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AI War Tracker · May 27, 2026 — Sonar Reasoning Pro leads at 95.7

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  AI War Tracker May 27, 2026
Your daily briefing on AI models, leaderboard moves & research.
The state of play
🥇 Sonar Reasoning Pro (Perplexity) leads the index — 95.7
⚔️ R1 1776 trails by 0.3 at #2
🆕 12 new models added
🏰 Top 10: Perplexity ×2 · Google ×2 · xAI ×2 · Alibaba ×1 · OpenAI ×1 · Anthropic ×1 · DeepSeek ×1
What changed since yesterday
😴 Quiet day — leaderboard held. No rank changes, no category-lead flips.
Top of the leaderboard
1
Sonar Reasoning Pro Perplexity 95.7
2
R1 1776 Perplexity 95.4
3
Qwen3.7 Max Alibaba 92.3
4
Gemini 3.5 Flash Google 92.2
5
GPT-5.3-Codex OpenAI 91.5
Who leads whereBy category
Reasoning
Claude Opus 4.7 94.2
Coding
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale 89.6
Math
Grok-4 Heavy 100
Agents
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct 88.5
Multimodal
Claude 3.5 Sonnet 83.3
New modelsAdded to AI War Tracker
Also added: MiniCPM5-1B (OpenBMB, #404) · Gemini 2.5 Flash (Google, #101) · Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Google, #160) · Claude Opus (Anthropic) · OpenAI GPT (OpenAI) · Anthropic Claude Sonnet (Anthropic) · Google Gemini Flash (Google) · MoonshotAI Kimi (Moonshot AI) · Google Gemini Pro (Google) · OpenAI GPT Mini (OpenAI) · Anthropic Claude Haiku (Anthropic) · Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct (ByteDance, #96)
Recent papers
Advancing Mathematics Research with AI-Driven Formal Proof Search
May 21, 2026
Uniform Diffusion Models Revisited: Leave-One-Out Denoiser and Absorbing State Reformulation
May 21, 2026
Understanding Data Temporality Impact on Large Language Models Pre-training
May 21, 2026
Reducing Political Manipulation with Consistency Training
May 21, 2026
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling with Random Job Arrivals
May 21, 2026
CogAdapt: Transferring Clinical ECG Foundation Models to Wearable Cognitive Load Assessment via Lead Adaptation
May 21, 2026
Term of the dayFrom the glossary
DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA)
A fine-grained trainable sparse attention built on Multi-head Latent Attention, using a lightning indexer plus token selection.
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