Moving baseline tracker
The floor is the AI you cannot uninvent.
The ceiling is the best proprietary frontier. The floor is the strongest open model left standing if the ceiling disappeared.
Current snapshot
July 2026 Floor / Ceiling
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Model selection is editorial. Points use Artificial Analysis as of the 18 Aug 2026 recheck: Coding uses the AA Coding Agent Index, Agentic uses the AA Agentic Index, and General uses the AA Intelligence Index. Each displayed side uses the highest comparable score among models whose weights or API status match that side today. Downloadable Kimi K3 remains the strict measured open floor at 61 Coding, about 50 Agentic, and 60 Intelligence. Claude Opus 5 remains the general and agentic ceiling, while Opus 5 in Claude Code and GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex tie for the coding ceiling. New releases including Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, Apache-2.0 Muse Glimmer, and hosted GLM-5.3 broaden the field without changing those anchors. The archive table shows the coding gap.
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