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Moonshot AI’s PerceptionBench tests how well multimodal AI models can actually “see,” separate from logical reasoning. No frontier model reaches 60 percent accuracy, and GPT-5.6 Sol leads by a narrow margin. Many supposed reasoning errors actually happen as early as the image-reading stage. The article New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual […]