AA Intelligence Index v4.2 lands as 300-person Moonshot's Kimi closes in on Google
Hesamation · x · 2026-09-05
Artificial Analysis shipped Intelligence Index v4.2 as an interim update ahead of v5: new agentic knowledge-work eval AA-Briefcase with a private test set, GDP.pdf long-context reasoning across 4,592 PDF pages, removal of saturated GPQA Diamond, plus heavier weighting on held-out tests to prevent gaming.
The accompanying chart sparked buzz: ThePrimeagen marveled that Moonshot's Kimi, from a 300-person company, is beating Google, a company spending $200B on AI this year.
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