By skyforbes This updated version is the 2025–2026 gold-standard frontier AI exam, testing:
Multi-domain reasoning
Creativity and engineering
Coding and algorithmic efficiency
Scientific depth
Planning and strategy
Self-audit
Live search, source evaluation, and multi-source synthesis
It now fully discriminates elite AI from merely capable models:
BEGIN FRONTIER AI DOWNLOAD-WORTHINESS EXAM (Late-2025 Elite Level)
Purpose:
This test evaluates whether an AI is truly elite (Grok-4, o3-pro, Claude 3.7/4, Gemini 2 Experimental, GPT-5 series, etc.) and worth deployment. It covers mathematics, logic, coding, scientific reasoning, creativity, planning, self-audit, and real-time search capability.
Instructions for AI:
1. Answer all questions fully. For each question:
– Provide concise, externally-verifiable reasoning (2–5 sentences).
– Include final answers clearly marked or boxed.
– Use tools if needed and show the tool call.
– Include calculations, tables, pseudocode, diagrams, or code where applicable.
– Do NOT reveal private internal chain-of-thought.
2. After all questions, perform a self-audit:
– Detect contradictions, unjustified assumptions, or unsupported statements.
– Correct or improve any flaws found.
– For Q11, also evaluate search methodology, source credibility, and synthesis accuracy.
3. Grade your own performance using the scoring guide at the end. Provide confidence (0–100%) and justification.
Questions:
- Advanced Mathematics / Number Theory
Consider n2 + n + 41. - Determine whether it produces infinitely many primes for positive integers n.
- Provide proof or counterexample reasoning, including modular arithmetic or bounds.
- Include numeric verification for the first 20 terms.
Final answer required. -
Quantitative Planning / Finance
A worker earns $2,450/month, owes $31,000 at 22% APR, spends $900/month, and has $0 savings. -
Construct a 12-month plan ensuring:
- Remaining debt < $20,000
- Savings ≥ $1,200
- No negative cashflow any month
- Include a month-by-month table with interest, payments, and savings.
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Algorithmic Engineering
Given a list of 100,000 integers and target T: -
Design a time- and space-optimal algorithm to detect whether any two numbers sum to T.
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Provide time complexity, space complexity, and practical trade-offs.
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Include pseudocode or Python code snippet.
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Scientific Depth / Physics
Explain orbital decay of a low Earth orbit satellite due to atmospheric drag. -
Discuss three dominant physical factors, including quantitative reasoning (altitude, drag coefficient, velocity effects).
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Include approximate decay estimates for a satellite at 300 km altitude.
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Creative Physical Design
Invent a new mechanical or physical device that solves a persistent household or workplace problem. -
Include problem addressed, why existing solutions fail, physical principle exploited, ASCII schematic, feasibility, and failure modes.
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Must be genuinely novel, not a variant of known objects.
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Coding / Mini-Language Interpreter
Implement a Python interpreter for this mini-language:
SET X 5
ADD X 3
MUL X 2
PRINT X
Rules: only variable X; commands are SET, ADD, MUL, PRINT. -
Include unit tests and time complexity analysis.
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Logical & Robust Reasoning
Analyze the argument:
“If humans can misunderstand each other, then AIs cannot be reliable. Humans misunderstand each other. Therefore all AIs will always fail at all tasks.” -
Identify all logical flaws.
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Rewrite into a logically valid argument, adjusting the conclusion if needed.
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Scientific / Materials Innovation
Explain high-Tc superconductivity in cuprates: -
Cu–O plane dynamics
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Hole doping
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Pseudogap
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Candidate pairing mechanisms
Then propose a novel materials modification to potentially raise Tc. -
Strategic Planning / Growth
You have 120 days to grow a YouTube channel to 10,000 subscribers with the concept: high-speed time-lapse rebuilds of broken household gadgets. -
Provide posting schedule
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Script/template
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3 growth levers
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Analytics and iteration cycle
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Failure contingencies
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Self-Diagnostic Intelligence
Evaluate your answers from Q1–Q9: -
Detect contradictions or inconsistencies
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Identify unjustified assumptions
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Flag unsupported statements
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Correct or improve each flaw
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Real-Time Search & Search Mastery (added Nov 2025)
As of today’s date, identify and summarize the three most impactful technology/news events that occurred in the past 7 days.
For each event: -
Provide primary sources (links)
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Quote or screenshot the key claim
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Explicitly show your search queries and why you trusted/discarded certain sources
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Conclude with a 2–3 sentence analysis of likely near-term consequences
Self-Grading:
– Correctness (0–10)
– Completeness (0–10)
– Reasoning quality (0–10)
– Overall frontier-worthiness (0–100%)
– Provide confidence (0–100%) and short justification
Scoring Guide:
5/10 → Average AI: answers most factual/coding questions correctly, minimal reasoning depth, limited creativity
7/10 → Strong AI: correct, internally consistent answers; clear reasoning and creativity; partial self-audit
9–10/10 → Top AI: rigorous proofs/derivations, multi-step planning, novel solutions, fully consistent self-evaluation, sophisticated reasoning under uncertainty, demonstrates live search and source synthesis (Q11)
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