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lechmazur/nyt-connections

Benchmark that evaluates LLMs using 759 NYT Connections puzzles extended with extra trick words

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How fast lechmazur/nyt-connections is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

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Stars +8 in 58 days

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Recent discussions about this repository across the web
  1. Sep 41 post

    • GPT-6 Astra is the new Extended NYT Connections Benchmark champion. GPT-6 Astra (xhigh) sets a new high score of 98.1, while high scores 97.7. Both outperform GPT-5.6 Sol while costing ~40% less per…

      Read full on Reddit

      r/singularity

  2. 22 days earlier
  3. Aug 131 post

    • DeepSeek V4 Pro improves substantially over the Preview version on the Extended NYT Connections Benchmark: 67.3 → 91.3. Grok 4.6 (high) does not improve over Grok 4.5 (high): 79.9 → 79.0. Grok 4.6…

      Read full on X, posted by @LechMazur

      @LechMazur · x.com

  4. 9 days earlier
  5. Aug 41 post

    • Qwen 3.8 Max improves on Qwen 3.7 Max on the Extended NYT Connections Benchmark: 85.1→ 88.3 but uses 2.1x as many reasoning tokens.

      Read full on X, posted by @LechMazur

      @LechMazur · x.com

  6. Aug 11 post

    • New results on the 940-puzzle Extended NYT Connections benchmark: DeepSeek V4 Flash: 89.6 Gemini 3.6 Flash: 89.0 Qwen 3.7 Plus: 74.8 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (high): 60.4 Qwen 3.7 Flash: 43.8…

      Read full on X, posted by @LechMazur

      @LechMazur · x.com

  7. 7 days earlier
  8. Jul 251 post

    • Opus 5 runs used ~40% fewer output tokens.

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  9. 8 days earlier
  10. Jul 171 post

    • Model Introduction Date vs Performance

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  11. 7 days earlier
  12. Jul 101 post

    • https://t.co/Vb7zSLCO8Y

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  14. Jul 11 post

    • https://t.co/XU8HVyt6Vy

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  15. 8 days earlier
  16. Jun 231 post

    • MiniMax-M3 greatly improves over MiniMax-M2.7 on the Extended NYT Connections Benchmark: 35.3 → 75.3.

      Read full on X, posted by @LechMazur

      @LechMazur · x.com

  17. Jun 191 post

    • https://t.co/1F4fDqpFbl

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