Epoch AI - Lambada: leaderboard

Tests prediction of the final word of a passage where the answer requires understanding the full preceding context, measuring long-range coherence and narrative comprehension.

Metric: Score. Source: epoch.ai. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 26 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1text-davinci-00186.4#1512
2Llama 2 70B Base78.9#1025
3LLaMA-65B77.7#1303
4falcon-40B77.3#1442
5Llama 2 13B76.5#1436
6LLaMA-13B75.2#1516
7falcon-7B74.9#1598
8Llama 2 7B73.3#1520
9LLaMA-7B73.3#1564
10internlm-20B71.8#1296
11StableBeluga271.3#1078
12Qwen-14B71.1#1171
13mpt-7B70#1619
14Qwen-7B67.9#1402
15internlm-7B67#1517

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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