Google Cloud's Physical-Engineering Last Exam: all frontier models score under 50%
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-23
Google Cloud AI Research released Physical-Engineering's Last Exam (PLE), positioning it as the test of "work that builds the physical world," following HLE (knowledge) and ALE (digital work). All frontier models scored under 50%; commenters expect saturation within a year at the current pace.
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