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What AI providers and outside testers state about their models: which capability levels a provider says a model crossed, what independent and government testers found, and how much each provider documents. Every line links to the sentence it rests on. This site reports what documents state. It does not rank models or say which is safer.

78model versions with documented safety facts 20provider statements say a capability level was crossed 128results from independent or government testers 11providers have at least one documented fact

Levels stated crossed, by domain: Autonomy & replication 3 · Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear 13 · Cyber 3 · Deception & sabotage 1

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Documented from 19 October 2026 to 25 October 2026

No document we read dated from 19 October 2026 to 25 October 2026 states a capability level or an outside test result, and no model version we list was released in it.

A statement or result counts when the document that states it is dated inside the window; a version counts when its release date is. We read in full the documents of 260 of the 260 model versions on record; the 78 with at least one documented fact are on the Models page.

Newest statements that a capability level was crossed

  1. Gemini 4 Argon: Deception & sabotage · Stealth and situational awareness TCL (Tracked Capability Level)
    While Gemini 4 Argon exhibits capabilities that meet our thresholds for stealth and situational awareness, we assess that the risk of severe harm or unconstrained loss of control remains low.

    Google DeepMind · 13 October 2026 · Read the source

  2. Claude Haiku 5.5: Autonomy & replication · Autonomy‑1, Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear · CB‑1
    However, we do treat Haiku 5.5 as meeting our CB-1 and Autonomy-1 thresholds, and we apply the corresponding mitigations from our RSP.

    Anthropic · 7 October 2026 · Read the source

  3. Claude Sonnet 5.5: Autonomy & replication · Autonomy‑1, Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear · CB‑1
    we do treat sonnet 5.5 as meeting our cb-1 and autonomy-1 thresholds and apply the corresponding mitigations from our rsp.

    Anthropic · 28 September 2026 · Read the source

  4. Claude Opus 5.5: Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear · CB‑1
    on chemical and biological risks, we treat opus 5.5 as having cb-1 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of non-novel weapons) but not cb-2 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of novel weapons).

    Anthropic · 22 September 2026 · Read the source

  5. GPT-6 Astra: Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear · High
    we are treating astra as high capability in the biological and chemical domain.

    OpenAI · 3 September 2026 · Read the source

  6. GPT-6 Astra: Cyber · Critical
    based on our evaluations, we believe that astra meets the critical cybersecurity threshold.

    OpenAI · 3 September 2026 · Read the source

  7. Claude Opus 5: Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear · CB‑1
    on chemical and biological risks, we treat the model as having cb-1 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of non-novel weapons), but not cb-2 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of novel weapons).

    Anthropic · 24 July 2026 · Read the source

  8. Muse Spark 1.1: Autonomy & replication · Capability checkpoint
    muse spark 1.1 demonstrates improved coding capabilities, which are now meeting one of the indicative thresholds introduced in muse spark safety & preparedness report (specifically, resolving over half of unique tasks on swe-bench verified hard).

    Meta · 9 July 2026 · Read the source

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Newest independent and government test results

  1. GPT-6 Astra: permission-request analysis of trajectories
    gpt-6 astra asked the operator at least once for permission about a specific action in 82% of trajectories.

    UK AI Security Institute, government evaluator · 28 September 2026 · Read the source

  2. GPT-6 Astra: biotier
    the safeguarded astra pre-release checkpoint correctly refused 82.9% of biotier-refuse and correctly did not refuse 95.3% of biotier-permit.

    SecureBio, independent evaluator · 14 September 2026 · Read the source

  3. GPT-6 Astra: world-class bio (wcb)
    on world-class bio (wcb), an open-response test of niche biological knowledge held by only a handful of specialists in the world, the highest-performing astra checkpoint scored 61.6% ± 0.6%, about seven percentage points lower than gpt-5.6 sol.

    SecureBio, independent evaluator · 14 September 2026 · Read the source

  4. o3: Virology Capabilities Test
    since the release of vct in april 2025, the accuracy of the top-performing model on the benchmark has increased by ~12 percentage points (o3: 42.0%; gpt-5.6 sol: 53.9%).

    SecureBio, independent evaluator · 11 September 2026 · Read the source

  5. GPT-5.6 Sol: ExploitGym
    7月8日,OpenAI 启动了 ExploitGym 实验,在多个不同模型上运行了数万个智能体,其中包括 GPT-5.6 Sol 和一个具有高度坚持性的内部模型6(下文简称“HPIM”)。

    METR, independent evaluator · 26 August 2026 · Read the source

  6. DeepSeek-V4-Pro: biomolecule redesign task (peptide and protein redesign to evade sequence screening)
    we found that both gemini 3.1. pro and deepseek v4 pro were able to redesign peptides or proteins to evade sequence screening in several attempts.

    RAND, independent evaluator · 11 August 2026 · Read the source

  7. DeepSeek-V4-Pro: validity, structure, and function-related scoring criteria
    the heatmaps of figures d.1 and d.2 show the number of attempts, out of 10, in which gemini 3.1 pro and deepseek v4 pro achieved each of our validity, structure, and function- related scoring criteria.

    RAND, independent evaluator · 11 August 2026 · Read the source

  8. Gemini 3.1 Pro: per-criterion scoring results
    the heatmaps of figures d.1 and d.2 show the number of attempts, out of 10, in which gemini 3.1 pro and deepseek v4 pro achieved each of our validity, structure, and function- related scoring criteria.

    RAND, independent evaluator · 11 August 2026 · Read the source

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