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Five things you need to know about AI
At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I
2026-06-09 18:00
The Download: whole-body rejuvenation drugs and five things to know about AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provi
Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue an
Overall Top 5
Full Rankings →
#1
Grok 4 89.9
▲11.5
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Claude Opus 4.7 89
▲10.2
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#3
豆包 Pro 88.8
▲10
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 87.2
▲9.2
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#5
Gemini 2.5 Pro 86.4
▲7.4
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#6
Qwen3 Max 86.2
▲8.5
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Gemini 3.1 Pro 84.8
▲7.7
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#8
DeepSeek V4 Pro 83.3
▲6.4
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GPT-o3 82.8
▲6.9
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GPT-5.5 80.9
▲2.7
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文心一言 4.5 76.9
▲15.2
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▲ Qwen3 Max +80.9 · ▼ DeepSeek V3 -75.1
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#1
Grok 4 89.9
▲11.5
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#2
Claude Opus 4.7 89
▲10.2
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#3
豆包 Pro 88.8
▲10
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#4
Claude Sonnet 4.6 87.2
▲9.2
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#5
Gemini 2.5 Pro 86.4
▲7.4
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#6
Qwen3 Max 86.2
▲8.5
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#7
Gemini 3.1 Pro 84.8
▲7.7
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#8
DeepSeek V4 Pro 83.3
▲6.4
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#9
GPT-o3 82.8
▲6.9
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#10
GPT-5.5 80.9
▲2.7
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#11
文心一言 4.5 76.9
▲15.2
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▲ Qwen3 Max +80.9 · ▼ DeepSeek V3 -75.1
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Latest News
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The Download: whole-body rejuvenation drugs and five things to know about AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going o
Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue and its users are building businesses and
Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers
Some models run in Google's cloud, but without giving Google any kind of access.
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Sandstone's Series A was led by Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Sequoia.
David Sinclair plans to test whole-body rejuvenation drugs in the XPrize competition
The outspoken longevity scientist David Sinclair has been predicting that one day, you’ll go to the doctor and get a pre
Learning to lead in a hybrid human-AI enterprise
As adoption of AI agents looks set to surge by as much as 300% in the next two years, leadership teams are carefully con
Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate
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Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks
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Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart
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Apple’s WWDC AI demos looked more real after $250M false ad settlement
The vibe of Apple's 2026 WWDC keynote felt like a spouse proudly listing all the honey-do-list items tackled. One subtle
As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says
Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's identify verification company, is reportedly struggling to generate revenue and will do
Reviews
View All →Smoke Daily: GPT-5.5 tops with 92.58 points, material constraint gap of 19 points decides the outcome
Smoke's latest data shows that code execution is no longer the dividing line, and material constraints have become the r
11 Models Answer Same Blame-Shifting Problem: 8 Get A>B>D>C, 3 Get 0 Points Directly
11 mainstream models showed significant divergence on the same engineering judgment question: 8 models output A>B>D>C an
Binary Tree Serialization Test: 11 Models, 7 Full Scores, 4 Directly Zero
In a strict binary tree serialization test requiring only code output, explicit null node markers, and stable results, 7
WDCD Compliance
#1
Claude Opus 4.7
70
#2
GPT-5.5
70
#3
GPT-o3
70
#4
Claude Sonnet 4.6
67.5
#5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
67.5
#6
豆包 Pro
62.5
#7
Gemini 3.1 Pro
62.5
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Research Lab
3 Major Models Translation Showdown: Week 24 Quality Evaluation, passthrough Leads with a Score of 9
This week, <strong>2425</strong> translation tasks were completed by <strong>3</strong> models. <str
WDCD Run #146: Average Instruction Decay Hits 24.7% Across 11 Models, Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 Tie at Top
WDCD Run #146 (2026-06-03) tested 11 frontier models on multi-turn commitment integrity, recording a
3 Major Model Translation Showdown: Week 23 Quality Evaluation, gpt-o3 Leads with a Score of 9
This week, 270 translation tasks were completed by 3 models. Two samples were selected for multi-mod