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Software Engineering IQ Over Time

Each model's estimated Software Engineering IQ by release date. Step-lines connect each provider's flagship models over time.

Software Engineering IQ Over Time
Software Engineering IQ Over Time
The frontier by release date

How to read this chart

Each dot is a model with a known release date. Provider lines track public flagship releases over time and advance only when a newer model sets a higher Software Engineering IQ checkpoint for that provider.

Data sources
ARC PrizeEpoch AI FrontierMathProofBench 1.1MathArenaVals.aiArtificial AnalysisArtificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2Manual source captureTIGER-Lab MMLU-Pro leaderboard (missing rows only)Vals.ai LiveCodeBenchVals.ai IOI V2Vals.ai ProgramBenchSWE-rebenchLLM StatsLLM Stats BrowseCompOSWorldLLM Stats OSWorld-VerifiedScale LabsScale Labs MCP AtlasArena.ai Agent ArenaAgents' Last ExamEpoch AI SimpleQA VerifiedBullshitBench v2Kaggle FACTS Grounding leaderboard
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