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On TasteVal, Claude Opus 5.5 matches human experts' scores on AI R&D experiment selection and interpretation.

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The best model, Opus 5.5, significantly exceeds our human baseline with a compute multiplier of 2.30x (95% CI 1.15-4.37x), at roughly 1/30 of our expert baseliners’ average cost per attempt.

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TasteVal result comparing the best model to a baseline of 24 expert AI researchers.

On TasteVal, where a model chooses and interprets AI R&D experiments, Claude Opus 5.5 reaches the score of human experts with 2.3× less compute.

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Benchmark of research taste in AI R&D.

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