The 2026-09-21 YZ Index Smoke quick test covers 10 models, with Grok 4 leading the day at 95.44 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test, useful for observing short-term signals and not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
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WDCD Run #331 (2026-09-20) evaluated 11 models on multi-turn commitment integrity, with Grok 4 topping the ranking at 91.8 points while the cohort averaged a -15.1% commitment decay from Round 1 to Round 3.
Latest WDCD v3.1 pilot data shows GLM-4.6 dropping 29.8 points and GPT-5.5 dropping 6 points versus Run #326, while none of the other nine evaluated models rose. Grok 4 ranks first at 91.76, with Gemini 3.1 Pro second at 89.59.
In the WDCD v3.1 test, the data-boundary scenario produced the lowest scores of all five categories, with glm-4.6 scoring just 1.36/4 against 3.8/4 for the leaders. The results reveal sharp differences in how models keep their commitments under pressure, with clear implications for enterprises deploying AI in production workflows.
In WDCD v2 anchor-task testing, Grok 4 recorded zero complete collapses at R3, while GLM-4.6’s R3 collapse rate reached 27.6%, revealing sharp differences in compliance survival under three rounds of pressure. The average R3 integrity rate across the sample was only 49.5%.
Grok 4 tops the WDCD commitment-keeping rankings with 91.76, while GLM-4.6 comes last at 61.55, a 30.21-point gap between first and last. The WDCD v3.1 pilot covers 11 models and highlights sharp differences in adherence under sustained pressure.
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Grok 4's code execution score fell from 96.70 to 74.30 in today's Smoke evaluation, dragging its main leaderboard score down from 88.33 to 75.38. The decline appears driven mainly by single-day task-sampling variance rather than a systematic model regression, since material constraints and the integrity rating did not deteriorate in tandem.
In today's Smoke benchmark, DeepSeek V4 Pro's material constraint score fell from 91.70 to 76.70, while its main leaderboard score rose from 55.02 to 75.77.
