Poetiq’s harness — not a new model — takes ARC-AGI-2 to 75% at under $8 a problem, beating the previous state of the art by roughly 15% without touching the base weights. The scaffolding thesis the corpus has tracked since issue 002 now produces the headline result outright.
The Epoch Capabilities Index supplies the mechanism: frontier improvement rates nearly doubled after April 2024, on the shift to reasoning.