AI from Google scored 130 IQ points, but it means nothing

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Gemini 3 Pro became the first artificial intelligence to achieve an IQ of 130. And this is simultaneously impressive and means nothing.

The preview version scored 130 points in the offline benchmark Mensa. A special version of the famous IQ test, adapted for evaluating artificial intelligence. The tasks are rewritten and not disclosed so that models cannot be additionally trained on them. Models with computer vision are shown the test in pictures, the rest are explained in text.

Gemini 3 Pro pulled ahead by 4 points from the previous leader Grok 4 Heavy from the 300-dollar subscription. Where several versions of the model work on the task at once. Then come Claude Opus 4 and 1, GPT-5 Thinking and GPT-5 Pro.

A curious detail, but in classic Mensa Norway all leading models show higher results. This means that at least part of the tasks from the test got into their training corpora. The average human IQ level equals 100 points, and the result of Gemini 3 Pro turns out to be among the 2 percent of the best people in the offline test.

But here’s what’s really important. The author of the offline benchmark Maxim Lott directly warns: his charts do not mean “victory of machines over people”. He measures a very narrow skill — the ability to solve abstract matrices from pictures.

And in real life, intelligence is much broader: common sense, intuition, motivation, experience, responsibility. And here people have no competitors yet. Artificial intelligence learned to crack puzzles better than 98 percent of people. But this still doesn’t make it smarter than a person.

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