Artificial Analysis Releases the HLE-Diamond Leaderboard
Artificial Analysis has launched the HLE-Diamond leaderboard within Intelligence Index v5, independently evaluating the 1,000-question version of Humanity's Last Exam refined by CAIS and Scale AI. Only 17 model variants (about 13%) scored above 50%, with Gemini 4 Carbon (high) leading at 69% and Claude Opus 5.5 (max) close behind at 68%. The highest open-weight model is Kimi K3.1 Pro at 37%, trailing by more than 30 points.
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We've launched our HLE-Diamond leaderboard, our independent evaluation of the refined 1,000-question version of Humanity's Last Exam, as part of v5 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
HLE-Diamond was released by @CAIS and @scale_AI after a year of cleaning and refining the original Humanity's Last Exam dataset with input from the research community. It has 1,000 closed-ended questions, split evenly between reasoning and knowledge, and 272 of them include an image.
We run every question once without tools, using the official HLE system prompt. GPT-5.6 Luna (medium) grades each answer against the reference answer with the official HLE judge prompt, and we report the share of questions judged correct (pass@1).
Key takeaways:
➤ Only 17 model variants (~13%) score above 50% today: Gemini 4 Carbon (high) leads at 69%, followed by Claude Opus 5.5 (max) at 68%
➤ Models score higher on reasoning than on knowledge: Over 90% of the models we measured do better on the reasoning portion of the benchmark. Gemini 4 Carbon (high) leads both, at 80% on reasoning and 59% on knowledge. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) and GPT-6 Astra (max) both score 78% on reasoning, and Opus 5.5 is ahead on knowledge, 58% vs 50%
➤ Open weights models trail by more than 30 points: Kimi K3.1 Pro (weights not yet released) is the top open weights model at 37%, followed by MiniMax-M3.1-Flash at 28% and Kimi K3 (max) at 27%