Frontier Science
Frontier Science is a benchmark of exceptionally challenging scientific reasoning problems spanning advanced natural-science domains, designed to test expert-level scientific understanding and multi-step reasoning.
MAI-Code-1-Flash from Microsoft currently leads the Frontier Science leaderboard with a score of 0.582 across 1 evaluated AI models.
What Frontier Science measures
Frontier Science is a text benchmark that evaluates large language models on reasoning and general tasks. LLM Stats tracks 1 model on this benchmark, with a maximum possible score of 1. Current average across reported models is 0.6, with the leader reaching 0.6.
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MAI-Code-1-Flash leads with 58.2%.
Progress Over Time
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Frontier Science Leaderboard
| Context | Cost | License | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft | — | — | — |
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