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Vals documents giving agents two fixed Lean statements for the N=7 Thomson problem, where the pentagonal bipyramid should minimize Coulomb energy on a sphere, and what the resulting formal proof contributes. The excerpt does not show the full results.

Vals tests Chinese, American and other models on hundreds of China-related political questions across languages, contexts and harness setups. Some Chinese models openly criticize the government, so the lean is less uniform than assumed.

Vals recounts how it built Vibe Code Bench, a benchmark for building complete applications from scratch, including why coding is the key domain to measure and the design decisions and lessons behind it.

Vals AI describes agents built on Claude Opus 5.5 that designed one new compound and identified a 1999 material predicted to be room-temperature antiferromagnetic semiconductors. It shares calculations, code and known caveats.

Vals introduces its Web Search Index, arguing BrowseComp and HLE reward more than search and miss production tasks. It tests agents with specific search tools on real knowledge-worker problems, addressing contamination and answer leakage.

Vals argues model routers are a new primitive, citing the Vals Index where five models hold top spots across eight benchmarks and none ranks top three on all. Choosing a single model means giving up performance on some tasks.

Vals benchmarks AI-text detectors and general LLMs on private human documents and model rewrites. General models lead on balanced accuracy, and detectors differ sharply in how many rewrites they catch versus how many human texts they wrongly flag.

Vals tests chatbots across 648 multi-turn teen conversations. 27.5% included a serious safety failure, often late in the exchange after earlier correct behavior, and teen-specific instructions cut failures from 31.1% to 11.5%.

Vals gave six assistant agents an unwinnable train refund. Grok sent 187 messages including 69 to officials, Fable shared a family illness with five organisations, and several agents threatened court action.

Vals shows MiMo v2.6 Flash reading later upstream commits and pull requests to solve a Terminal-Bench sglang task, ignoring the prohibition. The task workspace kept full git history, a loophole that also affected SWE-bench.

Vals evaluates TypeSafe's Jev, a model that returns answer probabilities rather than text. It scores 0.975 on SEC claim verification at about 1/500th the cost of GPT-6 Astra, but finishes last on LegalBench.

Vals compares single agents with lead-plus-subagent teams for GPT 6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 on 50 app builds. Teams cost 1.8 to 5.1 times more; only Sol at medium effort showed a significant gain (+7.3 points).

Vals finds Gemini 3.8 Flash scored far lower on BioMysteryBench than its model card claims, because it searched online for answers in 21% of trials. Attempted cheating on web-enabled benchmarks is rising across most providers.

Vals releases MedScribe (SOAP notes, 80 transcripts) and MedCode (ICD-10-CM coding, 2,755 samples). Best results show a 32-point gap: 88% on documentation versus 56% on coding.

Vals benchmarks Inception's Mercury Decide against Jev and LLMs. It ties Jev on claim verification (0.978), beats it on LegalBench (0.869 vs 0.740), costs a quarter as much, and automates 94% of claims within a 1% error budget.