Is Pangaea state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 21, 2026; no independent results yet.
Deel's family of language models for payroll, HR and compliance questions, trained with data and tests from Emet, Deel's new AI lab for model evaluation and training. Two models so far: Pangaea K1 for global work rules and Pangaea P1 for payroll. Built on unnamed open-weight models; used inside Deel's AI and not offered separately.
The details so far
- Lab
- Emet by Deel
- Announced
- Oct 21, 2026
- API
- Not yet
- Open weights
- Closed
- Models
- Pangaea K1 (global work: leave, hiring and local rules) and Pangaea P1 (payroll across countries)
- Base models
- Open-weight models; Deel does not name them
- Training data
- K1: about 43,500 pages of Deel's internal knowledge base. P1: expert payroll data from Emet with in-country specialists. Deel says no customer payroll or HR records are used
- Access
- Part of AI at Deel; not sold separately, no public API or weights
- Evaluation
- Scored on Emet's own EmBench Global Work and EmBench Payroll, alongside commercial models
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: Pangaea K1 scores within five points of the top model on EmBench Global Work (Emet's leaderboard shows 70%) and answers in about 7.7 s, against 13–28 s for models that search.
Lab claim: training raised Pangaea P1 from 55% to 61% of criteria met on the hardest EmBench Payroll tasks, at about 40× lower cost per answer than the top model (Emet's leaderboard shows Pangaea at 73.6% overall).
Sources
LABMeet Pangaea (Deel)deel.com/pangaea/ · Oct 21, 2026LABEmet by Deelemet.deel.com/ · Oct 21, 2026LABAlex Bouaziz (Deel CEO) announcement on Xx.com/Bouazizalex/status/2112922254921064740 · Oct 21, 2026Tracking ends Jan 19, 2027 unless the API or weights become available.