Blood on the Clocktower benchmark: Kimi K3.1 Pro tops open models, just below GPT 5.5

eliebakouch · x · 2026-11-12

eliebakouch added 5 open models to Dwarkesh Patel's Blood on the Clocktower social-deduction benchmark, watching their chains of thought as they lie, bluff and catch each other. Kimi K3.1 Pro is the best open model, landing mid-pack among closed models just below GPT 5.5, with a coherent open-model ranking (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash beats its older version, GLM 5.3 beats 5.3 Flash). A notable finding: models good at the game are also good at spotting villains from just the public transcript — useful for cheaper evaluation.

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