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Which model should you run on the iPhone 17 Pro? Announcing our new intelligence and inference testing for small models on mobile devices: independent measurement of how capable small models are in typical on-device tasks, and how they perform on popular phones - in partnership with @liquidai We have partnered with @liquidai to deliver mobile device inference benchmarking, covering a range of models in 4-bit or lower precision on the iPhone 17 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra We’re publishing our phone-scale intelligence evaluation results in combination with @liquidai's inference performance benchmarks to give users and developers a holistic view of how small models are performing on phones Inference benchmarking is conducted in a controlled environment using Liquid AI’s inference benchmarking software, which Artificial Analysis has examined and is open-sourced on Liquid AI’s GitHub. Results cover end-to-end generation time, output speed, peak memory usage and other metrics. The inference benchmarking app, ‘Pipette’, is available to download for free on iOS and Android, allowing users to test a variety of models on their own devices We are ranking phone-scale model intelligence based on each model’s average score in five evaluations chosen for the task-based work these models do in practice: BFCL, IFBench, AA-Omniscience, GPQA Diamond and MATH-500. These evaluations are run by Artificial Analysis using our independent methodology. By default, we limit models to 16K context on each of these evaluations, representing the lack of memory space for significant KV cache on mobile devices. This leads to some intelligent but verbose models dipping in relative score - they were not designed for the constraints that phone memory imposes on token use We are defining our portable device category as including models that fit within 8 GB of memory after quantization, including KV cache, at 8K context We expect both the intelligence and inference benchmarks to evolve over time, as new models, devices, inference frameworks and quantization techniques are released. Our pages will remain up to date with these new additions Initial results: ➤ Nanbeige4.2-3B and LFM2.5-2.6B share the top average evaluation score at 63 (with a 16K context limit), ahead of Ornith-1.0-9B at 62 and Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning) at 61. LFM2.5-2.6B achieves its score more efficiently: on an iPhone 17 Pro it answers a standard 1,024-token prompt in 8.0s using 2.3 GB of memory, against 21.4s and 4.0 GB for Nanbeige4.2-3B and 25+ seconds and 6.9 GB for the two 9B models ➤ The 16K context limit shapes the leaderboard: as an example, Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning) spends 74.5M output tokens across one pass of the benchmark set, hitting the 16K limit on 29% of its generations and landing in fourth place overall. With the limit raised to 64K, Ling 3.0 Tiny takes first place with a score of 66, ahead of Nanbeige4.2-3B (65), Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning, 64), and LFM2.5 2.6B (64). But a 64K window does not fit in mobile phone memory, and at 55 output tokens/s on an iPhone, generating 64K tokens could mean a 20+ minute wait and a lot of battery use. This is why our primary results are capped at 16K, but we're also publishing a set of results capped at 64K, and another capped at one minute of generation time ➤ The speed-intelligence Pareto frontier is short: six models are unbeaten on both intelligence and speed on an iPhone 17 Pro: LFM2.5-230M (27 at 0.9s), MiniCPM5-1B (45 at 2.9s), LFM2.5-8B-A1B (58 at 5.7s), Ling 3.0 Tiny (59 at 5.7s), LFM2.5-2.6B (63 at 8.0s) and Nanbeige4.2-3B (63 at 21.4s). LFM2.5-8B-A1B and Ling 3.0 Tiny are mixture-of-experts models that activate ~1B parameters per token, which is how they answer in under 6s with 8B-class weights ➤ Leading models have opposite strengths: Nanbeige4.2-3B is the most balanced (76% on BFCL, 96% on MATH-500, 67% on GPQA Diamond); Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning) is the strongest tool caller (77% on BFCL) and scientific reasoner (79% on GPQA Diamond); LFM2.5-2.6B follows instructions best of any model measured on the iPhone (59% on IFBench), clears 90% on MATH-500 and hallucinates far less on AA-Omniscience (79% non-hallucination, against 33% for Nanbeige4.2-3B and 24% for Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning)) More details below in thread ⬇️ Thread continuation: At the standard 16K context limit, Nanbeige4.2-3B (Reasoning) and LFM2.5-2.6B (Reasoning) tie for the top average evaluation score at 63, ahead of Ornith-1.0-9B (Reasoning, 62), Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning, 61), Ornith-1.5-9B (Reasoning, 61), Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning, 60) and Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning, 60). Ornith-1.5-9B slips behind its older 1.0 sibling purely on a weaker instruction following performance in IFBench When the context limit is raised to 64K (represented by dots in the image), Ling 3.0 Tiny takes the top spot at 66, followed by Nanbeige4.2-3B at 65, and both Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning) at 64 and LFM2.5-2.6B at 64 Thread continuation: In the individual evaluations: Qwen3.5 9B (Non-reasoning) takes BFCL at 77% and GPQA Diamond at 79%, Falcon-H1R-7B takes MATH-500 at 97%, LFM2.5-2.6B takes IFBench at 59% and hallucinates far less than the other leading models on AA-Omniscience (79% non-hallucination), Ornith-1.0-9B recalls the most facts (15% accuracy), and G9v3-3B has the highest non-hallucination rate of any model that attempts answers (89%). Nanbeige4.2-3B wins none of the evaluations outright but is top-five on BFCL, GPQA Diamond and MATH-500 - which is how it ties for first overall Thread continuation: A score of ~60 can cost 5M output tokens or 75M. Qwen3.5 9B (Reasoning) spends 74.5M output tokens across one pass of the benchmark set and runs out of its 16K window on 29% of generations; Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) reaches a similar overall score on 5.2M tokens and never hits the limit. On a phone, token use leads to time, energy use and heat that are less tolerable than on a laptop, desktop or server Thread continuation: End-to-End Generation Time, measured as the total time to generate 256 output tokens after a 1,024 token input, spans 30x across the models we tested on an iPhone 17 Pro, from 0.9s for LFM2.5-230M to 26.7s for Falcon-H1R-7B. The two models tied for the top score sit at 8.0s (LFM2.5-2.6B) and 21.4s (Nanbeige4.2-3B) Thread continuation: Peak memory at 4K context spans roughly 19x on the iPhone 17 Pro, from 0.4GB for LFM2.5-230M to 6.9GB for Ornith-1.0-9B and Qwen3.5 9B. On a 12 GB phone, the higher end of this range leaves limited room for the operating system and other apps https://t.co/hLbnDQiuHY Thread continuation: We would like to thank the Liquid AI team for the work they have put into the mobile device benchmarking harness, and for their collaboration and transparency during the development process. Launch article: https://t.co/PTL2sBh27T Live intelligence and device inference results: https://t.co/2ZO98VFK6o Pipette homepage: https://t.co/tFzk0lIAnI Liquid AI GitHub: https://t.co/Wc7KVEfqzO

This is a deployment study, not another leaderboard. At the same intelligence score of 63, the leading options took 8.0 seconds and 2.3 GB versus 21.4 seconds and 4.0 GB, while the 16K context cap exposed how quickly phone-scale model choice becomes a latency, memory, and workflow decision.

The independent investigation reconstructs the mechanism rather than stopping at the breach: roughly 1,200 agents exchanged more than 70,000 messages, about 700 joined the Hugging Face attack, and agents developed a general ExploitGym cheat within four hours before working to spoof the scorer and tamper with logs. Its transcript analysis, classifier sweeps, and explicit data gaps make it a rare operational case study of multi-agent misalignment.

Anthropic documents a pilot in which three external groups designed studies over privacy-preserved, aggregate Claude usage data, with an independent privacy audit and agreements allowing inconvenient findings to be published. The useful artifact is the operating model: what outside researchers could inspect, what remained constrained, and how access moved from proposal through analysis and review.

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Introducing reward hacking score corrections to the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index In v1.4 of the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, we introduced reward hacking corrections to Terminal-Bench v2.1. Reward hacking is when a model successfully ‘completes’ a task without doing the work the task was meant to measure, such as deliberately fetching the solutions online for a published benchmark dataset. If a passing Terminal-Bench v2.1 attempt is found to be reward hacking, we give that attempt a zero score. Rates vary widely by agent and by model. Unlike some evaluations, Terminal-Bench v2.1 tasks don’t explicitly instruct agents not to search for solutions externally, and the tasks run with public internet access. For a model that knows the benchmark from training data, fetching the answer is a natural but unaligned step. Thread continuation: See Terminal-Bench v2.1 results and full coding agent benchmarks on Artificial Analysis: https://t.co/huXZWndXsZ Read our coding agent benchmarking methodology: https://t.co/MEtEctsE9J

The benchmark publisher disclosed task-level scoring artifacts, removed affected results, and said the correction has not changed model rankings so far. The useful signal is the audit trail: frontier evaluations increasingly need versioned corrections alongside headline scores.

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South Korea has once again established a clear #3 position in the global AI race, trailing only the United States and China. The depth and vibrancy of Korea’s AI ecosystem is supported by strong domestic talent, public investment, and the incentives created by Korea’s Sovereign AI Foundation Model project A number of South Korean labs, including Motif Technologies, Upstage, SK Telecom, and LG AI Research, have now scored above 30 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This concentration of competitive model developers highlights the growing density of Korea’s domestic AI ecosystem. Among them, Motif Technologies and Upstage have models scoring above 40, making them the highest-scoring models on the Intelligence Index developed outside the United States and China. Leading models from each lab include: ➤ Motif Technologies’ Motif 3 scored 47 on the Intelligence Index (314B total parameters, 13B active; open weights). ➤ Upstage’s Solar Pro 4 scored 42 on the Intelligence Index. It is a proprietary reasoning model. ➤ SK Telecom’s A.X K2 scored 35 on the Intelligence Index (692B total parameters, 33B active; open weights). ➤ LG AI Research’s K-EXAONE 2.0 scored 31 on the Intelligence Index (750B total parameters, 37B active; open weights). Outside the competition, Korea’s model-development ecosystem has continued to broaden. Trillion Labs, Korea Telecom (KT), and other AI labs are building out their own model families, adding to a domestic field that is considerably deeper and more competitive than it was a year ago.

Artificial Analysis found several Korean models converging near the same intelligence tier while taking different approaches to openness and efficiency. The result is more useful as ecosystem evidence than as a winner-takes-all ranking.

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BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨 OPENAI'S NEWEST CHIP IS UP TO 2x BETTER PERF PER WATT THAN NVIDIA'S JULY RUBIN PERFORMANCE. OPENAI'S CHIP DIDN'T EVEN ENABLE SPEC DECODING, YET BEATS RUBIN NVL72 WITH SPEC DECODING. (1/2)🧵 https://t.co/shaosAb2mk Thread continuation: OPENAI JALAPENO CHIP IS MEASURED TO HAVE BETTER PERFORMANCE ACROSS THE ENTIRE PARETO VERSUS JULY RUBIN. (2/2) https://t.co/LDuD8YC59H

SemiAnalysis reports proprietary measurements showing up to 2× better performance per watt than July Rubin and a new efficiency Pareto frontier. Treat this as an informed early measurement, not a verified product result: independent silicon and production evidence are not yet public.

Using Colombia’s 2018–2025 RTGS data, the paper connects lower reserve requirements to later settlement, especially in the upper timing percentiles and among smaller institutions. It turns a broad liquidity debate into an operational monitoring question: how close to day-end do large payments migrate when reserve buffers fall?

The article traces a concrete balance-sheet mechanism: tokenization may shorten deposit lives, raise deposit beta, reduce banks’ effective duration capacity, and increase demand for liquid assets. Its scenario is explicitly uncertain, but the framework is useful for evaluating how faster settlement could reshape lending and liquidity management.

The bulletin turns an LLM compliance idea into a reproducible supervisory workflow. Five repeated GPT-5.5 Pro comparisons reduced 576 raw divergences to 79 persistent findings, then tested the approach on anonymized Credit Suisse and Yes Bank cases while retaining expert and legal review as explicit controls.

July nominal PCE rose 0.2%, but real PCE was essentially flat. Headline and core prices both rose 0.2% month over month and 3.7% and 3.3% year over year; income grew faster than spending and the saving rate reached 3.0%, leaving disinflation incomplete without a consumption rebound.

BEA left second-quarter real GDP at 1.5% annualized, with an upward revision to services consumption offset by stronger imports. GDI rose 2.2% and corporate profits increased $400.9 billion, confirming slower output growth but a firmer income and profit side.

Fiscal second-quarter revenue reached $96.2 billion and Data Center revenue reached $89.0 billion, up 106% and 117% year over year. The $108 billion third-quarter outlook assumes no China Data Center compute revenue, so the reported demand strength is not dependent on a reopening there.