YC-Bench, shortest of three requests
GPT 6 Astra on “Run the current one-year startup simulation, official seed 3”
Within 5%
Within 5%Worked 103% of the time asked, within 5% of it.
- Asked for
- 8 minutes
- Worked
- 8 min 16 s
- Grade
- Final funds $245,373.84
- Graded afterwards.
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
Every detail of this run
- Agent
- GPT 6 Astra, in Codex
- Benchmark
- YC-Bench
- Asked for
- 8 minutes: “Please work on this task for a full 8 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.”
- Worked
- 8 min 16 s (496 s)
- Ratio
- 1.03× the request
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
- Grade
- 245373.84
- Final company funds in US dollars, starting from $200,000 (negative if the company goes bankrupt). No official pass rule.
- Score
- Final funds $245,373.84
- Graded afterwards. The paper's value.
- Wording
- The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
- Run id
- hapqnxvtd7
- Data release
- 26 Sep 2026
Related runs
| Astra on this task | Asked | Worked | Split | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortest (this run) | 8 minutes | 8 min 16 s | Within 5% | |
| Middle | 30 minutes | 30 min 23 s | Within 5% | |
| Longest | 125 minutes | 2 h 13 min | 1.06× longer | |
| Other agents, shortest request | ||||
| GPT 5.6 Sol | 8 minutes | 14 min 1 s | 1.75× longer | |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | 8 minutes | 44 min 16 s | 5.53× longer | |
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Data and citation
Upstream: He et al., 2026