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EQ-Bench Emotional Intelligence Benchmark

xAIX · Nov 17, 2025 · official

EQ-Bench Emotional Intelligence Benchmark

xAI's benchmark bar chart drew 841.4K views on X: 6.4x its median post and #110 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

EQ-Bench Elo scores for leading AI models

XData Benchmark bar chart Grok 4 All xAI models Grok 4.1 Gemini 2.5 Pro Claude Opus 4Grok 4.1 ThinkingKimi K2 InstructHorizon AlphaGPT-5 Chat

xAI: EQ-Bench Emotional Intelligence Benchmark — Published by xAI on X, Nov 17, 2025. Source: x.com

67/ 100

ViralChart score

Wide but thin

More views than the median post but a lower engagement rate: many saw it, few acted. Common for big accounts.

#289 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #10 of 23 xAI posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

Wide but thin: views above the AI median, engagement below it, score rank #289 of 1,162.

This post drew 841K views, 6.4x the company median of 131K, ranking #8 of 23 xAI posts.

Its save rate of 0.012% sits at the 6th percentile, 0.15x the AI median of 0.076%.

On launch day, it ranked #3 of 5 xAI posts, with the top post at 5.3M views.

19xthe median benchmark bar chart post

Across 215 benchmark bar chart posts we hold, the median gets 44.4K views.

6.4xxAI's median post

841.4K views, where xAI's typical post gets 130.6K.

bottom 6%save rate

0.012% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

5posts from xAI that day

Part of a run of 5 posts on Nov 17, 2025. This one was #3 of 5 by views that day.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 13, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 23 from xAI.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #289 of 1,162

Views	841.4K	#110	top 9%
Likes	2.7K	#107	top 9%
Engagement rate	0.38%	#973	bottom 16%
Save rate	0.012%	#1,091	bottom 6%

Among 23 xAI posts

Score #10 of 23

Views	841.4K	#8	top 33%
Likes	2.7K	#5	top 20%
Engagement rate	0.38%	#15	bottom 37%
Save rate	0.012%	#16	bottom 33%

Growth

Our reads cover 22 hours

Views841.4K

Age at our read330 days

Views per day of life2.6Kviews divided by days since it was posted

Gained between our reads+2views over 22 hours, about 2 a day now

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

xAI's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · Nov 17, 2025

xAI's EQ-Bench chart draws 841K views but thin saves

A benchmark bar chart for EQ-Bench Emotional Intelligence Benchmark, posted November 17, 2025.

What happened

xAI posted a benchmark bar chart showing EQ-Bench Elo scores for 8 AI models. It was one of 5 posts that day, alongside a 5.3M-view LM Arena leaderboard.

The numbers

841K views, 2.7K likes, 0.38% engagement rate, 0.012% save rate, 6.4x company median, #110 of 1,162 in views, #1,091 of 1,162 in saves.

The lesson

Readers saved this 8-model comparison at 0.15x the AI median save rate: a wide reach did not convert to bookmarks.

What it means

For xAI, this post ranks #10 of 23 in score, below its own median views of 131K, showing reach without retention.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 13, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Updates: what xAI posted next

Data and API

8 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 97%

Group	Value	Read
Grok 4.1 Thinking	1586 Elo	printed
Grok 4.1	1585 Elo	printed
Kimi K2 Instruct	1561 Elo	printed
Horizon Alpha	1559 Elo	printed
Gemini 2.5 Pro	1460 Elo	printed
GPT-5 Chat	1364 Elo	printed
Claude Opus 4	1304 Elo	printed
Grok 4	1206 Elo	printed

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/842fc81517b4.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/842fc81517b4.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/842fc81517b4.skill.md

Make one like this Open the post JSON Chart data JSON Skill file API docs

Static files in this prototype. The post JSON holds the public numbers, ranks, score, quadrant, our reads and, when checked, our copy.

API · Max

Use this chart via API

On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id 842fc81517b4.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/842fc81517b4`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/842fc81517b4/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/842fc81517b4/render?view=1`	The draw-only view this page uses	Open
POST	`/mcp`	Tool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agents	Max

curlMax

curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/842fc81517b4/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

Claude CodeMax

claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.