Benchmark Almanac

ResearchTasteBench

Only in system cards

Agents are scored on judgment about which research directions are worth pursuing. Part of Meta's recursive-improvement suite.

In-house Meta evaluation. Graded programmatically. The tasks are not public.

Made by
Meta
Kind
AI research tasks
Level
Research frontier
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
Kept private
Strongest model tested
Muse Spark 1.3 #26 on the capability index
Last in a system card
October 2026
Last model added
October 2026
1
Model scored in lab cards
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

Muse Spark 1.3 leads with 64.7%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Muse Spark 1.3 64.7%

Source: Labs’ model cards

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Muse Spark 1.3 64.7% Oct 2026 Lab model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2027 Near the ceiling (85%) Muse Spark 1.3 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2027 Near the ceiling (85%) Muse Spark 1.3

Source: Labs’ model cards

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
Oct 23, 2026 Muse Spark 1.3 system card 64.7 ResearchTasteBench, Muse Spark 1.3 (Helpful) (Table 1, Table 5) AI R&D risk

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