AI IQ turns top language models into human-style IQ scores and sparks a fierce war over meaning

One number claims to measure “intelligence”

A startup behind AI IQ is converting dozens of frontier language models into an estimated human-style IQ, complete with an added “emotional intelligence” score and cost-performance views. The charts are praised for clarity, but slammed for implying precision from uneven, “jagged” capabilities and for methodological choices critics say may skew results. Meanwhile, enterprises are using the framework to route models by task and price.