| @DeepSeek_AI V4 Pro scores 59.7 on the Tuesday Work Index, our composite measure of frontier AI at work.
That is up 10… |
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| What should AI optimize for?
Not just efficiency. Not just engagement. Not just doing more work for us.
@echen joined… |
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| Taste isn't something you get from facts alone.
All expert work — whether it's designing a website, pushing the bounda… |
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| RT @echen: taste isn't a reasoning problem. you can't rubric your way from "correct" to "great."
great writing, design… |
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| No, a mystery model didn't just blow past Fable on agentic coding.
We ran Ox Alpha on our internal, unreleased agentic… |
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| SURGE MODEL REPORT: QWEN 3.8 MAX
Qwen 3.8 Max scores 58.7 on our Tuesday Work Index, our composite measure of frontier… |
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2026-08-20 |
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| Introducing Tuesday: A Frontier Index for AI at Work
Frontier models can solve extraordinary problems. But can they ge… |
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2026-08-19 |
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| RT @echen: it's tuesday morning. you have a stack of work in front of you.
read your email. understand the chart from … |
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2026-08-18 |
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| The easy coding problems are solved. The hard ones are the whole job now.
We're hiring senior engineers to find where … |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-08-06 |
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| We post-trained a model on office work. It also improved at coding. New paper from our research team!
The training run… |
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2026-08-05 |
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| Most engineers will use AI. A few will get to shape it.
We're hiring senior engineers to build the coding benchmarks f… |
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2026-08-03 |
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| Frontier Data, Off the Shelf.
The training data, evals, and RL environments we build for frontier labs, now available … |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-07-31 |
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| Our Chartography benchmark measures whether models can read professional charts.
@AnthropicAI’s contribution to scienc… |
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2026-07-27 |
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| Yesterday, Fable found a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, an 87-year-old problem.
Was that a one-off, or can… |
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2026-07-20 |
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| Today we rolled out Chartography: a benchmark for the charts professionals actually work from.
Kaplan-Meier curves, co… |
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2026-07-16 |
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| @OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launched yesterday, and its model card cites GDP.pdf, our benchmark built from real-world prompts and… |
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2026-07-10 |
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| Deeper Instructions, Stronger Generalization: Training on ComplexConstraints
Given the chance, a model will reward hac… |
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2026-07-01 |
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| Last week, we released HANDBOOK.md: a benchmark for long-context agentic instruction following.
HANDBOOK drops an agen… |
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2026-06-29 |
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| Introducing ComplexConstraints — a new IF benchmark designed to test whether models can handle the kinds of constraints… |
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2026-06-03 |
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| Congrats to the Microsoft AI team on MAI-Thinking-1!
There's an art and science to post-training - navigating tradeoff… |
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2026-06-03 |
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| We trained Qwen3.5 to match GPT-5.5 in tool use.
The important question around RL environments is: do they teach gener… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-06-02 |
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| length looks like authority. bullets look like rigor. flattery looks like understanding. emojis look like care.
none o… |
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2026-05-21 |
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| GDP.pdf was accepted to the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Reasoning
can frontier models handle the three-letter doc… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-04-29 |
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| We took a very different path to the frontier. Zero venture capital. Zero growth hacks.
To our entire team and the epi… |
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2026-04-17 |
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| 📄 Introducing GDP.pdf: an expert multimodal reasoning benchmark for the documents that run the world. 📄
We've spent ye… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-04-14 |
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| Big news: our CEO @echen has been named #73 on @Forbes' list of the 250 Greatest Living Self-Made Americans.
That's ab… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-04-09 |
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| Riemann-bench was just accepted at an ICLR 2026 workshop!
We built Riemann-bench to test moonshot mathematics. We work… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-04-03 |
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| When we built GSM8K with OpenAI five years ago, it represented the absolute frontier of what was possible. Today, the i… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-03-24 |
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| Let’s look at how frontier agents (even Opus 4.6, GPT-5.2, and Gemini 3.1 Pro!) struggle at solving tasks in Enterprise… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-02-26 |
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| Everyone’s building $100M "agentic" models, so we built a simulated company to see if they could actually hold down a j… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-02-20 |
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| We’ve finally done it. Forbes just ranked our CEO *54* spots above Taylor Swift on their America’s Greatest Innovators … |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-02-11 |
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| We put Opus 4.6 through our Hemingway-bench Writing Leaderboard. How did it fare?
Claude continues to dominate GPT-5.2… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-02-10 |
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| "Prognosticative pastry." "A hound circling a tree, nose to bark."
Believe it or not, those quotes aren't jokes. They'… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2026-02-04 |
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| Our CEO @edwinchenai just revealed what's really happening inside the frontier labs on Unsupervised Learning with @jaco… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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| We made the Inc 2025 Best in Business list.
Even though the Silicon Valley playbook says we shouldn’t exist.
We had:… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2025-12-12 |
1,429 |
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| Imagine measuring a personal assistant’s ability by asking them to write emails without using the letter "c" or any com… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2025-12-10 |
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| A new episode of Lenny’s Podcast with our CEO @echen just dropped.
What they covered:
• Why Anthropic and Google are … |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2025-12-08 |
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| GPT-5.1: now with 20% more warmth and personality 😅
When GPT-5 launched in Aug, users were furious that they lost 4o.
… |
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2025-11-12 |
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| Everyone's acting like models are ready to replace humans in work settings.
We put that to the test by creating an ent… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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| Is AI more likely to make you a billion dollars … or lose it? |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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| Teaching LLMs to follow instructions? Step 1.
Teaching them to have taste? That's the endgame.
An 8-line poem about th… |
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2025-10-21 |
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| A good model can typically ace an academic benchmark. But even the best model out there will often hit a wall as soon a… |
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| We’ve been chatting with our Surge Research Fellows - Fields Medalists, Harvard professors, frontier scholars.
The con… |
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| Infusing AI with humanity comes in many forms.
Sometimes it involves drinking. https://t.co/xK3cmtNPHG |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2025-09-26 |
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| Behind every “unsexy” failure is a real person who wasted real time. Kimberly just wanted to tweak a logo by emphasizin… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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| Thrilled to see @MetaAI launch 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗮𝟮, built inside their new 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗟 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 platform! 🚀
Proud that Surge AI help… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2025-09-25 |
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| SOTA coding models hit 67% on SWE-bench.
But the other 33%? They don’t fail quietly.
They fail expensively—hallucinati… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2025-09-23 |
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| Surge is not a body shop. We work with humans who are skilled, creative, unique (+ paid well, imagine!). So we deliver … |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2025-09-18 |
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| Some model failures take 100+ hours to find.
That’s the level of depth our experts bring to frontier robustness.
It's… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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| This week, @echen joined @l2k on Gradient Dissent to talk about what's actually happening in post-training right now.
… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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| The most important problems in AI aren’t on benchmarks. They’re in the boring, everyday friction users face.
- A teach… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2025-09-09 |
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| Recently, @TIME recognized @echen in their list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
As Edwin put it: "High-quali… |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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2025-09-08 |
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| Nice words from @timoreilly! https://t.co/U6TRiV2TND |
@HelloSurgeAI |
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| Small, focused teams can achieve incredible things — very proud of what we’ve built!
https://t.co/f1lIkCYOkG https://t… |
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