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As of: 2026-11-09 21:13 CET.
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# SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an 11-domain agentic benchmark

Full title: SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an 11-domain agentic benchmark; the best model scores 12%, Claude Opus 5.5 leads overall

On Nov 2, 2026 SemiAnalysis published GDPx, a benchmark of long agentic tasks in realistic environments (deal rooms, sandboxed engineering software, live cyber ranges) across 11 economically important domains. Even the best model scores about 12%; SemiAnalysis calls Claude Opus 5.5 the best all-round model, with GPT-6 Astra leading recursive self-improvement and materials science and Gemini 4 Carbon leading biology.

## Key facts
- Domains: chip design, cybersecurity, biology, finance, legal, quant trading, recursive self-improvement (RSI), hardware design, materials science, alignment, software engineering
- Scoring: pass@1 over three attempts, domains weighted equally; each domain built with at least one specialised data partner, SemiAnalysis did final QA
- Examples (SemiAnalysis): chip-design task vt01, GPT-6 Astra 0.34 vs Claude Opus 0.135 vs Fable 0.07; legal redline task, Opus 5.5 44% partial score, GPT-6 Astra 25%, Gemini 4 Argon 2%, GLM-5.3 0.5%, binary 0% for all
- Finance and legal: nearly every model scores 0 under binary grading

## What happened

See summary. Overall per-model scores are shown only in charts on the page; we quote only numbers stated in the text.

## Why it matters

A new, hard, multi-domain agentic benchmark from an independent analyst firm, with an RSI domain, published while labs' own RSI
claims are contested. It is new and not yet replicated.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 186 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 125 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 216 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 155 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [SemiAnalysis: GDPx, measuring frontier model capabilities (Nov 2)](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/gdpx-measuring-frontier-model-capabilities) (newsletter.semianalysis.com, official)
2. [SemiAnalysis on X (thread)](https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2117075902865531210) (x.com, discussion)

## Changes

- 2026-11-02 (filed): Created

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