RL environments and AI benchmarks, cataloged daily.
Who builds RL environments, who funds them and how models score, rebuilt every morning from public sources. Every placement links to the line on the company's own site that puts it there.
Today in RL
October 31, 2026 brought a focused set of changes: Contra Labs debuted with a new human creativity benchmark, Ulam expanded its scope from pure mathematics into science, and five multimodal leaderboards across Design Arena and Artificial Analysis added new evaluation entries.
Contra Labs
Contra Labs Enters the Field with Human Creativity Benchmark
Contra Labs — backed by talent from Midjourney, Stanford, and Mercor — launched today with the Human Creativity Benchmark, targeting AI evaluation of creative output. The benchmark is hosted at contralabs.com/research/human-creativity-benchmark and signals growing industry interest in quantifying generative and creative AI capabilities alongside traditional reasoning and coding evaluations.
Ulam
Ulam Broadens from Math to Math + Science
Ulam, the Oxford-affiliated lab focused on mathematical reasoning, has expanded its domain coverage to include Science alongside Math. The domain expansion suggests Ulam is extending its RL-for-reasoning research beyond pure mathematics into broader scientific problem-solving.
Multimodal Leaderboards Continue Steady Growth
Five community-judged leaderboards added new evaluation entries today: Design Arena's Agentic Game Development (now 28 entries), UI Components (182), and Video Generation (51) each gained a entry, while Artificial Analysis's Image-to-Video Arena jumped from 25 to 29 entries and its Text-to-Video Arena reached 31. The Speech Arena Provider Voices leaderboard crossed 100 entries. The consistent daily additions across these boards reflect sustained community engagement with human-preference evaluation of multimodal AI.
The catalog
The top of each list. Every list has a full table, sortable and filterable.
Models
By overall score
- 1Gemini 4 Carbon88.38
- 2Claude Opus 5.586.29
- 3GPT-6 Astra86.07
- 4GPT-6.1 Sol85.27
- 5Gemini 4 Argon82.28
RL environment companies
By tier, X reputation, benchmarks built
Benchmarks
S tier: the ones frontier labs report
Infrastructure companies
By tier, X reputation, benchmarks built
Browse by domain
All 92 domains and labelsOn the map. Our domains: every company and benchmark sits in one, placed by a quote from its own site or paper.
- Coding
- Enterprise work
- Health and bio
- Computer use
- Math
- Science
- Finance
- Legal
- Media
- Security
- Games
- Robotics
- Multi-domain
- Chip design
Directory labels. Tags other catalogs put on entries. Not domains on the map.
- Agentic
- Multimodal
- Reasoning
- Long-Horizon
- Knowledge
- Safety
- Decision Models
- Multilingual
- Long Context
- Video
The other 68 pages
More pages for domains on the map
- Business Enterprise work
- Biomedicine Health and bio
- Private Codebases Coding
- Software Engineering Coding
- Multi-Domain Multi-domain
- Biology Health and bio
- Robotics Robotics
- Gui Computer use
- Creative Media
- Materials Science
- Creative Media Media
- Security Security
- Chemistry Science
- Spreadsheets Enterprise work
- Browser Computer use
- Text TO Sql Coding
- Games Games
- Image Generation Media
- Video Generation Media
More directory labels
- Retrieval
- Instruction Following
- Vision
- Multimodal Understanding
- Alignment
- Behavioral
- Tool Use
- Generalization
- Speech
- Spatial Reasoning
- Data
- Factuality
- Language
- Document Understanding
- Translation
- Education
- Domain
- Geospatial
- Search
- General Knowledge
- Machine Learning
- ML
- Classification
- Inference
- Question Answering
- Korean
- Aerospace
- Efficiency
- Language-understanding
- Summarization
- Tabular
- Uncategorized
- Writing
- Human-preference
- Mobile
- Structured Output
- Document-ai
- Ocr
- Climate
- Energy
- Meta
- Truthfulness
- Weather
- Self Improvement
- Autonomy
- Law
- Openness
- Professional
- Rlhf
The map
Every company we track, placed in the domain it leads with. Click one for the line on its own website that puts it there.
Every company we track, whatever it sells, placed in the domain it leads with. Companies that cover many domains with none leading sit in the middle.
Domains
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How to read it
A company, in the domain its own site leads with. The logo is its own; the glow is what it mainly sells.
Also covers: a ring at a domain's edge for a company that leads with another domain but also covers this one. A faint line runs to where it leads.
Dots around it: the other things it sells. Hollow while it is still expanding into them.
Click any star for the lines from its own website that put it there.
How to read it
A benchmark, in the domain most of its tasks are in. The logo is who built it.
Also covers: a benchmark mostly about another domain that also tests this one.
Lineage: a line from a benchmark to one built on it: its next version, a subset, an extension, or an index that combines it.
Click any star for the line from its own page or paper that put it there, and to light its lineage.
Research
All research posts- OpenAI now runs every frontier RL training run in an offline copy of the web: what its containment red team means for RL environments
- 94 AI benchmarks in one week: 54 came from papers, and 29 of 40 leaderboard additions were versions of existing benchmarks
- Penalize a reward hack and it goes silent: Gemini 4 Argon's hidden shortcuts tripled after a chain-of-thought penalty
- RL environment vendors are now the sandbox industry's customers: Daytona at a $1B valuation, Modal's sandboxes at a $300M run rate
In short
RL environments, in short
- What are RL environments?
- A simulated workplace where an AI agent practises a task (a code repository, a browser, business software) and an automatic grader scores each attempt. Labs train on thousands of these attempts. Bought to improve models. More in the glossary.
- Who sells RL environments?
- 72 companies we track sell RL environments, evals or verifiers, among them AfterQuery, HUD, Mercor, Symbal, Turing, Align AI, BenchFlow and Cua. Each is placed by a line from its own website; see them all on the RL environments page.
- What is the difference between an RL environment and a benchmark?
- An RL environment is for training: a model practises in it and a grader scores each attempt. A benchmark or eval is for measuring: a fixed, held-out set of tasks with fixed scoring, used to measure and compare models. Never trained on, so the score means something. Used to measure models.
- What are the main AI benchmarks for agents and LLMs?
- Among the most referenced: Humanity's Last Exam, Terminal-Bench 2.1, SWE-bench Verified, AIME 2025, Terminal-Bench Hard, GPQA Diamond, GPQA-D and MMLU-Pro. See the full AI benchmarks list.
- Where does this data come from?
- Every placement is read from the company's own website or the benchmark's own page or paper, quoted and linked, and the catalog is rebuilt daily from public sources. How the data is built.
From the builders
What vendors are posting
The newest post on X from each RL environment vendor we track, refreshed with every build. Scroll the feed for more. How we find their accounts.