Top LLMs by task
A community ranking pins Claude 4.5 as the go‑to for writing and STEM tasks, Grok 4 for social content, and spotlights Gemini 3 Pro as a promoted contender. (x.com)
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 on November 24, 2025 as a flagship “Opus”‑class model aimed at complex coding, long‑horizon tasks and enterprise agents. (anthropic.com) anthropic.com) Independent and vendor reports record Claude Opus 4.5 at about 80.9% on the SWE‑bench Verified coding benchmark — a score Anthropic highlighted as the first model to cross the 80% threshold on that test. (syntax.ai) syntax.ai) xAI’s Grok 4 family is natively integrated with X and marketed for real‑time thread analysis, trend detection and social‑tone generation, with app and API variants exposing 128K–256K token context windows for long conversation and social streams. (x.ai) x.ai, cybernews.com) Google launched Gemini 3 on November 18, 2025 and rolled Gemini 3 Pro into the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, positioning it as a multimodal, vision‑and‑reasoning flagship for document, spatial and video understanding. (blog.google) blog.google, techcrunch.com) Benchmarks released around the Gemini 3 debut put Gemini 3 Pro at the top of several reasoning and multimodal leaderboards — including a reported ~1501 Elo peak on public text‑reasoning boards and leading GPQA/MMMU scores in early tests. (venturebeat.com) venturebeat.com, llm-stats.com) The community ranking reflected in the circulated post mirrors multiple public leaderboards and forum threads where task‑specific leaders vary by benchmark: coding and agent tasks often favor Claude Opus 4.5, social‑stream and real‑time use cases favor Grok variants, and multimodal/reasoning leaderboards show Gemini 3 Pro at or near the top. (lmcouncil.ai) lmcouncil.ai, grokipedia.com)
