AI benchmarks

General

• Models Table (lifearchitect.ai)
• Artificial Analysis
• Epoch AI
  • Notable AI models

Methods

• AidanBench: Evaluating Novel Idea Generation on Open-Ended Questions (code)
  • Leaderboard
  • Suggestion to use Borda count
• ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning. Assess reasoning using puzzles of tunable complexity.

Task Length

• 2020-09: Ajeya Cotra: Draft report on AI timelines
• 2025-03: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks

Assess Specific Attributes

Various

• LMSYS: Human preference ranking leaderboard
• Tracking AI: "IQ" leaderboard
• LiveBench: A Challenging, Contamination-Free LLM Benchmark
• LLM Thematic Generalization Benchmark

Hallucination

• Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard
• LLM Confabulation (Hallucination) Leaderboard for RAG

Software/Coding

• 2025-02: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering? (code)

Visual

• 2025-03: Can Large Vision Language Models Read Maps Like a Human? MapBench

Creativity

• 2024-10: AI as Humanity's Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text
• 2024-11: AidanBench: Evaluating Novel Idea Generation on Open-Ended Questions (code)
• 2024-12: LiveIdeaBench: Evaluating LLMs' Scientific Creativity and Idea Generation with Minimal Context
• LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark

Reasoning

• ENIGMAEVAL: "reasoning" leaderboard (paper)

Assistant/Agentic

• GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants
• Galileo AI Agent Leaderboard
• Smolagents LLM Leaderboard: LLMs powering agents

Science

See: Science Benchmarks