GPT-5.4 Pro Takes New SOTA on Epoch's Frontier Index at 158

OpenAI's latest model variant nudged ahead on Epoch AI's composite benchmark, but the margins between frontier models continue to compress.

GPT-5.4 Pro claimed the top position on Epoch AI Research's composite frontier index with a score of 158, as @EpochAIResearch reported. The index aggregates performance across multiple benchmarks including APEX-Agents, ARC-AGI-2, and HLE — an evaluation suite increasingly focused on agentic capabilities rather than pure language tasks.

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