Long-horizon agents operate across many dependent states and transitions, often spanning multiple tools, environments, and periods of external feedback. The difficulty comes from preserving coherent progress as earlier decisions constrain later actions. A single workflow may involve researching evidence, changing files or records, waiting for external responses, revising plans, validating intermediate results, and returning to earlier systems with new information….
Most agent benchmarks still evaluate a thin slice of the job. The agent receives a task, produces an answer, gets scored, and the episode ends. Enterprise workflows work differently. An underwriting agent may need to read policy documents, inspect customer records, call internal tools, ask a simulated user for missing information, update state, and follow approval rules. A correct final…
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 recently debuted as the second model overall on the current Senior SWE-bench leaderboard, behind Fable 5. It also achieves the highest score of any evaluated model on the benchmark’s Bug & Performance Investigation category, reinforcing the rapid progress frontier coding models continue to make on increasingly realistic software engineering tasks. Just as notable, Opus 5 reaches…
At our latest Snorkel AI Reading Group, Henry Ehrenberg presented Senior SWE-Bench, an open-source, Harbor-compatible benchmark for evaluating coding agents on realistic, senior-level software engineering work. Its 100 tasks, with 50 public and 50 kept private to mitigate contamination, are sourced from real pull requests across 12 production repositories and cover complex features, migrations, bugs, and performance issues. Senior SWE-Bench…
We’ve evaluated Grok 4.5 on Snorkel’s GDPval+ dataset, Snorkel’s expert-created dataset of professional workplace reasoning tasks from across the economy. To compare performance against other frontier models, we ran the evaluation alongside GPT 5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8. Overall, Grok 4.5 demonstrated the strongest overall performance. Dataset GDPval+ is part of the Snorkel Data Series (SDS), Snorkel’s portfolio of expert-curated…
At our latest Snorkel AI Reading Group, Yiyou Sun and David (Xinyang) Han (UC Berkeley, Center for Responsible and Decentralized Intelligence) presented Agents’ Last Exam (ALE) — a benchmark designed to evaluate AI agents on long-horizon, economically valuable, real-world tasks with verifiable outcomes. ALE is a collaboration between Berkeley RDI, Snorkel AI, and 300+ expert contributors across 55 professional subfields. ALE asks a deceptively simple question: can…
Most agent benchmarks evaluate each task as an independent episode. The agent receives a task, produces an answer, gets scored, and moves on. The next task starts as if the previous one never happened. That setup misses a core requirement for deployed agents. A coding agent, research assistant, data analyst, or workplace assistant should improve as it works across repeated…
For our third Benchtalks, the series dedicated to the researchers building the measurement toolkits that frontier labs hill-climb on, Snorkel AI co-founder Vincent Sunn Chen sat down with Parth Asawa, a PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Matei Zaharia and Joey Gonzalez. Parth leads research on continual learning and is the creator of Continual Learning Bench, developed in collaboration…
Alex Ratner, co-founder and CEO of Snorkel AI, spoke at @Scale: Systems & Reliability about one of the most underappreciated problems in AI deployment: our ability to measure agents has been outpaced — arguably for the first time in the history of the field — by our ability to build them. The talk digs into what it actually takes to close that…
