◆ 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. Explore the full leaderboard → AI War Tracker — tracking the AI arms race. Unsubscribe · Browse models · Papers