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VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is Claude 3 Opus state of the art?
No.Best recorded rank is #9 in General LLM.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude 3 Opus from Anthropic. Best recorded rank is #9 in General LLM. Last listed at #9 in General LLM on 2024-09-27.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low
View as of point-in-time crowns
Why

The ruling, in plain English

Last listed at #9 in General LLM on 2024-09-27.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall)
claude-3-opus-20240229
1237.899788137118 1235.6–1240.42024-09-27INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts)
claude-3-opus-20240229
1234.5728800999182 1230.2–1239.72024-10-07INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
GPQA Diamond
claude-3-opus-20240229
0.4715909090909091 0.4–0.52024-02-29INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
LMArena Vision (style-controlled)
claude-3-opus-20240229
1061.2970529574936 1050.9–1071.72026-10-09INDEP.snap_44d0155ee751
SimpleQA Verified
claude-3-opus-20240229
0.126 0.1–0.12024-02-29INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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No closed or open crown interval includes this model.

Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMNot SOTA · #9Last listed at #9 in General LLM on 2024-09-27.
ReasoningNot SOTA · #9Last listed at #9 in Reasoning on 2024-10-07.
ScienceNot SOTA · #163Last listed at #163 in Science on 2024-02-29. That board does not award a crown.
VisionNot SOTA · #102Ranked #102 in Vision.
FactualityNot SOTA · #77Last listed at #77 in Factuality on 2024-02-29.