Can frontier LLMs multiply numbers without using external tools?
This is a AI post classified by Jev as Frontier models (a model release), kept by the AI Radar because it carries real work, not commentary.
Can frontier LLMs multiply numbers without using external tools? Absolutely. Claude Opus 5 gets 100% accuracy on multiplications up to 20x20 digits (1200/1200 correct). This accuracy does require max reasoning, however! It's an extremely simple eval, but it becomes relevant again for measuring no-CoT capabilities, particularly of recurrent-depth architectures (such as GPT-6-Astra).
Posted by Maksym Andriushchenko (7.6k followers) 3 days ago · 274 likes · 22.3k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the AI Radar as Frontier models.
More AI work like this
- Les premières pièces totalement modélisés par GPT6-Astra — @DFintelligence
- gpt 5.6 terra = gpt 6 astra — @notjazii
- wow — @HarshithLucky3
- 🚨 Gemini 4 Pro is absolutely cooking — @Mr_Salio
- anthropic is about to mog everyone with new models — @notjazii
- woke people still don’t want to accept AIs good potential, while AI be like to them🖕🏻 — @SciTechera
- @AdamHoltererer — @AdamHoltererer
- GPT 6 Astra Pro builds OCD simulator: — @AdamHoltererer
Every post is read and classified by Jev (TypeSafe): what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 27.2k posts from 4.8k X accounts over the last 14 days, 1.2k tools, 19 markets. Collected every 5 minutes, fully re-ranked every hour — last update 2026-09-19 18:50 UTC. Full method.