Benchmark Almanac

GPQA Extended

Claude 3 Opus 48.8% leads since Mar 2024 Only in system cards

Models answer all 546 GPQA questions, graduate level biology, chemistry and physics questions written by experts. Scored by accuracy.

Full extended set of GPQA. The gpqa-main and gpqa-diamond records cover its subsets.

In the authors’ words

We present GPQA, a challenging dataset of 448 multiple-choice questions written by domain experts in biology, physics, and chemistry. We ensure that the questions are high-quality and extremely difficult: experts who have or are pursuing PhDs in the corresponding domains reach 65% accuracy (74% when discounting clear mistakes the experts identified in retrospect), while highly skilled non-expert validators only reach 34% accuracy, despite spending on average over 30 minutes with unrestricted access to the web (i.e., the questions are "Google-proof"). The questions are also difficult for state-of-the-art AI systems, with our strongest GPT-4 based baseline achieving 39% accuracy. If we are to use future AI systems to help us answer very hard questions, for example, when developing new scientific knowledge, we need to develop scalable oversight methods that enable humans to supervise their outputs, which may be difficult even if the supervisors are themselves skilled and knowledgeable. The difficulty of GPQA both for skilled non-experts and frontier AI systems should enable realistic scalable oversight experiments, which we hope can help devise ways for human experts to reliably get truthful information from AI systems that surpass human capabilities.

Abstract of GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark (arXiv:2311.12022, CC0)
Made by NYU (Rein et al.) Released Nov 2023 Science questions All tasks public Last in a system card Mar 2024 Last model added Mar 2024
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Multiple choice
3
Models scored in lab cards
3
System cards report it, from 1 lab

Claude 3 Opus leads with 48.8% among models released by Mar 2024

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

The newest model with a score here came out in Mar 2024, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Claude 3 Opus 48.8%
  2. 2 Claude 3 Sonnet 38%
  3. 3 Claude 3 Haiku 34.7%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Claude 3 Opus 48.8% Mar 2024 Model card
2 Claude 3 Sonnet 38% Mar 2024 Model card
3 Claude 3 Haiku 34.7% Mar 2024 Model card

Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Anthropic
Lab claims Not tested since Mar 2024

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) Claude 3 Opus 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) Claude 3 Opus

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

3 system cards report it, from 1 lab

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
4 Mar 2024 Claude 3 Sonnet model card 38 GPQA Extended Set, 0-shot CoT. 5-shot CoT 39.3 (Table 8) Capabilities
4 Mar 2024 Claude 3 Opus model card 48.8 GPQA Extended Set, 0-shot CoT. 5-shot CoT 49.2 (Table 8) Capabilities
4 Mar 2024 Claude 3 Haiku model card 34.7 GPQA Extended Set, 0-shot CoT. 5-shot CoT 35.5 (Table 8) Capabilities

More in Science and reasoning

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  • Terminal-Bench-Science In use 70 scientific research-workflow tasks across five science areas, run in Harbor containers. Hidden tests give the resolution rate. GPT-6 Astra 68.1%
  • FrontierScience In use Models solve physics, chemistry, and biology problems in an Olympiad track graded by short answer and a Research track graded by 10-point rubrics. Intern-S2-397B 87%
  • BioMysteryBench In use Bioinformatics problems on anonymized real datasets that require real analysis with tools. Rubric-graded, with human-solvable and human-difficult splits. Claude Opus 5 90.1%
  • HiPhO In use Models solve theory problems from 2024 and 2025 physics olympiad exams, some with diagrams. Official marking schemes grade answers and steps, mapped to medal levels. Gemini 3 Pro 78.3%
  • LABBench2 In use 11 biology research sub-tasks (literature, figures, tables, patents, trials and more) with tool access. Macro-averaged accuracy. GPT-5.2 60.9%