Snorkel expands Open Benchmarks Grants 10x to $30M, launches Red Team and fellowship
ajratner · x · 2026-10-14
Snorkel AI founder Vincent Chen announced a 10x expansion of Open Benchmarks Grants to a $30M commitment:
- Funding a more diverse, robust, continuously-updated ecosystem of open benchmarks
- Launching the Open Benchmarks Red Team to continually test and strengthen them
- Introducing the Snorkel Research Fellowship for independent contributors building new evaluation methods
Since launching earlier this year, Snorkel has partnered with teams behind Terminal-Bench, TB-Science, ARC-AGI-3, OSWorld 2.0, Agents' Last Exam, Continual Learning Bench, Senior SWE-Bench, and SlopCodeBench, helping design evaluation methodologies and task construction pipelines.
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