University of Cambridge researchers AI Releases: ZeroBench

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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one University of Cambridge researchers release so far: ZeroBench on Feb 20, 2025. ZeroBench: the 'impossible' benchmark where all top VLMs score zero. The entry below has primary-source links and the episode where we covered it live.

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ZeroBench

ZeroBench: the 'impossible' benchmark where all top VLMs score zero

A new benchmark called ZeroBench launched, claiming to be the impossible benchmark for vision-language models: all current top-of-the-line VLMs score zero on it. Tasks include visually demanding puzzles like reading a question written in the shape of a star hidden among scattered letters, highlighting how far VLMs still are from true visual understanding.