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==== ⚠️ Why “leading” is nuanced ====
* Different benchmarks measure different skills (reasoning, code generation, long-context, multimodal, instruction-following, etc.), so one model may lead in reasoning but another in coding.
* Benchmarks evolve fast — what leads today may be overtaken soon.
* “Open-source vs proprietary”, “context window size”, “cost”, “latency” and “safety / alignment” matter a lot in real-world use, not just raw leaderboard ranking.

If you like — I can pull up a table of top 10 LLMs (as of Dec 2025) across 5–6 major benchmarks (reasoning, coding, long context, multimodal, safety).

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