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AI Systems Closest to Consciousness (10)

Ranked by objective public data. Data snapshot 2026-09-22.

📏 Ranking Criteria

Rankings are computed from the authoritative public sources listed below, weighted into a single objective index.

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GPT-5 OpenAI

OpenAI's flagship multimodal reasoning model features long-chain reasoning and self-checking, participating in AI well‑being assessment.

97.5
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C

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

Anthropic's flagship model, trained with Constitutional AI for self‑reflection, leads metacognition research via model introspection experiments.

95.8
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3
G

Gemini 3 Pro Google DeepMind

Google's native multimodal large model is widely cited in consciousness theory benchmarks and machine mind studies.

94.6
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4 P
Project Astra Google DeepMind

DeepMind's real‑time multimodal agent continuously perceives and retains memory, approaching a stream of consciousness experience.

91.2
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5 G
Grok 4 xAI

xAI's flagship model excels with a real‑time internet world model and autonomous task execution capability.

88.4
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6 L
Llama 4 Behemoth Meta AI

Meta's open‑source flagship model, with open weights, lets global researchers replicate AI mind and safety experiments.

86.7
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7 D
DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek

China's DeepSeek open‑source large model sets a global open‑source benchmark for reasoning efficiency and chain‑of‑thought quality.

85.3
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8 Q
Qwen3-Max 阿里通义千问

Alibaba's ultra‑large model features strong tool use and autonomous agent planning capabilities.

83.9
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9 T
Thousand Brains Project Numenta

An AI architecture simulating the brain's neocortical "thousand‑brains" structure models world and self via reference frames.

76.5
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10 E
Eleos AI Research

An independent research institute focused on AI consciousness and model well‑being proposes an actionable AI welfare assessment framework.

72.8
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🔄 Data snapshot 2026-09-22

📚 Data Sources

This ranking is aggregated from the following authoritative sources:

OpenAI Research openai.com/research Anthropic Model Welfare www.anthropic.com/research Nature Machine Intelligence www.nature.com/natmachintell arXiv 人工智能意识研究报告 arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708

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