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Scale Labs advances AI through research. Our research focuses on agents, post-training, reasoning, safety, evaluation, and alignment, and the science of data.

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Research papers and publications covering agents, post-training, reasoning, safety, evaluation, and alignment, and the science of data.

Date Title
10/9/2026
DistressBench: Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Crisis Support in Large Language ModelsSafety & Oversight
10/7/2026
Humanity's Sixth Sense: Benchmarking Intuitive Visual Reasoning in Multimodal ModelsMultimodal
9/17/2026
SteerDuplex: Steerable Duplex Speech Dialogue ModelsMultimodal
9/4/2026
READY or Not: Reliable Enterprise Agent DeploymentAgents, Enterprise
8/27/2026
Spine-Branch Coordination for Multi-agent Computer UseAgents
8/20/2026
CliniCARE-Bench: Clinical Calibrated Audit of Medical Reasoning in EHREvaluation and Alignment
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Safety & OversightOct 9, 2026

DistressBench: A clinician-authored benchmark for how AI models handle users in distress

People increasingly turn to chatbots for emotional support, and some of those conversations involve suicide or self-harm. DistressBench measures whether models give the support those conversations need, using rubrics written by licensed clinicians: 718 clinician-authored conversations across 23 suicide and self-harm subcategories.

Oct 7, 2026

Introducing Humanity's Sixth Sense: Measuring Intuitive Visual Reasoning

Today we're introducing Humanity's Sixth Sense (HSS), in partnership with Elorian, a benchmark for intuitive visual reasoning with 522 open-ended tasks across 288 images and 234 video clips (17.6 hours of video in total).

Oct 5, 2026

Introducing AgentEnv: An Open-Source Framework for Building RL Environments

An agent is only as good as the world it practices in, and building worlds that are realistic, accurate, and scalable all at once is the hard part of scaling RL. Every RL environment Scale builds runs on AgentEnv. Today we're open-sourcing it.

Evaluation and AlignmentSep 22, 2026

SWE-Bench Pro V2: A Cleaner, Harder-to-Game Leaderboard

When SWE Bench Pro originally launched a little over a year ago, it was a significant entry into the open source benchmark space and changed how the field measured coding agents. However, we know that benchmarks built on open source GitHub issues have real limitations. We see that as a reason to keep iterating on SWE Bench Pro rather than retire it.

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