Klara Kaleb

Today, we’re expanding @SnorkelAI’s Open Benchmarks Grants by 10x to a $30M commitment: - Funding a more diverse, robust, and continuously-updated ecosystem of open benchmarks - Launching the Open Benchmarks Red Team to continually test and strengthen them - Introducing the Snorkel Research Fellowship to support independent contributors developing new evaluation methods Since our launch earlier this year, we’ve been humbled to partner with the teams behind Terminal-Bench, TB-Science, ARC-AGI-3, OSWorld 2.0, Agents’ Last Exam, Continual Learning Bench, Senior SWE-Bench, SlopCodeBench, and more. Alongside these teams, we’ve helped design evaluation methodologies, develop task construction pipelines, and scale quality control. OBG-funded benchmarks have appeared on the latest model cards from every major frontier lab; have helped to index and measure frontier progress and alignment; and have contributed to guiding the frontier of AI development. Benchmarks have always been guideposts for—and drivers of— AI progress: setting a metric and then “hillclimbing” against it is the core of how AI works! But when benchmarks fall behind frontier capabilities, our ability to evaluate and align these systems does as well. They become too simple, static, or correlated, and the risk of “benchmaxxing” increases. We need more diverse, robust, and continuously-updated benchmarks, developed by a broader ecosystem of researchers and domain leaders. We’re incredibly excited to accelerate frontier evaluation with Open Benchmarks Grants— raising the ambition and investment in robust, open, and independent measurement. Read our full announcement and apply here: benchmarks.snorkel.ai/fronti…