Blackhole
Black Hole — gravitational lensing visualisation.
What I asked each model — the Blackhole prompt
Every model on this page got this exact prompt inside the Agent Operating System: Black Hole — gravitational lensing visualisation.
Single HTML file out. No iteration. No examples in the system prompt. Whatever each model produced on the first run is what's on this page. 4 frontier models have attempted it so far: GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7, Opus 4.8, Grok.
Why this task matters. Blackhole is a textbook test of sim-class capability — the kind of build that exposes whether a model is doing pattern-matching or actual reasoning. Shipping this cleanly is the floor for what I expect from a frontier model — every model on the leaderboard should at least attempt it.
How each model handled Blackhole
Ranked by my 0–10 score from the source comparison guides on agentos.guide. Click any to play the actual one-shot HTML the model produced.
What I saw: Opus nailed it — a pure-black event horizon, a bright photon ring, and the disk bent up and over the top exactly like the film's lensing. GLM came in strong with a clean ring and a starfield warping past the hole. Kimi's disk is fine, but the background is a soft grey blur instead of stars. This one's Opus's.
What I saw: Opus nailed it — a pure-black event horizon, a bright photon ring, and the disk bent up and over the top exactly like the film's lensing. GLM came in strong with a clean ring and a starfield warping past the hole. Kimi's disk is fine, but the background is a soft grey blur instead of stars. This one's Opus's.
What I saw: Opus nailed it — a pure-black event horizon, a bright photon ring, and the disk bent up and over the top exactly like the film's lensing. GLM came in strong with a clean ring and a starfield warping past the hole. Kimi's disk is fine, but the background is a soft grey blur instead of stars. This one's Opus's.
Demo on the bench. Not scored yet — play it and form your own opinion.
The winner on Blackhole
Opus 4.8 took gold on this task. winner · hit the brief.
What I saw: Opus nailed it — a pure-black event horizon, a bright photon ring, and the disk bent up and over the top exactly like the film's lensing. GLM came in strong with a clean ring and a starfield warping past the hole. Kimi's disk is fine, but the background is a soft grey blur instead of stars. This one's Opus's.
See Opus 4.8's full model card: /models/opus. Direct head-to-head against the runner-up: Opus 4.8 vs GLM-5.2.
Every attempt — live, playable
Side by side. Click any tile to run that model's actual one-shot HTML in a new tab.
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▶ LIVEHow I scored Blackhole — methodology
Three axes, 0–10 each, averaged. Runs: drop the .html in a browser; if it opens to a broken page, it scores zero. Hits the brief: did the model ship the thing the prompt asked for, or a different thing it found easier. Looks good: visual polish, motion, interactivity — where most of the gap between gold and silver lives.
My scores trace back to the source comparison guides on agentos.guide. See the full methodology page for data provenance, including which source guide each cell's score came from.
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