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Benchmarks

Epoch ships FrontierMath v2 as the frontier saturates the old tests

With MMLU long exhausted, evaluation has moved to GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench Verified and Humanity's Last Exam — where no single model wins every column.

Filed 3 Jul 2026 · 12:19 UTC
Epoch ships FrontierMath v2 as the frontier saturates the old tests
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