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Nov 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Realtime-Bench: Real-Time Interactive Tasks Defeat Frontier Models Like GPT-6

NVIDIA and UT-Austin introduce Realtime-Bench, a benchmark testing 12 frontier models on real-time interactive tasks where environments evolve continuously; even the best model GPT-6 Astra achieves only 44% success, revealing that increased reasoning can hurt performance due to time constraints, and reducing latency alone is insufficient.