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HLE Extended

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Models answer closed-ended frontier academic questions. Mercor adds 447 new expert-written tasks to the 2158 public ones and reports both scores.

Held-out extension of humanitys-last-exam. Mercor shows the original and extended score for each model. The month is approximate. The Wayback Machine first saved the earliest extended pages on 2026-08-15.

Made by Mercor Released Aug 2026 Expert-written questions Public tasks plus a private test set
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
Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.

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