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Stanford AI Index 2026: SWE-bench Saturated, Transparency Collapsing, China 2.7pp Behind

The 2026 AI Index dropped April 13 and the headline is that SWE-bench Verified went from 60% to nearly 100% in a single year while the top Chinese model now trails Anthropic's best by just 2.7 percentage points.

Published April 14, 2026
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