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Reasoning / knowledge · Oct 13, 2026
Who is SOTA in Reasoning?
Kimi K2 5 & Kimi K3
Hard reasoning and expert-question performance. Saturated exams drop out of the crown automatically. As of Oct 13, 2026, Kimi K2 5 & Kimi K3 share Reasoning. Kimi K2 5 is co-SOTA in Reasoning with low confidence because primary sources disagree beyond…
Standings · open-weights
The board
| # | Model | State | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KKimi K2 5 Moonshot AI | Co-SOTA | low |
| 1 | KKimi K3 Moonshot AI | Co-SOTA | low |
| 1 | QQwq 32B Alibaba / Qwen | Near-SOTA | medium |
| 6 | ZGLM 4.5 Zhipu AI | Was SOTA | medium |
Evidence recipe
What can move this crown
- Humanity's Last Exam — primary, weight 1
- GPQA Diamond — primary, weight 1 (display only, cannot crown)
- LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts) — primary, weight 1
- LiveBench — secondary, weight 0.35