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SemiAnalysis launches GDPx; Opus 5.5 leads at 12%
SemiAnalysis said its new GDPx agentic benchmark covers 11 domains including chip design, and that Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 led with a 12% overall score.
Research firm SemiAnalysis on Monday published GDPx, a benchmark it said is meant to measure general agentic capabilities of frontier AI models across 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity and recursive self-improvement1.
On the v1.0 leaderboard, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 posted the highest overall score at 12.0%, SemiAnalysis said, followed by Google's Gemini 4 Carbon at 10.9% and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra at 9.6%1.
The public GDPx site lists 11 domains, 14 data partners and 206 tasks, with each domain weighted equally and each partner within a domain also weighted equally1.
SemiAnalysis said it chose domains it expects will absorb high-return uses of frontier models, rather than weighting tasks by share of GDP or occupational taxonomies used in older knowledge-work tests such as OpenAI's GDPval1.
The firm said Opus 5.5 was the strongest all-around model and led in quant trading, hardware design and chip design, while Gemini 4 Carbon led in biology and software engineering and GPT-6 Astra led in recursive self-improvement and materials science1.
Finance and legal tasks were so difficult that essentially every model scored zero, SemiAnalysis said1.
The authors said some overall scores, including for Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, are held down by safety classifiers, particularly in cybersecurity, biology and alignment, and that Muse Wonder Full was the strongest cyber model in their tests1.
Chip design is the only domain with three task partners — Aria, Arcverex and Ergodex — which SemiAnalysis said it overweighted because it expects AI spend on chip design to rise in 20271.
The firm said headline scores are pass@1 across three attempts per task, using a mix of binary and partial grading depending on the domain1.