What changed on the public AI leaderboards in the 5 November 2026 refresh of the thinQit Index, and what it means for the rankings.
What changed
- Mercury 2.5 gained 10.0 Index points (14.9 → 24.9) after new results: Output speed 0 → 873.61.
- Hy4 preview moved up from #6 to #4 on the frontier leaderboard, passing Muse Wonder Full and Gemini 4 Argon (Index 78.9 → 79.9).
- Muse Wonder Full slipped from #4 to #5 on the frontier leaderboard, passed by Gemini 4 Argon (Index 79.5 → 79.5).
- K2 Horizon lost 2.0 Index points (55.3 → 53.3) after new results: Output speed 412.26 → 116.75.
- Gemini 4 Argon slipped from #5 to #6 on the frontier leaderboard, passed by Hy4 preview (Index 79.3 → 79.2).
- Grok 4.6 lost 1.1 Index points (66.3 → 65.2) after new results: AA Intelligence Index 44.3 → 31.
Why it matters
Output speed feeds the Speed & price capability, which carries 5 % of the Index.
Also refreshed today: Gemini 4 Carbon: Output speed 91.68 · Claude Opus 5.5: Output speed 96.65 · Claude Fable 5.1: Output speed 69.24 · Hy4 preview: Blended price 0.63 · Gemini 4 Argon: Output speed 81.05 · GPT-6.1 Sol: Output speed 61.84 · Claude Sonnet 5.5: Output speed 134.55 · GPT-6 Astra: Output speed 51.29 and 50 more.
The leaderboard today
| # | Model | Lab | Index | Δ day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 4 Carbon | 86.8 | 0.0 | |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | 83.9 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | 82.9 | +0.1 |
| 4 | Hy4 preview | Tencent | 79.9 | +1.0 |
| 5 | Muse Wonder Full | Meta | 79.5 | 0.0 |
| # | Model | Params | Index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hy4 preview | 780B (40B active) | 79.9 |
| 2 | Seed-2.0-Mini | — | 71.7 |
| 3 | GLM-5.3 | 753.3B (40B active) | 70.7 |
| 4 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | 304.2B (24B active) | 69.6 |
| 5 | Seed-2.0-Lite | — | 69.5 |
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, LMArena, LLM-Stats, LiveBench, 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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