Apodex launches TRACES, a benchmark measuring whether AI can rigorously explore the unknown
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-04
Apodex (founded by Tianqiao Chen) unveiled TRACES, a "Discoverative AI" benchmark that measures how far models can push the frontier of the unknown rather than answer known questions.
Six capabilities spell its name:
- Tools: selecting, calling and interpreting external tools
- Repair: locating and correcting its own errors from feedback
- Alternatives: weighing competing hypotheses as evidence accumulates
- Coherence: holding state and logic across long chains of work
- Evidence: grounding every conclusion in observation, data or citation
- Scope: stating where conclusions hold and where they don't
Current coverage spans AAV capsid, drug repurposing, clinical trials and LLM engineering, with a live benchmark tracking 1,182 trajectories across 17 environments and 11 solvers.
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