[R] Benchmarked 94 LLM endpoints for jan 2026. open source is now within 5 quality points of proprietary

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been doing a deep dive on model selection for production inference and pulled togethar some numbers from whatllm.org's january 2026 report... thought it was worth sharing because the trajectory is moving faster than i expected quick context on the scoring,, they use a quality index (QI) derived from artificial analysis benchmarks, normalized 0-100. covers AIME 2025, LiveCodeBench, GPQA Diamond, MMLU-Pro and τ²-Bench across agentic tasks where things stand right now: open source top 5: GLM-4.7...