Benchmark Almanac

ProactiveVideoQA

Models answer spoken questions when a streamed video first reveals the answer.

The launch post reports turn-weighted PAUC at omega 0.5. A no-response baseline scores 25.0.

Released
May 2026
Kind
Video understanding
Level
Everyday
Scored
Graded by a model
Answers
Short answer
Tasks
Kept private
Last in a launch post
May 2026, dropped before it saturated
Last model added
May 2026
1
Model scored in lab cards
1
Launch post lists it, from 1 lab

TML-Interaction-Small leads with 33.5

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 TML-Interaction-Small 33.5

Source: Labs’ model cards

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 TML-Interaction-Small 33.5 May 2026 Lab model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
33.5 2026 33.5 2026

Source: Labs’ model cards

Labs headline it less often now, last in May 2026

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Thinking Machines
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
May 11, 2026 TML-Interaction-Small 33.5 ProactiveVideoQA PAUC at omega 0.5, internal

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  • MMVU In use 3,000 expert-annotated questions on videos across 27 disciplines. Multiple-choice and open-ended accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 82.4%
  • MLVU In use Multi-task long video understanding (minutes to hours) with multiple-choice and generation tasks. Accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 90.8%
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