Micah Hill-Smith

person · Co-founder and CEO, Artificial AnalysisCredibility: 70%

Why this score? Head of the benchmarking firm whose index this topic's model board is built on. Authoritative about his own firm's methodology and release schedule; an interested party when answering allegations that its methodology favours a particular lab, which is the circumstance of the statement recorded here. 0.7.

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I can assure you that we do not make changes to intentionally benefit any particular model. Adam is an angel investor in Artificial Analysis. He had no influence on these updates. No investor has ever influenced any benchmarking methodology decision, and we do not involve investors in these decisions in any way. I can specifically confirm OpenAI gave no feedback that related to the v4.2 or v4.3 upgrades.^?

— Micah Hill-Smith · Sep 14, 2026

Topic: state of ai/safety/evaluation integrity

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Context: Said after Artificial Analysis revised its Intelligence Index twice in ten days, moving OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra from fifth to joint first. Adam D’Angelo is an angel investor in Artificial Analysis and an OpenAI Foundation board member; that relationship is not in dispute. The denial is the interested party’s own.