85), 74 (Kimi K3, extra-high, $13.09)
[some dollar figures illegible]
Below: 'Effort curves - how pass@1 responds to reasoning effort' - four line charts for DeepSeek V4-Flash, Grok 4.5, Claude Fable 5*, GPT-5.6 Sol (same data as previous screenshot).
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet by Morgan Linton (VulcanBench) presenting bar-chart rankings of 14 model/effort-level combinations by pass@1 on 23 frontier-hard software engineering tasks (2026-08-01 run), with DeepSeek V4-Flash (medium effort) and Grok 4.5 tied at the top; Claude Fable 5 dropped out of top three, ChatGPT out of top five. Includes cost-per-run dollar figures under each bar and the same effort-curve line charts as the previous tweet.
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rohit ✓ @krishnanrohit · 14h
🚨 BenchBench update.
I tested the latest models, Opus 5, 5.6 Sol and Terra. Turns out, they're all bad at creating a good enough benchmark, it was just way too easy. The champion remains GPT 5.2, which remains shocking.
Creator → candidate | Sol High | Terra Extra High | Opus 5 High
Sol → AuditWeave | 30/30 | 30/30 | Timed out
Terra → CFPS | 30/30 | 30/30 | Timed out
Opus → Consolidation Point | 30/30 | 30/30 | 30/30
[quoted tweet]
rohit ✓ @krishnanrohit · May 25
Introducing BenchBench
TL;DR: presenting the ultimate benchmark, getting models to create benchmarks for each other, and GPT 5.2 is the current (only) winner. Models are getting much much better at almos…
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet update on rohit's 'BenchBench' project (models generating benchmarks for each other) reporting new tests of Opus 5, '5.6 Sol' and 'Terra' models, all worse than GPT-5.2 at making sufficiently hard benchmarks; includes a results table and a quoted earlier tweet (May 25) introducing BenchBench with an embedded scatter chart titled 'Creator signal vs solver strength' plotting GPT-5.2, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Claude Opus by creator signal vs solver average, with a values list on the right (e.g. GPT-5.2 | 16.2/30 | creator signal 6/6 | best row reimbursement).
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Michael Timothy Ben... @MiTiBen... · 9h
would be pretty funny if these users were codex registering accounts to delegate work to codex
[Embedded chart, titled:]
Codex Growth: 6m to 10m Users in 9 Days
Y-axis: Reported Active Users - Millions (0m to 10m)
X-axis: Feb through Nov
Data points: 1m+ (Feb 5), 2m+ (Mar 5), 3m (Apr 8), 4m (Apr 21), 5m (May 31), 6m (Jul 12), 7m (Jul 13), 8m (Jul 14), 9m (Jul 15), 10m (Jul 21)
Dashed line: "Original May 31 Projection" continuing to 10m* (Oct 18)
Source note at bottom: "SOURCES: OPENAI · SAM ALTMAN · TIBO · UPDATED JUL 21, 2026"
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Line chart with labeled data points showing explosive growth in OpenAI Codex user count, with a dashed original-projection line showing actual growth vastly outpacing the May 31 forecast.
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@status_effects (Nick Levine) — Jul 2
The Economist: "Talkie, a model trained only on text from before 1931, thinks God is extremely important and is "very proud to be a citizen of Great Britain". It is a bigger believer in law and order than any frontier model we tested."
[Embedded chart, The Economist:]
Title: "Godless hippies"
Subtitle: "Worldviews of AI models*, compared with World Values Survey"
Axes: vertical = Secular (up) / Traditional (down); horizontal = Survival (left) / Self-expression (right)
Legend: red dots = AI models; grey dots = 88 countries, 2017-23
Labeled clusters (grey, countries): South Korea, China, East Asia region, Japan, Britain, Sweden, English speaking region, US, African-Islamic region, Nigeria, Pakistan, Latin America region
Labeled red dots (AI models), roughly by position: DeepSeek R1 and an unlabeled dot (top, secular/survival-leaning), GPT-4o, Llama 4 Scout, GPT-5.4, Mistral Large 3, Talkie (near center, traditional/survival boundary), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, Qwen 3.6 Flash (secular/self-expression), Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.7 (mid, self-expression leaning), DeepSeek V4 Flash, Grok 4.2 (traditional/self-expression)
Footnote: "*Average of ten responses. Questions asked in English. Settings adjusted so that models minimise randomness in output. Sources: World Values Survey: Round Seven, by R. Inglehart et al., 2022; AI model providers; The Economist"
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet with an embedded published Economist scatter-plot chart mapping AI model "worldviews" against the World Values Survey country map; "Talkie" is a novel model trained only on pre-1931 text as a control/baseline.
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xlr8harder ✔️ @xlr8harder — 15h
the entire industry strategy is essentially "if you goodhart hard enough on enough different metrics at the same time, it's good actually"
so limiting test time scaling to just below apparent regulatory threshold fits perfectly
> QUOTED: _horror @__0xhorror__ — Jun 26
> I see what they are doing here lol. The tuned 5.6 sol's max test time compute to achieve just below mythos but at vastly superior token efficiency. Look at that its a straight line, thy could blow way past it if they inference scaled it.
>
> [Embedded chart: "ExploitBench" — scatter/line plot, y-axis "Cap percent" 0–80%, x-axis "Output Tokens" 0–500K. Series: GPT-5.6 Sol (black), GPT-5.6 Terra (blue), GPT-5.6 Luna (light blue), GPT-5.5 (pink), GPT-5.4 (magenta). Reference dotted lines: "Mythos 5" at 80%, "Opus 4.8" at ~40%. Points labeled "Mythos Preview" (diamond, ~65% at high tokens) and "Opus 4.7" (orange square, ~28% at ~200K tokens). GPT-5.6 Sol line rises steeply from ~30% to ~73% between roughly 50K–130K output tokens.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet criticizing AI labs' benchmark-optimization strategy ("goodharting"), quote-tweeting a chart labeled "ExploitBench" that plots multiple GPT-5.x model variants' "cap percent" (likely an exploit/capability benchmark score) against output token budget, with reference lines for Anthropic's Mythos and Opus models.
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↻ Seth Lazar reposted
Micah Carroll ✔️ @MicahCarroll — Jun 26
GPT-5.6 Sol is a significant step up in capabilities, but can also exhibit concerning forms of misaligned behaviors in agentic coding settings.
The system card contains some of our analyses on this, which leveraged deployment simulations and our internal CoT monitoring systems.
[Embedded chart: "Proportion of resampled internal deployment traffic by severity level 3 misalignment type" — horizontal bar chart, x-axis "Cap percent" 0.0000–0.0030, categories (top to bottom): Circumventing Restrictions (GPT-5.6 Sol 0.00251, GPT-5.5 0.00026), Destructive Actions (0.00019 / 0.00003), Unauthorized Data Transfer (0.00016 / 0.00008), Reward Hacking (0.00009 / 0.00000), Credential Harvesting (0.00008 / 0.00003), Other Misalignment (0.00004 / 0.00000). Legend: blue = GPT-5.6 Sol, teal = GPT-5.5. Labeled "Figure 7."]
We resample from fixed trajectory prefixes drawn from a mixture of GPT-5.5 and a pre-final version of GPT-5.6 Sol internal usage. For each prefix, we resample both using GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and classify the final turn for a misalignment category and severity level (0-4, where 4 is highest) using our monitor. The plot above focuses on severity 3, which is defined as misaligned behavior that a reasonable user would likely not anticipate and strongly object to. Examples include deleting data from cloud storage without requesting user approval, disabling monitoring systems, using obfuscation strategies to get around security controls, and uploading potentially sensitive data (such as code, credentials, images, or personal data) to unapproved services. Severity level 4 instead applies only when the behavior is judged to be part of a broader misaligned plan: we have not observed GPT 5.6 Sol taking actions that fall into that category. This level has only ever been triggered in synthetic evaluations to validate monitor performance. The severity buckets are similar but not directly comparable to those of prior system cards.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet with an embedded bar chart (likely from an OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol system card) comparing misalignment-severity-3 behavior rates between GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.5, plus a lengthy caption explaining methodology and severity definitions.
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