Stanford HAI Publishes 2025 Artificial Intelligence Index Report
Direct to Full Text Report 456 pages; PDF.
From Stanford HAI (Top 10 Takeaways From the Report):
1. AI performance on demanding benchmarks continues to improve. In 2023, researchers introduced new benchmarks—MMMU, GPQA, and SWE-bench—to test the limits of advanced AI systems. Just a year later, performance sharply increased: scores rose by 18.8, 48.9, and 67.3 percentage points on MMMU, GPQA, and SWE-bench, respectively. Beyond benchmarks, AI systems made major strides in genera
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