Why do these benchmarks often show models running on Max i.e. Opus 5.5 (max) is on the frontier? I would think it is never really economical to run max

> Gemini 4 Argon is a new leader in Pareto-frontier. Looks like, Google is back in the race.

For chat, yes. But switch to code on the same page, and the picture changes. OpenAI takes the lead.

Every release I see a new benchmark with a new frontier. These graphs are just meaningless now

Muse reminded me we should have a time based chart as well - this year I hope we will begin to see time to completion stats at various intelligence tiers. The waiting makes a lot of things more tiring.