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open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation artifacts that shape how frontier AI systems are built
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Technical advisors and distinguished affiliates

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Stephen Bach

Brown University
Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
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Jason Fries

Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Medicine
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Jared Dunnmon

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Stealth Startup
Prev. Dir. of AI at DIU
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Fred Sala

Chief Scientist
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Snorkel AI
Assistant Professor @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Chris Ré

Co-Founder
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Snorkel AI
Professor @ Stanford University
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Ludwig Schmidt

Stanford University · LAION
Stanford researcher and LAION collaborator
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Karthik Narasimhan

Princeton University
Professor of Computer Science
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Yu Su

Ohio State University
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
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Lewis Tunstall

Hugging Face
Machine Learning Engineer
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MedPAIR: Measuring Whether Physicians and AI Agree on What Matters in Medical QA
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MedPAIR: Measuring Whether Physicians and AI Agree on What Matters in Medical QA

Yuexing Hao presents MedPAIR, a dataset comparing which sentences physicians and LLMs find relevant in clinical questions. Humans and LLMs agree on only 50 to 60% of relevance labels.

Oct 02, 2026 •
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Can Agents Design Libraries for Agents?
Agents increasingly build on code written by other agents, and they reimplement rather than reuse, growing the codebases later agents must work in. To measure how well agents design libraries for other agents, we introduce LibraryDesignBench, a two-phase benchmark in which an agent implements a full-featured library from a specification that defines required capabilities and potential use cases without prescribing the design. We evaluate the library through the correctness and simplicity of programs written by three user agents from different model families. The benchmark spans 242 expert-validated programming problems across 15 library-design tasks in four languages. On eleven of the...
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Can Agents Design Libraries for Agents?

Agents increasingly build on code written by other agents, and they reimplement rather than reuse, growing the codebases later agents must work in. To measure how well agents design libraries for other agents, we introduce LibraryDesignBench, a two-phase benchmark in which an agent implements a full-featured library from a specification that defines required capabilities and potential use cases without prescribing…

Sep 30, 2026 •

Gabriel Orlanski, Alex L. Zhang, Avi Trost, Vincent Sunn Chen, Frederic Sala, Aws Albarghouthi, Ludwig Schmidt

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RL environments for LLM agents: Design, rewards, and validation
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RL environments for LLM agents: Design, rewards, and validation

TLDR: An agent, by definition, can take actions and is more than just a language model. The model is only one part of the system, and is only one element that you are training. The environment determines what the agent can observe, what it can change, which actions are available, and what behavior receives a reward. For a coding agent,…

Sep 28, 2026 •
Learn more about RL environments for LLM agents: Design, rewards, and validation
Opus 5.5 vs Opus 5 vs Fable 5.1: Coding Benchmark Results
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Opus 5.5 vs Opus 5 vs Fable 5.1: Coding Benchmark Results

We’ve now run three generations of frontier models through the same expert-created terminal-bench style task set: Fable 5.1 in September, Opus 5 in July, and, now Opus 5.5. For this analysis, the task set contained 200 trajectories, of 24 tasks, with every failure traced to a judge-confirmed root cause. A generational climb On the task set, pass@1 is 61.5% for…

Sep 23, 2026 •
Learn more about Opus 5.5 vs Opus 5 vs Fable 5.1: Coding Benchmark Results
Data 2.0 and the research era of AI data
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Data 2.0 and the research era of AI data

Today, I’m excited to announce Snorkel’s $350M Series E financing at a $3.5B valuation, led by Insight and S32, with participation from Third Point, March, Blumberg, Allegis, Standard VC, Frontline, and existing investors Addition, Lightspeed, Greylock, GV, P7, Wells Fargo, Walden Catalyst Ventures, and Factory.

Sep 22, 2026 •
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Grok 4.7 on Senior SWE-Bench: Strong pass@3, Cheaper Cost per Trial
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Grok 4.7 on Senior SWE-Bench: Strong pass@3, Cheaper Cost per Trial

Grok 4.7 was evaluated on Senior SWE-Bench, our benchmark for measuring whether coding agents work like senior engineers. It reaches a tasteful pass@3 of 40.0%, up from 38.9% for Grok 4.6, ranking sixth overall at $0.24 per trial, which is a fraction of the cost compared to Opus 4.8. Benchmark Senior SWE-Bench evaluates agents as compared to a senior engineer….

Sep 22, 2026 •
Learn more about Grok 4.7 on Senior SWE-Bench: Strong pass@3, Cheaper Cost per Trial
From Foundational Competency to Expert Performance: A Curriculum Approach to Model Development
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From Foundational Competency to Expert Performance: A Curriculum Approach to Model Development

A student does not go from 1st to 12th grade in a single step. Each grade builds on a specific set of skills, and each one assumes the previous skills have already been mastered. Nobody learns calculus without algebra. When a student skips ahead anyway, what they end up with is memorization rather than understanding. The gaps show up later, usually in ways that are harder to trace back and fix.

Sep 15, 2026 •
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OSWorld 2.0: Why Long-Horizon Computer-Use Agents Still Fail Four Out of Five Tasks
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OSWorld 2.0: Why Long-Horizon Computer-Use Agents Still Fail Four Out of Five Tasks

Mengqi Yuan (XLANG Lab, University of Hong Kong) presents OSWorld 2.0, a benchmark of 108 long-horizon, real-world computer-use workflows where even frontier AI agents complete only 20.6% of tasks outright after 300+ steps each.

Sep 03, 2026 •
Learn more about OSWorld 2.0: Why Long-Horizon Computer-Use Agents Still Fail Four Out of Five Tasks
Fable 5.1 on Frontier Coding Tasks: Efficient Successes, Distinct Failure Modes
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Fable 5.1 on Frontier Coding Tasks: Efficient Successes, Distinct Failure Modes

We evaluated Fable 5.1 on a series of frontier coding tasks from our proprietary Terminal-Bench+ dataset and compared the results against Opus 5. Fable remained competitive across most categories and was materially more efficient on successful runs, while its gap was concentrated in a small set of terminal-heavy and build/dependency tasks. Because category sizes are small and uneven, we treat…

Sep 01, 2026 •
Learn more about Fable 5.1 on Frontier Coding Tasks: Efficient Successes, Distinct Failure Modes
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