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Models got an order of magnitude better at following instructions in one year

calendar_today May 12, 2026 person Laurie Voss domain arize-ai

A year ago, frontier models started losing track of instructions somewhere around 200–300 simultaneous constraints. With 2026 models, that ceiling is closer to 2,000 — an order-of-magnitude jump. We re-ran IFScale to see how, and how each model fails. The post Models got an order of magnitude better at following instructions in one year appeared first on Arize AI .

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