AI Model Timeline

Enterprise and RAG suitability, measured independently: grounded-summarization hallucination rate, multi-turn agentic tool use, knowledge-grounded agentic workflows and whether a model admits what it does not know.

Live Status: Data through 2026-10-17
Reliability

Enterprise & RAG Leaderboard

The axis academic benchmarks miss: how dependable a model is in retrieval-augmented and agentic deployments. Four axes, all oriented higher = better — hallucination is shown inverted as Grounding so the table never reads backwards. They come from different evaluations and are not a combined score: read each column on its own. Only curated flagships are scored; — marks a genuine gap, not a zero.

Newest scored model: Sep 2026·Grounding: publishing (Sep 2026)Tool-Use: superseded upstream (Jun 2026)τ³-Banking: publishing (Sep 2026)Knowledge: publishing (Oct 2026)
#Model
Grounding ↑▼100 − hallucination
Tool-Use ↑↕τ-bench
τ³-Banking ↑↕policy KB + tool calls
Knowledge ↑↕AA-Omniscience, −100…100
1
DeepSeek-V3.2CN
93.7
71.3
——
2
GPT-6 SolUS
93.5
——
27.1
3
GPT-5.4 ThinkingUS
93.0
———
4
GPT-5.4 ProUS
91.7
80.1
——
5
DeepSeek-V4-ProCN
91.4
———
6
GPT-6 AstraUS
91.3
—
41.4
43.4
7
GPT-5.5US
90.7
———
8
GLM-5CN
89.9
82.1
——
9
Gemini 3.1 ProUS
89.6
76.5
——
10
Qwen3.5CN
89.3
77.5
——
11
Claude Opus 4.5US
89.1
———
12
Claude Opus 4.7US
88.0
———
13
ChatGPT 5.1US
87.9
74.2
——
14
Claude Opus 4.6US
87.8
84.8
——
15
GPT-5.6 SolUS
87.6
—
44.3
—
16
Gemini 3US
86.4
75.3
——
17
Kimi K2.5CN
85.8
74.2
——
18
Mistral 3 FamilyEU
85.5
70.2
——
19
Grok 4.1US
80.8
74.6
——
20
GPT-5.3 CodexUS
—
77.8
——
21
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813CN
——
39.6
—
22
Qwen3.8-MaxCN
——
51.3
—
23
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95BCN
——
49.1
—
24
Grok 4.6US
——
50.7
—
25
Qwen3.6 PlusCN
—
76.8
——
26
Claude Fable 5US
—
89.2
38.1
43.3
27
GLM-5.3CN
——
50.3
14.3
28
Kimi K3CN
——
46.0
19.7
29
Claude Opus 5US
——
42.1
—
30
Claude Fable 5.1US
——
47.2
43.5
31
Muse Spark 1.3US
——
47.0
25.0
32
Grok 4.7US
———
32.0
33
Claude Opus 5.5US
———
46.4

33 flagships scored · coverage: Grounding 19/33 · Tool-Use 14/33 · τ³-Banking 12/33 · Knowledge 9/33. Click a column to sort.

Grounding ↑

Inverted Vectara HHEM hallucination rate (100 − rate). HHEM scores faithfulness when summarizing a given document — a proxy for RAG grounding, not full open-domain factuality.

Tool-Use ↑

τ-bench multi-turn task completion with policy adherence (retail/airline). Frozen: the authority stopped updating the task set. Kept because it is the only tool-use figure the 2025 and early-2026 models carry.

τ³-Banking ↑

τ-bench’s successor family, banking domain, run by Artificial Analysis. Find the right policy in ~700 linked documents, then execute the tool calls it prescribes. The only axis here that scores 2026-H2 models — and far harder than the τ-bench column, so never read the two side by side.

Knowledge ↑

AA-Omniscience Index, 6,000 factual questions across 42 topics. A wrong answer costs a point, saying “I don’t know” costs nothing, so the scale runs from −100 to 100 and 0 means as many right as wrong. It measures what the model knows without a document and whether it admits gaps — unlike Grounding, which checks fidelity to a text it was given.

Why recent models are missing
  • Function-Calling · Berkeley BFCL v4 (overall accuracy) — column not shown. Column is not rendered: ACTIVE_COLUMNS drops any metric with this status. BFCL has scored almost none of the frontier since 2025, and standalone call accuracy overlaps with the Tool-Use axis. Kept collectable so a revival needs no backfill — but it is not advertised anywhere the reader can see, and the page/SEO copy must not promise it.
  • Tool-Use · τ-bench (tau1 retail+airline aggregate) — the authority has moved on to τ³-Banking, carried by the `tau3_banking` column. Versions score different task sets, so their numbers are not interchangeable: adopting the successor means a new column here, never an overwrite of these values.

Enterprise reliability is measured by a handful of small teams, and their leaderboards stop and restart. A blank recent row here means nobody independent has scored the model — which is itself worth knowing before shipping it into a RAG pipeline.

The axes come from different evaluations with different methodologies and snapshot dates — read them as directional signals per axis, not a single combined ranking. Hover any score for its source.

Origin badges (US · CN · EU · CA) make the geopolitics explicit: scored here are 21 US, 11 China, 1 EU, 0 Canada. The frontier is a US–China race at the top, while the enterprise/RAG axis is exactly where the EU/Canada players (Mistral, Cohere) compete — when the canonical boards list them.