Monthly report

July 2026

45.9 / 100

+3.1 from June

Confidence: Medium

July showed broad progress in coding and agents, with a meaningful robotics signal while reliability remained a constraint.

Category Scores

  • Agents50
  • Coding58
  • Reasoning45
  • Science33
  • Multimodal47
  • Robotics26
  • Reliability36

Top signals this month

  1. GPT-5.6 pushed coding, reasoning, and agentic work forward.

    OpenAI released GPT-5.6 on July 9 with stronger performance on long-running professional workflows and coding-oriented evaluations.

  2. Gemini 3.6 Flash strengthened the software side of the index.

    Google positioned Gemini 3.6 Flash as a more capable workhorse model for coding, knowledge work, multimodal tasks, and agentic systems.

  3. Gemini Robotics 2 created a clearer physical-world signal.

    Google DeepMind introduced whole-body control, advanced dexterity, embodied reasoning, and multi-robot collaboration in its Robotics 2 family.