The AI Compute Race Glossary HLE

HLE

What does “HLE” mean?

HLE

See Humanity’s Last Exam.

Humanity’s Last Exam A benchmark of expert-written questions across many fields, written to be hard for the best models; row 8 of the Scorecard reads the best model’s score on a text-only subset of its questions, and the Scorecard writes it HLE. The Scorecard.

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Where the record uses it

Sources that use it

  • Artificial Analysis, “Humanity’s Last Exam Benchmark Leaderboard,” accessed 30 August 2026 (Claude Fable 5, Adaptive Reasoning/Max Effort with Opus 4.8 fallback, scored 55.5% on Artificial Analysis’s 2,158-question text-only HLE evaluation; an independently preserved 15 August 2026 snapshot was not located). In the Sources
  • Artificial Analysis, “Intelligence Benchmarking Methodology,” Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2, September 2026 (HLE is graded by an equality checker using GPT-5.6 Luna at its medium setting; read 27 September and 3 October 2026). In the Sources

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From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

How to cite this page

Dryburgh, Lee S. “HLE.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/hle (accessed 2026-11-01).

BibTeX

@misc{dryburgh-hle-2026,
  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{HLE}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/hle},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}

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