FigQA
FigQA is a multiple-choice benchmark on interpreting scientific figures from biology papers. It evaluates dual-use biological knowledge and multimodal reasoning relevant to bioweapons development.
Claude Mythos Preview from Anthropic currently leads the FigQA leaderboard with a score of 0.890 across 3 evaluated AI models.
What FigQA measures
FigQA is a multimodal benchmark that evaluates large language models on safety, healthcare, and vision tasks. LLM Stats tracks 3 models on this benchmark, with a maximum possible score of 1. Current average across reported models is 0.7, with the leader reaching 0.9.
Compare leaders on the best AI for safety, best AI for healthcare and best AI for vision leaderboards.
Publication
- Paper
- LAB-Bench: Measuring Capabilities of Language Models for Biology Research
- Authors
- Jon M. Laurent, Joseph D. Janizek, Michael Ruzo, Michaela M. Hinks, and 5 others
- Published
- arXiv
- 2407.10362
Abstract
There is widespread optimism that frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) and LLM-augmented systems have the potential to rapidly accelerate scientific discovery across disciplines. Today, many benchmarks exist to measure LLM knowledge and reasoning on textbook-style science questions, but few if any benchmarks are designed to evaluate language model performance on practical tasks required for scientific research, such as literature search, protocol planning, and data analysis. As a step toward building such benchmarks, we introduce the Language Agent Biology Benchmark (LAB-Bench), a broad dataset of over 2,400 multiple choice questions for evaluating AI systems on a range of practical biology research capabilities, including recall and reasoning over literature, interpretation of figures, access and navigation of databases, and comprehension and manipulation of DNA and protein sequences. Importantly, in contrast to previous scientific benchmarks, we expect that an AI system that can achieve consistently high scores on the more difficult LAB-Bench tasks would serve as a useful assistant for researchers in areas such as literature search and molecular cloning. As an initial assessment of the emergent scientific task capabilities of frontier language models, we measure performance of several against our benchmark and report results compared to human expert biology researchers. We will continue to update and expand LAB-Bench over time, and expect it to serve as a useful tool in the development of automated research systems going forward. A public subset of LAB-Bench is available for use at the following URL: https://huggingface.co/datasets/futurehouse/lab-bench
Claude Mythos Preview leads with 89.0%, followed by Claude Opus 4.6 at 78.3% and 
Grok-4.1 Thinking at 34.0%.
Progress Over Time
Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on FigQA
FigQA Leaderboard
| Context | Cost | License | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic | — | — | — | ||
| 2 | Anthropic | — | 1.0M | $5.00 / $25.00 | ||
| 3 | — | — | — |
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