DiG-bench: Frontier AI Models Still Stumped by Simple Text-Based Discovery Games
jcrwhittington · x · 2026-08-12
A research team introduced DiG-bench, a new benchmark of 70 text-based interactive games designed to evaluate LLMs' scientific discovery and rule-exploration capabilities.
Results show that while frontier models have improved significantly in recent months, they are still stumped by surprisingly simple text-based discovery problems. A substantial bottleneck remains in native text-domain exploration.
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