Greatest scientists

We asked 12 models: The greatest scientists in history. Each named its own top 10.

Agreement between models
91%
Same model, run twice
94%
Different picks
19

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Opus 5.5GPT-6.1 SolGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 MaxDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Grok 4.7Muse WonderKimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

4 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Opus 5.5

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. James Clerk Maxwell
  5. Galileo Galilei
  6. Aristotle
  7. Marie Curie
  8. Michael Faraday
  9. Louis Pasteur
  10. Antoine Lavoisier

90% with consensus · 97% self-consistent

GPT-6.1 Sol

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. James Clerk Maxwell
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Michael Faraday
  8. Antoine Lavoisier
  9. Louis Pasteur
  10. Niels Bohr

95% with consensus · 96% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. Marie Curie
  6. James Clerk Maxwell
  7. Louis Pasteur
  8. Michael Faraday
  9. Nikola Tesla
  10. Niels Bohr

100% with consensus · 98% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Max

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. James Clerk Maxwell
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Michael Faraday
  8. Louis Pasteur
  9. Niels Bohr
  10. Nikola Tesla

96% with consensus · 97% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. Marie Curie
  6. James Clerk Maxwell
  7. Nikola Tesla
  8. Louis Pasteur
  9. Niels Bohr
  10. Michael Faraday

97% with consensus · 96% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Marie Curie
  5. James Clerk Maxwell
  6. Galileo Galilei
  7. Louis Pasteur
  8. Niels Bohr
  9. Nikola Tesla
  10. Dmitri Mendeleev

93% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

Grok 4.7

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. James Clerk Maxwell
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Michael Faraday
  8. Louis Pasteur
  9. Dmitri Mendeleev
  10. Archimedes

95% with consensus · 98% self-consistent

Muse Wonder

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. Marie Curie
  6. James Clerk Maxwell
  7. Niels Bohr
  8. Louis Pasteur
  9. Johannes Kepler
  10. Michael Faraday

96% with consensus · 91% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. James Clerk Maxwell
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Louis Pasteur
  8. Nikola Tesla
  9. Alan Turing
  10. Niels Bohr

96% with consensus · 95% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. James Clerk Maxwell
  6. Marie Curie
  7. Michael Faraday
  8. Nicolaus Copernicus
  9. Nikola Tesla
  10. Louis Pasteur

95% with consensus · 91% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. Marie Curie
  6. Nikola Tesla
  7. Louis Pasteur
  8. James Clerk Maxwell
  9. Aristotle
  10. Leonardo da Vinci

95% with consensus · 87% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Marie Curie
  5. Galileo Galilei
  6. Nikola Tesla
  7. James Clerk Maxwell
  8. Louis Pasteur
  9. Michael Faraday
  10. Max Planck

93% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 86 (lightest) to 98 (darkest)

Claude Opus 5.5GPT-6.1 SolGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 MaxDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Grok 4.7Muse WonderKimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Opus 5.59290928887928889918687
GPT-6.1 Sol9295989390979394968989
Gemini 4 Argon9095969793959696959593
Qwen 3.8 Max9298969592989596979190
DeepSeek V4 Pro8893979593939796939594
GLM-5.38790939293909293909093
Grok 4.79297959893909395969090
Muse Wonder8893969597929393929291
Kimi K38994969696939593949391
MiniMax M39196959793909692949089
Mistral Large 48689959195909092939094
Nemotron 3 Ultra8789939094939091918994