CADBench: 10 models tested on 105 Fusion 360 tasks, best pass rate only 24.6%
DynamicWebPaige · x · 2026-08-22
Seldon released CADBench, evaluating 10 models on 105 realistic CAD tasks in Fusion 360. Fable 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash tie for #1 with only a 24.6% pass rate.
The notable signal: the co-leader is Gemini 3.7 Flash, not a frontier-tier model — the gap between "best" and "cheapest-good-enough" for computer-use CAD is already near zero, changing who gets to build in Fusion 360. A benchmark worth watching for how close agents are to building physical things.
Related event: CADBench Shows Gemini 3.7 Flash Ties for Top Spot in CAD Tasks(2 posts)→
More from Research
- EMNLP 2026 Paper: RAG over Thinking Traces Boosts Reasoning by 43% — matei_zaharia · 2026-08-22
- Woolly post-trains Qwen3-8B for 2–3× faster math & code decoding — bosmeny · 2026-08-22
- GTSAM 4.3 Adds CUDA Backend for Nonlinear Optimization — fdellaert · 2026-08-22
- Nature Publishes HydroGym RL Platform for Fluid Dynamics Control — eigensteve · 2026-08-22
- Google Research Releases Biomarker Discovery Framework for Wearable Sensor Data — yang_yuzhe · 2026-08-22
- CVPR 2026 oral: fine-grained negative queries make MLLMs hallucinate, DPO fix gains 24.2% — zeynepakata · 2026-08-22