Open-weights models beat every closed model on long documents: Kimi K3 scores 88.7% on AA-LCR, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 (
@AnthropicAI) at 85.3%.
Step 5 Preview (88.3%) and MiMo-V2.6-Pro (
@Xiaomi, 86.3%) round out the top three. Claude Opus 5.5 is next at 84.7%, then GPT-6.1 Sol, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and Gemini 3.8 Flash tie at 84.0%.
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Scores via week of Oct 19.