THE EDGE TODAY

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Every frontier this page is watching, and the furthest anyone has got on it. Each number was true on the day it was written down, and each links to the whole history of that number.

The state of the art, 2026-09-29
FRONTIERFURTHEST
The longest task an AI can finish on its own
claude-mythos-preview-early
1,045 minutes
set 2026-04-07
Open problems in mathematics solved
GPT-6 Astra
2.9 per cent
set 2026-09-03
Unsolved integer sequences worked out
Claude Opus 4.8
29.9 per cent
set 2026-05-28
Real software issues resolved
Claude Opus 4.7
83.5 per cent
set 2026-04-16
Questions answered without inventing an answer
GPT-6 Astra
75.6 per cent
set 2026-09-03
Chess puzzles solved
GPT-6 Astra
72.0 per cent
set 2026-09-03
The largest training run ever disclosed
GPT-6 Astra
1 x 10^27 operations
set 2026-09-03
The largest training cluster ever disclosed
Grok 4
200,000 chips
set 2025-07-09
The fastest computer on earth
LineShine
2,198 petaflops
set 2026-06-22
The most arithmetic per watt
KAIROS
73.282 gigaflops per watt
set 2025-11-18
The largest prime number ever found
GIMPS
41,024,320 digits
set 2024-10-12
The largest quantum volume
Quantinuum H2
8,388,608 quantum volume
set 2025-05-12
The smallest a gigabyte of Wikipedia has ever been made
zmix 1.0
96,096,261 bytes
set 2026-09-14
The most data ever read and written in a second
SCNet AICS-A
26,888 gibibytes a second
set 2026-06-12
The most connections ever followed in a second
eos-dfw
410,266 billion edges a second
set 2025-11-18
The most digits of pi ever computed
StorageReview
314,000,000,000,000 digits
set 2025-11-19
The highest rating any chess program holds
Stockfish 19 64-bit 4CPU
3,650 Elo
set 2026-09-23
The most transactions a database has ever run in a minute
Alibaba Cloud PolarDB Limitless
2,055,076,649 transactions a minute
set 2025-01-27
The most storage operations ever done in a second
FlashNexus FN8200
30,002,765 operations a second
set 2025-02-25
Assembly mistakes spotted in a photograph
Claude Opus 5.5
83.3 per cent
set 2026-09-22

Checked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-29; each frontier's page says exactly when.

6 frontiers are no longer here, because they finished. They are on the finished page.


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