HLE-Diamond: Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 68% as knowledge questions stump frontier models

ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-28

Artificial Analysis details HLE-Diamond, which replaces Humanity's Last Exam in its Index: the refined 1,000-question version from CAIS and Scale AI, split evenly between reasoning and knowledge. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 68%, GPT-6 Astra (max) at 64%, Claude Fable 5.1 (max) at 60%.

A notable structural finding: reasoning is easier than knowledge for leaders — Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra both score 78% on reasoning versus 58% and 50% on knowledge.

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