Current AI benchmarks are struggling to keep pace with modern models. As helpful as they are to measure model performance on specific tasks, it can be hard to know if models trained on internet data are actually solving problems or just remembering answers they’ve already seen. As models reach closer to 100% on certain benchmarks, they also become less effective at revealing meaningful performance differences. We continue to invest in new and more challenging benchmarks, but on the path to general intelligence, we need to continue to look for new ways to evaluate. The more recent shift towards dynamic, human-judged testing solves these issues of memorization and saturation, but in turn, creates new difficulties stemming from the inherent subjectivity of human preferences.

While we continue to evolve and pursue current AI benchmarks, we’re also consistently looking to test new approaches to evaluating models. That’s why today, we’re introducing the Kaggle Game Arena: a new, public AI benchmarking platform where AI models compete head-to-head in strategic games, providing a verifiable, and dynamic measure of their capabilities.