GPT-5.6 has reportedly achieved an IQ score of 136 on Tracking AI's proprietary offline test, surpassing the human "genius" threshold of 130 for the first time. This places it above an estimated 99% of humans in this specific metric. The test is designed to prevent memorization by using a private question bank. Multiple GPT-5.6 variants, including the vision model, consistently scored 136, leading competitors like Claude-5 Fable (130). User anecdotes suggest practical superiority over rivals in real-world coding and problem-solving tasks, such as building a physics simulation or a customer service app from a single prompt. While some speculate this approaches AGI for most users, the article notes IQ tests only measure a narrow slice of cognitive ability like pattern recognition. The significance lies in GPT-5.6's apparent ability to translate high test scores into effective task performance on novel, real-world problems.
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