New paper: How Good Are Frontier Models at Physics? Expert Re-Grading Reveals Broken Evaluations and Near-Saturation of Leading Benchmarks
Frontier models have tackled Navier–Stokes.
People naturally wonder, how is their capability for physical sciences? According to today’s benchmarks, frontier models still struggle with physics (e.g. 47.3% with GPT5.6-sol on Humanity Last Exam - Physics component). But that picture did not match physicists' experience using these models.
So we did a rigorous analysis of current benchmarks and re-graded their supposed failures with Yale physicists.
We found that the problem was often the benchmark and not the model !!
When corrected, the models almost saturate all benchmarks, including everyone’s favourite, Humanity Last Exam (physics-part) and Critpt. These failures in turn make AA less reliable as a measure of model’s true capability.
For more details, results and analysis check out our preprint:
and blog post: