Matrix
Matrix — Matrix-rain falling-glyphs animation.
What I asked each model — the Matrix prompt
Every model on this page got this exact prompt inside the Agent Operating System: Matrix — Matrix-rain falling-glyphs animation.
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. 23 frontier models have attempted it so far: Claude Fable 5, Fugu Ultra, Fugu Mini, Fusion, Gemini 3.6 Flash, GLM-5.2, GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok, Inkling, Kimi K3, MiniMax M3, Hermes MoA, Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5, Qwen 3.8, Qwen 3.7, Claude Sonnet 5, Kimi K2.7 · Fast, Kimi K2.7 · No-Think, Kimi K2.7 · Quality, DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Kimi K2.7.
Why this task matters. Matrix is a textbook test of visual-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 Matrix
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: Clean, dense katakana rain with proper fading trails, glowing bright heads, and a polished neon MATRIX title; screenshot shows a cyan hue (default green is genre-canonical) and the effect reads authentically, though it lands just shy of the field's best with fairly uniform column speeds and modest interactivity flair.
What I saw: Ultra v2 — Matrix rain. Smoke-test PASS (4.6%).
What I saw: Falling green Matrix rain. Smoke-test PASS, continuous animation.
What I saw: Classic Matrix-rain falling green glyphs with varying speeds + brighter leading char + Web Audio click beep on column reset.
What I saw: Stunning volumetric 3D depth with proper katakana glyphs, glowing head chars and light-streak trails in perspective — well beyond a flat 2D canvas rain. Rich UI with palette themes, orbit/zoom controls and EMP pulse pushes it above the field's best.
What I saw: Gorgeous authentic matrix rain with katakana/alphanumeric glyphs, bright white heads fading into green trails, plus tasteful scanlines, vignette, and glowing MATRIX title/HUD. Interactive pointer-bend and pulse/surge features push it above the field's best; only minor nit is the slightly busy overlay, but overall a clear task winner.
What I saw: Classic matrix rain. Smaller build (6KB) — straightforward implementation, on brief.
What I saw: Gorgeous dense glyph rain with katakana/symbol mix, glowing trails, and an Orbitron title that reads beautifully; the hue-shifting green-to-blue gradient is striking but drifts slightly from canonical Matrix green, keeping it just shy of the top.
What I saw: Screenshot shows crisp katakana glyph rain with bright leading heads fading trails, a glowing mouse-pulse orb, scanline/vignette CRT treatment and a strong glowing title — clearly on-brief and polished. Rich interactivity (6 themes, click bursts, mouse gusts, pause/fullscreen) and multi-layer depth push it to task-winner tier.
The winner on Matrix
Gemini 3.6 Flash took gold on this task. 3D volumetric matrix.
What I saw: Stunning volumetric 3D depth with proper katakana glyphs, glowing head chars and light-streak trails in perspective — well beyond a flat 2D canvas rain. Rich UI with palette themes, orbit/zoom controls and EMP pulse pushes it above the field's best.
See Gemini 3.6 Flash's full model card: /models/gemini36. Direct head-to-head against the runner-up: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GPT-5.6 Sol.
Every attempt — live, playable
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▶ LIVEHow I scored Matrix — 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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