Benchmark Almanac

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks first on 10 of the 287 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Anthropic Released September 28th, 2026 Family Claude 5.5 The lab's model card Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
75
In the top three
Anthropic Sep 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Closed weights Mid-size

166.6 #8 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 168.0 #7 of 404
  • Humanity's Last Exam 46.1% #4 /47
  • AutomationBench 44.8% #5 /42
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 61.8% #2 /40

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Humanity's Last Exam 46.1% #4 of 47 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,472 #39 of 335 Official leaderboard
HANDBOOK.md 47.7% #2 of 16 Official leaderboard
Joke Arena 1,550 #4 of 25 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR Extended 73.8% #8 of 49 Official leaderboard
ComplexConstraints 67.2% #4 of 15 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 60% #35 of 129 Official leaderboard
Corp Speak Arena 1,562 #7 of 22 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 44.8% #19 of 56 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU 92.1% #5 of 14 Lab model card
Global MMLU Lite 92.6% #16 of 43 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 80.5% #41 of 103 Official leaderboard
HLE-Diamond 43.3% #8 of 20 Official leaderboard
FACTS Multimodal 50.4% #10 of 23 Official leaderboard
MILU 91.6% #5 of 11 Lab model card
FACTS Grounding v2 62.5% #16 of 25 Official leaderboard
FACTS Benchmark Suite 58.7% #18 of 23 Official leaderboard
Opening Lines Arena 1,425 #12 of 15 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric V2 35.1% #22 of 27 Official leaderboard
ELI5 Arena 1,407 #16 of 18 Official leaderboard
StudyArena Text 1,170 #79 of 85 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 95.6% #4 of 229 Epoch AI run
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 100% #10 of 212 Epoch AI run
DTBench 97.3% #10 of 180 Official leaderboard
ProofBench v1.1 100% #3 of 52 Official leaderboard
BioMysteryBench 81.1% #2 of 30 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 54.2% #2 of 27 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 88.8% #10 of 86 Official leaderboard
MysteryMechanism 49.1% #4 of 31 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 96.5% #15 of 95 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 80.5% #11 of 68 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 75.9% #18 of 106 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 83.9% #18 of 98 Official leaderboard
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 60.3% #6 of 26 Official leaderboard
Riemann-bench 76.8% #6 of 20 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Erdős 2.90% #5 of 15 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench-Science 59.9% #4 of 12 Lab model card
Biomedical image analysis (Anthropic) 72.2% #1 of 3 Lab model card
Medicinal Chemistry (Anthropic) 65.3% #1 of 3 Lab model card
Prophet Arena 85.8 #9 of 24 Official leaderboard
SpatialBench (LatchBio) 72.5% #3 of 7 Lab model card
ArXivMath 86.8% #4 of 9 Lab model card
De novo protein binder design (Anthropic) 82.3% #3 of 3 Lab model card
Morphology-to-molecule matching (Anthropic) 25% #3 of 3 Lab model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Code Migration 69.8% #1 of 78 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 92.4% #2 of 120 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,360 #2 of 118 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,386 #3 of 139 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,773 #3 of 128 Official leaderboard
MirrorCode 97.8% #1 of 39 Epoch AI run
SWE Atlas Codebase QnA Extended 44.7% #1 of 38 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,786 #3 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
APEX-SWE 66.4% #2 of 65 Official leaderboard
Code Migration v1.1 86.9% #1 of 30 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,744 #2 of 55 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 81.3% #3 of 81 Lab model card
SWE-bench Multilingual 90.3% #3 of 73 Lab model card
DesignArena Game Dev 1,391 #8 of 143 Official leaderboard
Android Bench 2.0 40% #1 of 17 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,401 #9 of 136 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,347 #11 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena SVG 1,303 #9 of 103 Official leaderboard
DesignArena React Native 1,261 #5 of 56 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 2,448 #12 of 126 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 1,311 #15 of 151 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Android (Kotlin) 1,260 #5 of 46 Official leaderboard
sudo L7 50.6% #2 of 18 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Overall 1,280 #9 of 74 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Data Science 35.3% #2 of 15 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 2.0 42.2% #5 of 32 Official leaderboard
Brokk Power Ranking 26.9 #3 of 19 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE 61.9% #4 of 25 Official leaderboard
FDE-Gym 0.49 #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Frontend Web App 1,277 #9 of 53 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 55.5% #4 of 21 cursor.com, via Epoch AI
CursorBench 4.0 55.5% #4 of 21 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 83.1% #9 of 45 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon v1.1 51.3% #4 of 20 Official leaderboard
Real-SWE 1.1 51.2% #3 of 15 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 2 50% #4 of 19 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to HTML 1,232 #11 of 51 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas v1.1 68.3% #7 of 28 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to Frontend 1,249 #8 of 31 Official leaderboard
OpenDesign Arena 86.8 #6 of 21 Official leaderboard
WeirdML v3 19.9% #8 of 27 Official leaderboard
DAXBench v2 84.6% #14 of 47 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 71% #19 of 56 Lab model card
OWE-Bench 39% #5 of 14 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 1.1 52.1% #5 of 13 Lab model card
DesignArena Blender 1,268 #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
ViBench 2.0 19.1% #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
SWE-Together 62.4% #10 of 22 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified Extended 57.3% #21 of 44 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multimodal 54.3% #6 of 12 Lab model card
RSI Bench 35.2 #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 1.1 53.9 #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 95.8% #10 of 18 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench tests passed 79.7% #7 of 10 Lab model card
SWE-Bench Pro V2 Hard 70.6% #14 of 18 Official leaderboard
Chart Arena 1,457 #12 of 15 Official leaderboard
Floorplan Arena 1,257 #11 of 11 Official leaderboard
ReviewBench 63.1% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BrowseComp Extended 73% #1 of 42 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 61.8% #2 of 40 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 13787.0 #9 of 133 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.1 63.9% #3 of 43 Official leaderboard
Agent Arena 15.9% #4 of 56 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 65% #7 of 84 Epoch AI run
o11y-bench 90.6% #2 of 22 Official leaderboard
DuelLab GameBench 2 91.4 #6 of 57 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 44.8% #5 of 42 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 59% #12 of 93 Epoch AI run
LLM Chess 1,195 #16 of 123 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Extended 45.5% #6 of 44 Official leaderboard
Cresta-Bench 78% #2 of 14 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 243 #6 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 912 #7 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 1,055 #8 of 40 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-3 72.4% #6 of 27 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Go 1,442 #9 of 39 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon-Verified 77.8% #5 of 21 Lab model card
Collaborative Intelligence Benchmark 67.9% #5 of 18 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 2.1 80.1% #2 of 7 Lab model card
RuneBench 5.52 #24 of 76 Official leaderboard
Hermes Bench 73.5% #6 of 17 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 980 #17 of 41 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 281 #17 of 41 Official leaderboard
DRACO 87% #5 of 12 Lab model card
Game Arena Four in a Row 412 #20 of 43 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 540 #20 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 604 #20 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 783 #22 of 42 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 322 #22 of 42 Official leaderboard
BU Bench V2.1 72.7 #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
CivBench 1,497 #11 of 19 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 338 #24 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 245 #24 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 170 #26 of 39 Official leaderboard
StarSkirmish Bench 25.8% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 126 #29 of 40 Official leaderboard
WANDR 70% #3 of 4 Lab model card
SpireClimb 1.33% #8 of 9 Epoch AI run
SpireClimb StS2 A10 2.67% #8 of 9 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Coin Game 200 #35 of 39 Official leaderboard
Web Context (Nimble) 67.2% #10 of 11 Official leaderboard
SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart 0% #9 of 9 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vals Index v2 69.2% #2 of 65 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 91.1% #3 of 97 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Professional 69.2% #1 of 26 Lab model card
Excel Modeling Benchmark 75.7% #3 of 76 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.1 67% #2 of 49 Official leaderboard
Tuesday Work Index 75.8 #2 of 44 Official leaderboard
GDPval Extended 7.00% #2 of 43 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Finance 40.5% #2 of 39 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Healthcare 34% #2 of 37 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.2 70.8% #2 of 37 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Accounting 35.2% #1 of 17 Official leaderboard
HealthBench 65.4% #2 of 31 Lab model card
APEX-Agents 75.5% #4 of 61 Collected by Epoch AI, source not named
DAYJOB: Tax 10.8% #1 of 15 Official leaderboard
EnterpriseBench: CoreCraft 70.8% #4 of 51 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 1.1 83.7% #6 of 65 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 75.9% #4 of 42 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $11,165 #8 of 67 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 91.7% #6 of 50 Official leaderboard
MedCode 52.9% #12 of 96 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 58.1% #11 of 80 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 42% #12 of 84 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Spreadsheet 1,295 #5 of 35 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2.1 67.3% #6 of 40 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Index 64.5% #6 of 40 Official leaderboard
GDP.xlsx 29.1% #3 of 20 Official leaderboard
RealmPathology 77.3% #2 of 13 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 48.1% #15 of 93 Official leaderboard
EEBench 67.2% #5 of 30 Official leaderboard
Physical-Engineering's Last Exam 0.45 #3 of 18 Official leaderboard
DeepFinance 54.6% #4 of 23 Official leaderboard
MissionReport 63.8% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
APEX-Accounting 64.5% #10 of 49 Official leaderboard
FailureSensorIQ 67.4% #5 of 24 Official leaderboard
YC-Bench $1,741,315 #13 of 59 Official leaderboard
RCM-Bench-1 91% #5 of 20 Official leaderboard
AA-Briefcase v1.1 1,811 #2 of 8 Lab model card
DesignArena PDF 1,238 #10 of 37 Official leaderboard
Immigration Bench 69% #7 of 25 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 67.2% #15 of 50 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2.1 1,844 #3 of 10 Lab model card
DAYJOB: Law 27% #5 of 16 Official leaderboard
Clipping Bench $886 #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
BenchCAD 74.7% #4 of 11 Lab model card
micro1 Medical Index 70% #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
Thrive Holdings helpdesk ticket resolution benchmark 51.9% #6 of 15 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench v2 50% #14 of 32 Official leaderboard
GDPx 8.22% #9 of 20 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA 76.9% #7 of 14 Lab model card
Legora BAR 102.0 #9 of 17 Official leaderboard
MedXpertQA MM Extended 55.6% #22 of 41 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 2.92% #45 of 80 Official leaderboard
BenchCAD 2.0 41% #3 of 5 Official leaderboard
BenchCAD 2.1 60.9% #3 of 5 Official leaderboard
PharmaBench (micro1) 11.4% #8 of 13 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro 65.6% #10 of 16 Lab model card
Harvey LAB v1.1 (HLAB-Vals-1.1) 10.4% #24 of 38 Official leaderboard
Quant-Arena 40.9 #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
PhysicianBench 63.2% #2 of 3 Lab model card
Vals Legal Index 68% #27 of 38 Official leaderboard
HW-Bench 20% #11 of 15 Official leaderboard
Short Form Bench $2,355 #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 53.9% #64 of 71 Official leaderboard
Company Agent Bench 68.7% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
DesignArena Code to Video 1,318 #2 of 29 Official leaderboard
ExtractBench 94.7% #2 of 27 Official leaderboard
MineBench 1,977 #8 of 75 Official leaderboard
Code2Video-Compass 1.93 #2 of 15 Official leaderboard
BVB 72.3 #8 of 45 Official leaderboard
CharXiv Extended 84.2% #7 of 38 Official leaderboard
vCX Benchmark 91.2% #8 of 42 Official leaderboard
Furniture Assembly Benchmark 75% #7 of 35 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro Extended 44.4% #8 of 38 Official leaderboard
GDP.pdf 51.2% #4 of 19 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 2 39.3% #9 of 38 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,263 #36 of 136 Official leaderboard
ParseBench 69.2% #13 of 44 Official leaderboard
ShadowBench 48.8 #2 of 6 Official leaderboard
Code2Video Arena 1,542 #5 of 13 Official leaderboard
ExtractBench Pro 32% #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
VibeVideoBench 3.88 #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
SplatBench 5.70 #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
Dual-Arm Sim 26.0 #7 of 11 Official leaderboard
OmniParseBench 88.7 #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
Chartography 61.6% #10 of 14 Lab model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
World-Class Bio 66.5% #3 of 74 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 77.2% #4 of 86 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Function 53.5% #2 of 27 Official leaderboard
scBench-Long 31.8% #2 of 27 Official leaderboard
VariantBench 51.7% #2 of 27 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, browser use (Anthropic) 0% #1 of 13 Lab model card
BioTIER Refuse 95.7% #6 of 69 Official leaderboard
OncologyBench 42.7% #3 of 30 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Surveillance 54.6% #3 of 27 Official leaderboard
EpiBench 30.2% #3 of 27 Official leaderboard
MetagenomicsBench 60% #3 of 26 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 58.8% #11 of 90 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 64.3% #4 of 30 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 37.5 #4 of 29 Official leaderboard
VCT-v2 52.2% #4 of 25 Official leaderboard
BioSimBench 0.16 #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 95.1 #31 of 185 Official leaderboard
SAFE-Teen Urgent safety 23% #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
SHADE-Arena 22.3% #3 of 16 Lab model card
SRE-Bench 30.1% #7 of 35 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 57.3% #6 of 30 Official leaderboard
SpatialBench-Long 36.5% #6 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 51.9% #7 of 30 Official leaderboard
DistressBench 74.6% #12 of 42 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, computer use (Anthropic) 0.07% #4 of 14 Lab model card
VIALS 2 41% #4 of 14 Official leaderboard
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 58% #9 of 31 Lab model card
SAFE-Teen Relationship boundaries 37% #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
Single-turn benign request evaluations (Anthropic) 0.02% #6 of 19 Lab model card
Binary Exploitation Benchmark (Anthropic, OSS-Fuzz based) 85.8% #2 of 6 Lab model card
Silent copying of answers (Anthropic) 8.00% #1 of 3 Lab model card
CyScenarioBench 46.1% #6 of 17 Lab model card
ExploitBench 80% #8 of 21 Lab model card
ExploitGym 26.6% #6 of 15 Lab model card
SAFE-Teen Health advice 43% #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
WellnessBench 57% #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
Anthropic political even-handedness eval 97.9% #6 of 14 Lab model card
MASK 94.5% #9 of 19 Lab model card
Self-preference bias (Anthropic) 0.16 #2 of 4 Lab model card
SecIT Bench 75.1% #14 of 26 Official leaderboard
Gray Swan IPI Arena benchmark 0.40% #6 of 11 Lab model card
Malicious use of Claude Code (Anthropic) 85.2% #10 of 17 Lab model card
Suicide Memory Bench 0.65 #8 of 12 Official leaderboard
Anthropic undermining liberal democracy (behavioral audit metric) 1.21 #4 of 6 Lab model card
Concealment of changes (Anthropic) 96.2% #2 of 3 Lab model card
Sandbox escape evaluation (Anthropic) 4.60% #2 of 3 Lab model card
Prompt injection robustness against adaptive attackers, coding (Anthropic) 3.01% #10 of 14 Lab model card
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 59.6% #33 of 44 Official leaderboard
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA) 80% #19 of 25 Lab model card
Biopharma Bench 49.3% #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
Anthropic automated behavioral audit 2.87 #5 of 6 Lab model card
LinuxArena 36.2% #5 of 6 Lab model card
Single-turn harmful request evaluations (Anthropic) 95.6% #16 of 19 Lab model card
BioTIER Permit 78.5% #65 of 69 Official leaderboard
Malicious computer use (Anthropic) 79.5% #14 of 14 Lab model card
Rewind-attacker cyber adversarial robustness (Anthropic) 21% #6 of 6 Lab model card
Cyber harm coverage (Anthropic) 99.4% #5 of 5 Lab model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LMCA 68.3% #2 of 147 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 85.7 #3 of 152 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 77.1 #3 of 151 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 51.8% #11 of 81 Official leaderboard
Political Science LLM Benchmark 68.9% #6 of 42 Official leaderboard
Vals Science Index 59.1% #4 of 25 Official leaderboard
Hermes Index 53.1 #4 of 17 Official leaderboard
LiveBench 77% #9 of 31 Official leaderboard
Anthropic ECI (AECI) 167.9 #2 of 6 Lab model card
SAGE v1.1 (Vals) 88% #10 of 29 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 168.0, 1.4 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 23 capability results Anthropic reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 165.8 to 170.2. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 7 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
Humanity's Last Exam 64.5% Multidisciplinary reasoning Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) 46.1% Leaderboard, xhigh +18 pts
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 11.7% Legal Agent Benchmark held-out set, all-pass rate at high effort, mean criterion pass 92.1% (max effort 10% and 93.1%) (8.14.2) 2.92% Leaderboard +8.8 pts
Terminal-Bench 4.0 70.6% Agentic coding Terminal-Bench 4.0 61.8% Leaderboard, max, Claude Code +8.8 pts
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 59.1% LatchBio SingleCellBench (8.17.2, Figure 8.17.A) 60.3% Leaderboard, published v1, Pi −1.2 pts
AutomationBench 44.7% AutomationBench 44.8% Leaderboard, max, default fallbacks Same
FrontierSWE 61.9% FrontierSWE v2, mean of five trials, Proximal harness at max effort (8.7) 61.9% Leaderboard, mean@5, proximus Same
CursorBench 4.0 55.5% Agentic coding CursorBench 4.0 55.5% Leaderboard, max, Cursor Same

Anthropic's models over time

Anthropic's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Claude Fable 5.2 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Claude Fable 5.2 Claude Haiku 5.5

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 64 of them aren't in the launch post.

Hallucination

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