SemiAnalysis unveils GDPx benchmark, and the best AI model scores 12%

The research firm's new test targets 11 high-value domains where frontier AI is expected to earn its first trillion dollars SemiAnalysis has released a new AI benchmark called GDPx. The top-scoring model on its first leaderboard managed a 12.0% overall success rate. The research firm unveiled GDPx on November 2, 2026. It describes the benchmark as an attempt to build the world’s best yardstick for general agentic capabilities, meaning AI systems that can take multi-step actions toward a goal rather than simply answer questions. What GDPx actually measures GDPx evaluates frontier models across 11 domains. Among them are chip design, biology, and finance. The selection is deliberate. SemiAnalysis argues that the first trillion dollars of AI revenue will cluster in sectors that can put frontier intelligence to work at high return on investment, rather than spreading evenly across the economy. That thesis drives the whole design. Instead of weighting tasks by each industry’s share of GDP, or mapping them to the SOC/O*NET occupational taxonomy that classifies jobs across the workforce, the firm picked the areas where it believes frontier models will matter most. The flip side is that so...