Benchmark Almanac

StreamBench (StreamChat)

Dropped

Video models answer questions on streaming videos across media types, including multi-turn interaction and reasoning tasks.

Published at ICLR 2025 with the StreamChat framework. It is a different test from StreamBench for language agents (arXiv 2406.08747).

Released
January 2025
Kind
Video understanding
Level
Everyday
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Short answer
Last in a launch post
May 2025, dropped before it saturated
Last model added
May 2025
1
Model scored in lab cards
1
Launch post lists it, from 1 lab
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

Seed1.5-VL leads with 72.8%

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 Seed1.5-VL 72.8%

Source: Labs’ model cards

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Seed1.5-VL 72.8% May 2025 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% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed1.5-VL 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed1.5-VL

Source: Labs’ model cards

No launch post has listed it since May 2025

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

ByteDance Seed
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
May 12, 2025 Seed1.5-VL 72.8 StreamBench

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
May 11, 2025 Seed1.5-VL technical report 72.8 StreamBench, thinking (Table 7). Non-thinking 71.2 Capabilities

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