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The clock cuts frontier agents down to 44%

What changedRealtime-Bench evaluates dynamic tasks where delayed actions change the outcome under actual wall-clock inference latency. The best wall-clock success was only 44 percent and best Pass^3 was 36 percent; extra reasoning had mixed effects under time pressure.

A scatter plot compares model latency with reliable real-time task completion.

The useful part

Why it matters

The best wall-clock success was only 44 percent and best Pass^3 was 36 percent; extra reasoning had mixed effects under time pressure.

Keep in mind

Good to know

Coverage is limited to the benchmark's dynamic tasks.

Evidence

Primary source

arXiv

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