Benchmarks
Three groups now publish RSI measurements. This page says what each one measures. For their results, go to their pages; rsi.watch does not rank models.
RSI Index · Vals AI
Launched Aug 2026 · page updated 2026-10-01
- Four tasks: Compression (enwik8), LM Training, Harness Engineering, and Post-Training.
- Each task is scored on a log scale: 0 is the starting baseline, 0.5 a published, human or frontier-model reference, 1 the theoretical best. The index is the mean of the four.
- It ranks models.
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RSI Bench · Scale AI
Launch post 2026-08-07 · final 50 tasks due Nov 1
- Tests whether AI models can handle the stages of frontier AI development themselves.
- Publishes individual graded runs. When we checked, there was no aggregate model leaderboard.
- Open call for tasks: $2,000 per accepted task plus co-authorship. The code is MIT-licensed.
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DeepRSI · Hillclimb
Announced on X about 2026-10-12
- Announced by co-founder Jun Park as a measure of recursive self-improvement over 48 hours on ML tasks.
- We did not find a public leaderboard page. Task count and scoring method appear only in secondary coverage, so they are not listed here.
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Checked 2026-10-14.