Benchmark Almanac

CBRN open-ended questions

Only in system cards

Experts review model answers to single and multi-turn CBRN threat scenario questions for accuracy, novelty and actionable uplift.

In-house Google DeepMind evaluation. Results are usually qualitative.

Made by Google DeepMind Released Mar 2025 Hazardous knowledge Tasks kept private Last in a system card Nov 2025 Last model added Nov 2025
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Graded by people Human experts grade or compare the outputs.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
3
System cards report it, from 1 lab

No scores here yet

No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for CBRN open-ended questions yet.

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

3 system cards report it, from 1 lab

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
18 Nov 2025 Gemini 3 Pro system card Open-Ended Questions: high scientific accuracy, low novelty, insufficient detail for low-medium resourced actors, no score (CBRN, p.7) Bio and chem risk
7 Jul 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro technical report CBRN open-ended questions (bio, radiological, nuclear), qualitative expert assessment, no score: detailed and accurate but not consistently enabling key bottleneck steps (Section 5.7) Bio and chem risk
28 Apr 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro model card CBRN open-ended questions (bio, radiological, nuclear), qualitative expert assessment, no score (CBRN section) Bio and chem risk

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