Benchmark Almanac

WorldSense (omnimodal)

Seed2.0 Lite (0428) 67.3% leads since April 2026
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 68.5% leads since September 2026
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Models answer multiple choice questions about real-world videos that need both the visual and the audio track. Scored by accuracy.

Not the 2023 Meta FAIR text benchmark with the same name (id worldsense). Omni model launch posts mean this one.

Released
February 2025
Kind
Video understanding
Level
Everyday
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Multiple choice
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
Gemini 3.1 Pro #39 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
September 2026, dropped before it saturated
Last model added
September 2026
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026

In the authors’ words

We introduce WorldSense, the first benchmark to assess the multi-modal video understanding, that simultaneously encompasses visual, audio, and text inputs. In contrast to existing benchmarks, our WorldSense has several features: (i)collaboration of omni-modality, we design the evaluation tasks to feature a strong coupling of audio and video, requiring models to effectively utilize the synergistic perception of omni-modality; (ii)diversity of videos and tasks, WorldSense encompasses a diverse collection of 1,662 audio-visual synchronised videos, systematically categorized into 8 primary domains and 67 fine-grained subcategories to cover the broad scenarios, and 3,172 multi-choice QA pairs across 26 distinct tasks to enable the comprehensive evaluation; (iii)high-quality annotations, all the QA pairs are manually labeled by 80 expert annotators with multiple rounds of correction to ensure quality. Based on our WorldSense, we extensively evaluate various state-of-the-art models. The experimental results indicate that existing models face significant challenges in understanding real-world scenarios (65.1% best accuracy). By analyzing the limitations of current models, we aim to provide valuable insight to guide development of real-world understanding. We hope our WorldSense can provide a platform for evaluating the ability in constructing and understanding coherent contexts from omni-modality.

Abstract of WorldSense: Evaluating Real-world Omnimodal Understanding for Multimodal LLMs (arXiv:2502.04326, CC0)
29
Entries on its own leaderboard, 12 models we track
6
Launch posts list it, from 3 labs
5
System cards report it, from 3 labs

Seed2.0 Lite (0428) leads with 67.3% among models released by April 2026

Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders.

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash leads with 68.5%, claims included

Best score per model from every source, including labs’ own numbers and claims Epoch AI collected from reports and papers. Labs pick their own settings, so a claim can beat an independent run of the same model.

The newest model with a score here came out in April 2026, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Seed2.0 Lite (0428) modality A+V 67.3%
  2. 2 Gemini 3.1 Pro modality A+V 65.5%
  3. 3 Gemini 2.5 Pro [snapshot unspecified] modality A+V; Adaptive-Thinking 65.1%
  4. 4 Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus modality A+V 62.8%
  5. 5 Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash modality A+V 57.8%
  6. 6 video-SALMONN 2+ 72B modality A+V 56.5%
  7. 7 Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B modality A+V 55.4%
  8. 8 Qwen3-Omni modality A+V 54%
  9. 9 Gemini 2.5 Flash [snapshot unspecified] modality A+V; Thinking 52.3%
  10. 10 video-SALMONN 2+ 7B modality A+V 50.9%
  11. 11 video-SALMONN 2+ 3B modality A+V 48.8%
  12. 12 Gemini 1.5 Pro [snapshot unspecified] modality A+V 48%
  13. 13 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B modality A+V 45.4%
  14. 14 GPT-4o [snapshot unspecified] modality V 42.6%
  15. 15 LLaVA-Video 7B modality V 40.2%
  16. 16 InternVL2.5-8B modality V 39.1%
  17. 17 LLaVA-OneVision 7B modality V 37.7%
  18. 18 VITA-1.5 7B modality A+V 36.9%
  19. 19 Claude 3.5 Sonnet [snapshot unspecified] modality V 34.8%
  20. 20 mPLUG-Owl3-7B modality V 32.9%
  21. 21 Qwen2-Audio 7B modality A 32.8%
  22. 22 Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct modality V 32.4%
  23. 23 LLaMA3.2 7B modality V 27.1%
  24. 24 Unified-IO-2 XXL 7B modality A+V 25.9%
  25. 25 VideoLLAMA2-7B modality A+V 25.4%
  26. 26 Unified-IO-2 XL 3B modality A+V 24.7%
  27. 27 Unified-IO-2 L 1B modality A+V 23.3%
  28. 28 OneLLM 7B modality A+V 22.8%
  29. 29 Video-LLaVA-7B modality V 20.3%

Source: Official WorldSense (omnimodal) leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 Seed2.0 Lite (0428) 67.3% modality A+V Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
2 Gemini 3.1 Pro 65.5% modality A+V Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
3 Gemini 2.5 Pro [snapshot unspecified] 65.1% modality A+V; Adaptive-Thinking Official leaderboard
4 Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus 62.8% modality A+V Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
5 Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash 57.8% modality A+V Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
6 video-SALMONN 2+ 72B 56.5% modality A+V Official leaderboard
7 Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B 55.4% modality A+V Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
8 Qwen3-Omni 54% modality A+V Official leaderboard
9 Gemini 2.5 Flash [snapshot unspecified] 52.3% modality A+V; Thinking Official leaderboard
10 video-SALMONN 2+ 7B 50.9% modality A+V Official leaderboard
11 video-SALMONN 2+ 3B 48.8% modality A+V Official leaderboard
12 Gemini 1.5 Pro [snapshot unspecified] 48% modality A+V Official leaderboard
13 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 45.4% modality A+V Mar 2025 Official leaderboard
14 GPT-4o [snapshot unspecified] 42.6% modality V Official leaderboard
15 LLaVA-Video 7B 40.2% modality V Official leaderboard
16 InternVL2.5-8B 39.1% modality V Dec 2024 Official leaderboard
17 LLaVA-OneVision 7B 37.7% modality V Aug 2024 Official leaderboard
18 VITA-1.5 7B 36.9% modality A+V Official leaderboard
19 Claude 3.5 Sonnet [snapshot unspecified] 34.8% modality V Official leaderboard
20 mPLUG-Owl3-7B 32.9% modality V Aug 2024 Official leaderboard
21 Qwen2-Audio 7B 32.8% modality A Official leaderboard
22 Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct 32.4% modality V Aug 2024 Official leaderboard
23 LLaMA3.2 7B 27.1% modality V Official leaderboard
24 Unified-IO-2 XXL 7B 25.9% modality A+V Official leaderboard
25 VideoLLAMA2-7B 25.4% modality A+V Jun 2024 Official leaderboard
26 Unified-IO-2 XL 3B 24.7% modality A+V Official leaderboard
27 Unified-IO-2 L 1B 23.3% modality A+V Official leaderboard
28 OneLLM 7B 22.8% modality A+V Official leaderboard
29 Video-LLaVA-7B 20.3% modality V Nov 2023 Official leaderboard
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 68.5% Sep 2026 Lab model card
2 Seed2.0 Lite (0428) 67.3% modality A+V Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
3 Gemini 3.1 Pro 65.5% modality A+V Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
4 Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus 62.8% modality A+V Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
5 LongCat-Flash-Omni 60.9% Oct 2025 Lab model card
6 Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash 57.9% Mar 2026 Lab model card
7 Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B 55.4% modality A+V Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
8 Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B 54% Sep 2025 Lab model card
9 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 45.4% modality A+V Mar 2025 Official leaderboard
10 InternVL2.5-8B 39.1% modality V Dec 2024 Official leaderboard
11 LLaVA-OneVision 7B 37.7% modality V Aug 2024 Official leaderboard
12 mPLUG-Owl3-7B 32.9% modality V Aug 2024 Official leaderboard
13 Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct 32.4% modality V Aug 2024 Official leaderboard
14 VideoLLAMA2-7B 25.4% modality A+V Jun 2024 Official leaderboard
15 Video-LLaVA-7B 20.3% modality V Nov 2023 Official leaderboard

Labs report scores for 6 models in their cards. Switch the scores above to rank them together.

4 models have held number one on the official leaderboard since its release in February 2025 7 models have held number one with claims included since its release in February 2025

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release. We draw one row each for the benchmark’s own leaderboard and what labs claim in their cards.

Shanghai AI Lab Qwen Google DeepMind ByteDance Seed Meituan
Own leaderboard Not tested since Apr 2026
Lab claims Not tested since Sep 2026

Sources: Official WorldSense (omnimodal) leaderboard and labs’ model cards

Scores over time

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

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Gemini 3.1 Pro LongCat-Flash-Omni Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B Qwen2.5-Omni-7B InternVL2.5-8B VideoLLAMA2-7B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash LongCat-Flash-Omni

Sources: Official WorldSense (omnimodal) leaderboard and labs’ model cards

Labs headline it less often now, last in September 2026

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.

Qwen
Meituan
NVIDIA
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
Sep 18, 2026 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 68.5 WorldSense Audio-Visual Understanding
Apr 28, 2026 Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B 55.4 World Sense (Video + Audio Q/A)
Mar 30, 2026 Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash 57.9 WorldSense, Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash
Mar 30, 2026 Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus 62.8 WorldSense
Oct 31, 2025 LongCat-Flash-Omni 60.9 WorldSense
Sep 22, 2025 Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B 54 WorldSense

5 system cards report it, from 3 labs

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
Sep 22, 2026 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash technical report 68.5 WorldSense (Table 5) Capabilities
Apr 27, 2026 Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B technical report 55.4 WorldSense, reasoning on, 55.2 reasoning off (Table 9) Capabilities
Apr 17, 2026 Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus technical report 62.8 WorldSense (Table 7) Capabilities
Oct 31, 2025 LongCat-Flash-Omni technical report 60.9 WorldSense (Table 14) Capabilities
Sep 22, 2025 Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B technical report 54 WorldSense, Instruct (Table 11) Capabilities

3 lab claims next to the leaderboard

Each score a lab reported for its own model, beside the same model's best score on the leaderboard. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. 3 of them match, which usually means one side copied the other. Every benchmark.

Model Lab says Board says Gap
Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash 57.9% WorldSense, Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash 57.8% Leaderboard, modality A+V Same
Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus 62.8% WorldSense 62.8% Leaderboard, modality A+V Same
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B 55.4% World Sense (Video + Audio Q/A) 55.4% Leaderboard, modality A+V Same

More in Audio and video

All 233 in Audio and video
  • Video-MMMU In use 300 expert-level lecture videos with questions testing perception, comprehension and adaptation of knowledge. Accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 88.7%
  • LVBench In use Hours-long video understanding with multiple-choice questions on reasoning, grounding and summarization. Gemini 4 Argon 91.7%
  • MMVU In use 3,000 expert-annotated questions on videos across 27 disciplines. Multiple-choice and open-ended accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 82.4%
  • MLVU In use Multi-task long video understanding (minutes to hours) with multiple-choice and generation tasks. Accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 90.8%
  • FLEURS In use Models transcribe read speech in 102 languages built from FLoRes-101 sentences. Model cards usually report word error rate, so lower scores are better. Phi-4-multimodal 4.00%
  • VoiceBench In use Spoken instructions with speaker, environment and content variation. Voice assistant responses scored by GPT judge or rules. Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus 93.1%