What changed on the public AI leaderboards in the 20 October 2026 refresh of the thinQit Index, and what it means for the rankings.
What changed
- Granite 4.2 8B lost 1.0 Index points (18.3 → 17.3) after new results: Output speed 127.29 → 51.72.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash moved up from #14 to #10 on the frontier leaderboard, passing GPT-5.6 Sol, Qwen3.8 Max, GPT-5.6 Terra and GLM-5.3 (Index 72.3 → 73.2).
- GPT-5.6 Sol slipped from #10 to #11 on the frontier leaderboard, passed by Qwen3.8 Max (Index 73.2 → 73.2).
Why it matters
Output speed feeds the Speed & price capability, which carries 5 % of the Index. The gap to #25 Ministral 3 14B is 5.2 Index points. Behind it, #27 Llama 4 Scout is 4.6 points back.
Also refreshed today: Claude Opus 5.5: Output speed 95.97 · Claude Fable 5.1: Output speed 72.49 · Muse Spark 1.3: Output speed 273.79 · GPT-6 Astra: Output speed 71.7 · Kimi K3: Output speed 40.98 · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: AA Intelligence Index 45.1 · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: Humanity's Last Exam 42.6% · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: Output speed 369.16 and 32 more.
The leaderboard today
| # | Model | Lab | Index | Δ day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | 80.4 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Hy4 preview | Tencent | 78.9 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | 78.4 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | 77.9 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Meta | 76.6 | 0.0 |
| # | Model | Params | Index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hy4 preview | 780B (40B active) | 78.9 |
| 2 | GLM-5.3 | 753.3B (40B active) | 72.4 |
| 3 | Seed-2.0-Mini | — | 71.7 |
| 4 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | 304.2B (24B active) | 70.5 |
| 5 | GLM-5.3-Flash | 321.3B (32B active) | 70.4 |
How we measure
The thinQit Index v1.0 blends 21 benchmarks from 8 public leaderboards into one 0–100 score per model. Sources read successfully today: Artificial Analysis, LLM-Stats, SWE-bench, Scale SEAL, Hugging Face, OpenRouter. Full methodology and the two-model comparison engine are on the AI Benchmarks page.
Frequently asked questions
How often is the thinQit Index updated?
Every day. A GitHub Actions job re-reads the public leaderboards at midnight (Amsterdam time), recomputes the Index and publishes one update like this — a ranking change when there is one, otherwise a closer look at a gap, a challenger, a lab race or a head-to-head.
Why does a model show a provisional score?
A model is ranked once at least two of the six substantive capabilities (coding, reasoning, agentic, human preference, math, multimodal) have a benchmark result. Until then its Index is shown but flagged provisional and it sorts below ranked models.
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