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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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Why Frontier Agents Fail Real Engineering Work: Two Terminal-Bench 3.0 Task Deep Dives
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Why Frontier Agents Fail Real Engineering Work: Two Terminal-Bench 3.0 Task Deep Dives

Terminal-Bench 3.0 (formerly Frontier-Bench) recently launched, built to track what AI agents can and can’t do across real computer work. Terminal-Bench 2.1 has been saturating, with top agents reaching 84%; on Terminal-Bench 3.0, the best model, Claude Opus 5, achieves just 43.5%. Terminal-Bench 3.0 raises the bar with 74 authentic, verifiable tasks across 7 domains, designed to expose meaningful gaps…

Aug 20, 2026
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Claude Opus 5: Performance and Error Analysis on Frontier Coding Tasks
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Claude Opus 5: Performance and Error Analysis on Frontier Coding Tasks

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 recently debuted as the second model overall on the current Senior SWE-bench leaderboard, behind Fable 5. It also achieves the highest score of any evaluated model on the benchmark’s Bug & Performance Investigation category, reinforcing the rapid progress frontier coding models continue to make on increasingly realistic software engineering tasks. Just as notable, Opus 5 reaches…

Jul 27, 2026
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Inside Frontier-Bench: two Snorkel-built tasks that frontier agents still can’t crack
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Inside Frontier-Bench: two Snorkel-built tasks that frontier agents still can’t crack

Frontier-Bench launched this week – the successor to Terminal-Bench, built to track what AI agents can and can’t do across real computer work. Terminal-Bench 2.1 has been saturating, with top agents clearing 75-84%; on Frontier-Bench’s launch set of 74 tasks across 7 domains, the best mode Opus 5 achieving 43.3%. Snorkel AI contributed as a task author and data partner,…

Jul 23, 2026
Learn more about Inside Frontier-Bench: two Snorkel-built tasks that frontier agents still can’t crack
Enterprise environments and training AI agents for real-world workflows
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Enterprise environments and training AI agents for real-world workflows

Most agent benchmarks still evaluate a thin slice of the job. The agent receives a task, produces an answer, gets scored, and the episode ends. Enterprise workflows work differently. An underwriting agent may need to read policy documents, inspect customer records, call internal tools, ask a simulated user for missing information, update state, and follow approval rules. A correct final…

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Milestone-Based Evaluation and Training for Long-Horizon AI Agents
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Milestone-Based Evaluation and Training for Long-Horizon AI Agents

Long-horizon agents operate across many dependent states and transitions, often spanning multiple tools, environments, and periods of external feedback. The difficulty comes from preserving coherent progress as earlier decisions constrain later actions. A single workflow may involve researching evidence, changing files or records, waiting for external responses, revising plans, validating intermediate results, and returning to earlier systems with new information….

Jul 09, 2026
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Learning from Less: Measuring the Effectiveness of RLVR in Low Data and Compute Regimes
Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) typically relies on large quantities of high-quality annotated data, or questions with well-defined ground truth answers in the case of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). While previous work has explored the benefits to model reasoning capabilities by scaling both data and compute used for RLVR, these results lack applicability in many real-world settings where annotated data and accessible compute may be scarce. In this work, we present a comprehensive empirical study of open-source Small Language Model (SLM) performance after RLVR in low data regimes. Across three novel datasets covering number counting problems, graph reasoning,...
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Learning from Less: Measuring the Effectiveness of RLVR in Low Data and Compute Regimes

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) typically relies on large quantities of high-quality annotated data, or questions with well-defined ground truth answers in the case of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). While previous work has explored the benefits to model reasoning capabilities by scaling both data and compute used for RLVR, these results lack applicability in many real-world settings where…

Jul 02, 2026

Justin Bauer, Thomas Walshe, Derek Pham, Harit Vishwakarma, Armin Parchami, Frederic Sala, Paroma Varma

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Agents’ Last Exam: AI Benchmarking for Real Work
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Agents’ Last Exam: AI Benchmarking for Real Work

At our latest Snorkel AI Reading Group, Yiyou Sun and David (Xinyang) Han (UC Berkeley, Center for Responsible and Decentralized Intelligence) presented Agents’ Last Exam (ALE) — a benchmark designed to evaluate AI agents on long-horizon, economically valuable, real-world tasks with verifiable outcomes. ALE is a collaboration between Berkeley RDI, Snorkel AI, and 300+ expert contributors across 55 professional subfields. ALE asks a deceptively simple question: can…

Jun 29, 2026
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Agentic AI Evaluation: Closing the Gap with Better Benchmarks and Data
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Agentic AI Evaluation: Closing the Gap with Better Benchmarks and Data

Alex Ratner, co-founder and CEO of Snorkel AI, spoke at @Scale: Systems & Reliability about one of the most underappreciated problems in AI deployment: our ability to measure agents has been outpaced — arguably for the first time in the history of the field — by our ability to build them. The talk digs into what it actually takes to…

Jun 22, 2026
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Benchtalks #3: We taught AI everything except how to learn
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Benchtalks #3: We taught AI everything except how to learn

For our third Benchtalks, the series dedicated to the researchers building the measurement toolkits that frontier labs hill-climb on, Snorkel AI co-founder Vincent Sunn Chen sat down with Parth Asawa, a PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Matei Zaharia and Joey Gonzalez. Parth leads research on continual learning and is the creator of Continual Learning Bench, developed in collaboration…

Jun 20, 2026
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