Indices have evolved from simple market barometers to powerful benchmarks that materially shape investor behavior. Market-cap-weighted indices have become increasingly concentrated, with a small group ...

To fix the way we test and measure models, AI is learning tricks from social science. It’s not easy being one of Silicon Valley’s favorite benchmarks. SWE-Bench (pronounced “swee bench”) launched in ...

Every time a new AI model launches, the cacophony of AI benchmarking sites whirs into life and bombards us with colorful charts, imperceptible and marginal improvements to uncontextualized numbers ...

One-off tests don’t measure AI’s true impact. We’re better off shifting to more human-centered, context-specific methods. For decades, artificial intelligence has been evaluated through the question ...

Researchers are racing to develop more challenging, interpretable, and fair assessments of AI models that reflect real-world use cases. The stakes are high. Benchmarks are often reduced to leaderboard ...

Evaluating private equity performance is notoriously difficult due to lack of transparency. Asking these 3 questions makes it ...

Artificial intelligence has traditionally advanced through automatic accuracy tests in tasks meant to approximate human knowledge. Carefully crafted benchmark tests such as The General Language ...

AI agents are becoming a promising new research direction with potential applications in the real world. These agents use foundation models such as large language models (LLMs) and vision language ...

Five benchmarks can help you determine how well you're progressing toward financial goals. Here's what you need to measure to evaluate success.