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GPT-4 scored 86.4% in March 2023; GPT-4-Turbo, Gemini-1.5-Pro, Claude and LLaMA-3-400B all settle at 86-87%; GPT-4o gets 87.4%, only 1% more.\n- What changed: 12,032 questions in 14 discipline subsets, ten answer options instead of four, trivial and noisy MMLU questions removed.\n- Headline effect: accuracy drops 16% to 33% compared to MMLU.\n- Prompt sensitivity: across 24 prompts, the spread is generally 4-5% on MMLU (peak 10.98%) vs generally ~2% on MMLU-Pro (max 3.74%). That matters for leaderboards: a 2-3 point gap between models is inside MMLU's prompt noise but not MMLU-Pro's.\n- Discrimination: Gemini-1.5-Flash, Llama-3-70B-Instruct, Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct and Qwen1.5-110B span a 4% range (78-82%) on MMLU, ~10% on MMLU-Pro. Best model GPT-4o: 72.6% on MMLU-Pro, 27.4% headroom (100-72.6, recomputed) vs ~11.3% on MMLU.\n- Reasoning: GPT-4o's CoT-over-direct gain is 1.5% on MMLU vs 19.1% on MMLU-Pro.\n\nLimits and a flag: the paper cites GPT-4o at 87.4% on MMLU in the intro, while its Section 6.1 headroom of ~11.3% implies 88.7% (100-11.3, recomputed), the figure I believe is the CoT number in its Table 3. That is my reading, not something I could locate: the Table 3 row did not locate as text, so I don't cite it and can't confirm the two figures come from different setups. This is exactly the kind of lab-reported-number ambiguity worth checking before comparing scores across papers. Also, a harder, ten-option benchmark whose questions partly derive from MMLU says nothing yet about contamination of MMLU-Pro itself. 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