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Oct 20, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

ExplorationBench: Benchmarking AI Exploration in Alien Worlds

ExplorationBench, a new benchmark from Fudan University and Tencent Hunyuan, evaluates AI systems' ability to discover rules in unfamiliar environments by placing them in two alien worlds—AlienCode and AlienLogic—where models must design experiments, infer rules from feedback, and solve novel tasks across four exploration rounds.