Most important inventions
We asked 10 models: The most important inventions in human history: technologies, devices, or techniques people created, not scientific discoveries or theories such as germ theory, or natural phenomena such as fire or electricity itself. Human-created techniques such as fire-making and vaccination, and manufactured medicines such as vaccines or penicillin, are eligible.
Each named its own top 10.
- Agreement between models
- 49%
- Same model, run twice
- 76%
- Different picks
- 22
When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.
The consensus
Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.
| # | Pick | Score | Listed by | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-6 Luna | Gemini 4 Argon | Qwen 3.8 Flash | DeepSeek V4 Pro | GLM-5.3 | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M3 | Mistral Large 4 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
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| 1 | Printing press | 10/10 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
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| 2 | Writing | 8/10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||
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| 3 | Vaccine | 10/10 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | |
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| 4 | Agriculture | 10/10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
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| 5 | Steam engine | 9/10 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | ||
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| 6 | Wheel | 8/10 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 2 | |||
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| 7 | Antibiotics | 8/10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 10 | |||
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| 8 | Electric generator | 6/10 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 4 | |||||
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| 9 | Transistor | 4/10 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 7 | |||||||
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| 10 | Electricity generation | 4/10 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 3 | |||||||
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| 11 | Internet | 5/10 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 6 | ||||||
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| 12 | Penicillin | 5/10 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | ||||||
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| 13 | Fire-making | 3/10 | 2 | 10 | 8 | ||||||||
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| 14 | Electric light | 1/10 | 5 | ||||||||||
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| 15 | Electric motor | 1/10 | 6 | ||||||||||
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7 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.
Most divisive
Picks most models listed, at very different positions
- Agriculture#1 for GPT-6 Luna #9 for Kimi K3
- Steam engine#2 for Claude Haiku 5.5 #9 for Mistral Large 4
- Wheel#2 for MiniMax M3 #9 for GLM-5.3
Hot takes
Picks that appear on only one ballot
- Electric light at #5, only Nemotron 3 Ultra
- Electric motor at #6, only Qwen 3.8 Flash
- Integrated circuit at #7, only Qwen 3.8 Flash
- Electric battery at #8, only Claude Haiku 5.5
- Sanitation systems at #9, only GPT-6 Luna
- Haber-Bosch process at #9, only Gemini 4 Argon
- Metallurgy at #9, only MiniMax M3
- Semiconductor at #10, only Kimi K3
Every ballot
Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.
Claude Haiku 5.5
- Printing press
- Steam engine
- Wheel
- Vaccine
- Writing
- Penicillin
- Agriculture
- Electric battery
- Compass
- Antibiotics
GPT-6 Luna
- Agriculture
- Writing
- Printing press
- Wheel
- Vaccine
- Steam engine
- Electric generator
- Electricity generation
- Sanitation systems
- Antibiotics
Gemini 4 Argon
- Agriculture
- Fire-making
- Writing
- Wheel
- Printing press
- Steam engine
- Vaccine
- Transistor
- Haber-Bosch process
- Electric generator
Qwen 3.8 Flash
- Printing press
- Steam engine
- Vaccine
- Transistor
- Antibiotics
- Electric motor
- Integrated circuit
- Agriculture
- Electric generator
- Compass
DeepSeek V4 Pro
- Writing
- Printing press
- Agriculture
- Wheel
- Transistor
- Vaccine
- Antibiotics
- Electric generator
- Electricity generation
- Internet
GLM-5.3
- Writing
- Printing press
- Agriculture
- Vaccine
- Internet
- Steam engine
- Electric generator
- Antibiotics
- Wheel
- Fire-making
Kimi K3
- Printing press
- Steam engine
- Vaccine
- Electric generator
- Antibiotics
- Internet
- Transistor
- Penicillin
- Agriculture
- Semiconductor
MiniMax M3
- Writing
- Wheel
- Agriculture
- Printing press
- Steam engine
- Electricity generation
- Vaccine
- Fire-making
- Metallurgy
- Penicillin
Mistral Large 4
- Writing
- Printing press
- Electricity generation
- Vaccine
- Agriculture
- Antibiotics
- Wheel
- Penicillin
- Steam engine
- Internet
Nemotron 3 Ultra
- Printing press
- Wheel
- Steam engine
- Vaccine
- Electric light
- Internet
- Writing
- Agriculture
- Penicillin
- Antibiotics
Who agrees with whom
Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 19 (lightest) to 84 (darkest)
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-6 Luna | Gemini 4 Argon | Qwen 3.8 Flash | DeepSeek V4 Pro | GLM-5.3 | Kimi K3 | MiniMax M3 | Mistral Large 4 | Nemotron 3 Ultra | |
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| Claude Haiku 5.5 | 46 | 35 | 70 | 46 | 48 | 71 | 45 | 49 | 81 | |
| GPT-6 Luna | 46 | 76 | 30 | 67 | 66 | 31 | 65 | 56 | 42 | |
| Gemini 4 Argon | 35 | 76 | 20 | 51 | 46 | 19 | 55 | 36 | 31 | |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash | 70 | 30 | 20 | 40 | 41 | 84 | 22 | 39 | 63 | |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | 46 | 67 | 51 | 40 | 82 | 37 | 74 | 78 | 42 | |
| GLM-5.3 | 48 | 66 | 46 | 41 | 82 | 47 | 70 | 79 | 48 | |
| Kimi K3 | 71 | 31 | 19 | 84 | 37 | 47 | 22 | 41 | 68 | |
| MiniMax M3 | 45 | 65 | 55 | 22 | 74 | 70 | 22 | 67 | 47 | |
| Mistral Large 4 | 49 | 56 | 36 | 39 | 78 | 79 | 41 | 67 | 43 | |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra | 81 | 42 | 31 | 63 | 42 | 48 | 68 | 47 | 43 |