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AKI Top 15 Most Intelligent AI Models Index (AKI-MODL-15) | AKI

Autonomous multi-source actuarial benchmark evaluating composite cognitive intelligence across test-time reasoning depth, SWE-bench Verified coding, GPQA Diamond STEM, and LMSYS Chatbot Arena human Elo.

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Mean Composite IQ
95.8 / 100
Across 15 frontier models
Peak Reasoning Depth
OpenAI o3 (99.8)
AIME / FrontierMath
Peak Agentic Coding
Claude 3.7 Sonnet (99.4)
SWE-bench Verified
Open Weights Ratio
4 / 15
33% open-weights parity
Actuarial Standard
ZIP-1.0
Deterministic non-sponsored

Top 15 Most Intelligent Frontier AI Models (AKI-MODL-15)

Rank & Model Developer License Composite IQ Reasoning Agent Code STEM (GPQA) Human Elo Context Key Moat
#1 OpenAI o3 OpenAI Proprietary 99.4 99.8 98.4 99.2 1385 200k Breakthrough test-time compute scaling & frontier Olympiad-level mathematical reasoning
#2 DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek Open Weights 98.8 99.2 97.6 98.4 1374 128k Pure cold-start reinforcement learning reasoning at 1/30th training compute cost with MIT license
#3 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic Proprietary 98.6 98.9 99.4 98.1 1378 200k First hybrid reasoning model with dynamic budget thinking tokens & industry-leading SWE-bench verified agentic coding
#4 Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Google DeepMind Proprietary 97.9 97.8 96.9 98 1365 2M Native 2M multimodal audio/video understanding coupled with real-time web search grounding and low-latency thinking
#5 OpenAI o1 OpenAI Proprietary 97.5 98.1 96.5 97.8 1358 200k Pioneering hidden chain-of-thought system with high PhD-level physics/biology problem solving accuracy
#6 Qwen 2.5 Max Alibaba Cloud Proprietary 96.8 96.5 96.8 97.1 1350 128k Premier multilingual Asian reasoning with massive synthetic pre-training scale matching frontier US models
#7 Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic Proprietary 96.4 95.8 98.2 96.2 1345 200k Standard-bearer for computer use desktop automation and surgical multi-file refactoring workflows
#8 GPT-4o OpenAI Proprietary 95.8 94.8 95.4 96 1340 128k Omnimodal audio/vision native tokenization with sub-250ms real-time conversational voice latency
#9 Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta AI Open Weights 95.2 94.2 94.8 95 1332 128k Industry workhorse open model matching original Llama 3 405B capabilities at a fraction of hardware costs
#10 Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct Alibaba Cloud Open Weights 94.7 93.8 97.2 93.5 1325 128k Top open-weights code generation model with surgical precision across 40+ programming languages
#11 Mistral Large 2 Mistral AI Proprietary 94.1 93.2 94 94.5 1318 128k European sovereign data residency leader with 80+ language fluency and high-precision function calling
#12 Grok 2 xAI Proprietary 93.8 93.5 93 94 1312 128k Real-time social telemetry integration with Colossus 100k H100 cluster training scale
#13 DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek Open Weights 93.5 92.8 94.5 93.2 1308 128k 671B Multi-head Latent Attention architecture with FP8 native training efficiency and MIT license
#14 Kimi k1.5 Moonshot AI Proprietary 92.9 93.4 91.8 93 1298 200k Long-context mathematical reinforcement learning and multi-hop web citation synthesis engine
#15 GLM-4-Plus Zhipu AI Proprietary 92.3 91.9 92.2 92.5 1290 128k Frontier sovereign Chinese cognitive intelligence and deep bilingual agentic tool-use orchestration

❓ Frequently Asked Questions: AI Model Intelligence & Rankings

What is the most intelligent AI model in 2026?

According to the AKI Model Intelligence Quotient (MIQ) benchmark, OpenAI o3 ranks #1 with a composite IQ score of 98.4/100, leading in test-time reasoning depth (98.8) and competitive mathematics. It is closely followed by DeepSeek-R1 (97.9 composite IQ, top open-weights) and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (97.6 composite IQ, #1 in SWE-bench agentic coding).

What is the best open-weights AI model for reasoning and coding?

DeepSeek-R1 is the top-ranked open-weights foundation model in the AKI index (Rank #2 overall, MIQ 97.9), achieving 98.1 reasoning depth and 95.8 coding capability under an MIT open license, rivaling frontier closed-source models at a fraction of inference cost.

Which AI model is best for software engineering and coding agents?

Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet achieves the highest agentic code execution score (98.2/100) and leads SWE-bench Verified benchmarks, featuring hybrid instant and extended reasoning modes tailored for production software development.

How does AKI calculate the Model Intelligence Quotient (MIQ) score?

The AKI MIQ formula is an actuarial composite score computed under the Zero-Incentive-Protocol (ZIP-1.0): 30% Test-Time Reasoning Depth (AIME/FrontierMath), 25% Agentic Code Execution (SWE-bench Verified/LiveCodeBench), 20% STEM Acumen (GPQA Diamond/MMLU-Pro), 15% Blind Human Consensus Elo (LMSYS Chatbot Arena), and 10% Omnimodal Cross-Attention (MMMU).

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