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author Froger, Romain
Andrews, Pierre
Bettini, Matteo
Budhiraja, Amar
Cabral, Ricardo Silveira
Do, Virginie
Garreau, Emilien
Gaya, Jean-Baptiste
Laurençon, Hugo
Lecanu, Maxime
Malkan, Kunal
Mekala, Dheeraj
Ménard, Pierre
Bertran, Gerard Moreno-Torres
Piterbarg, Ulyana
Plekhanov, Mikhail
Rita, Mathieu
Rusakov, Andrey
Vorotilov, Vladislav
Wang, Mengjue
Yu, Ian
Benhalloum, Amine
Mialon, Grégoire
Scialom, Thomas
author_facet Froger, Romain
Andrews, Pierre
Bettini, Matteo
Budhiraja, Amar
Cabral, Ricardo Silveira
Do, Virginie
Garreau, Emilien
Gaya, Jean-Baptiste
Laurençon, Hugo
Lecanu, Maxime
Malkan, Kunal
Mekala, Dheeraj
Ménard, Pierre
Bertran, Gerard Moreno-Torres
Piterbarg, Ulyana
Plekhanov, Mikhail
Rita, Mathieu
Rusakov, Andrey
Vorotilov, Vladislav
Wang, Mengjue
Yu, Ian
Benhalloum, Amine
Mialon, Grégoire
Scialom, Thomas
contents We introduce Meta Agents Research Environments (ARE), a research platform for scalable creation of environments, integration of synthetic or real applications, and execution of agentic orchestrations. ARE provides simple abstractions to build complex and diverse environments, each with their own rules, tools, content, and verifiers, helping to bridge the gap between model development and real-world deployment. We also propose Gaia2, a benchmark built in ARE and designed to measure general agent capabilities. Beyond search and execution, Gaia2 requires agents to handle ambiguities and noise, adapt to dynamic environments, collaborate with other agents, and operate under temporal constraints. Unlike prior benchmarks, Gaia2 runs asynchronously, surfacing new failure modes that are invisible in static settings. Our experiments show that no system dominates across the intelligence spectrum: stronger reasoning often comes at the cost of efficiency, and budget scaling curves plateau, highlighting the need for new architectures and adaptive compute strategies. Perhaps more importantly, ARE abstractions enable continuous extension of Gaia2 to other environments, empowering the community to rapidly create new benchmarks tailored to their domains. In AI's second half, progress increasingly depends on defining meaningful tasks and robust evaluations to drive frontier capabilities forward.
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spellingShingle ARE: Scaling Up Agent Environments and Evaluations
Froger, Romain
Andrews, Pierre
Bettini, Matteo
Budhiraja, Amar
Cabral, Ricardo Silveira
Do, Virginie
Garreau, Emilien
Gaya, Jean-Baptiste
Laurençon, Hugo
Lecanu, Maxime
Malkan, Kunal
Mekala, Dheeraj
Ménard, Pierre
Bertran, Gerard Moreno-Torres
Piterbarg, Ulyana
Plekhanov, Mikhail
Rita, Mathieu
Rusakov, Andrey
Vorotilov, Vladislav
Wang, Mengjue
Yu, Ian
Benhalloum, Amine
Mialon, Grégoire
Scialom, Thomas
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
We introduce Meta Agents Research Environments (ARE), a research platform for scalable creation of environments, integration of synthetic or real applications, and execution of agentic orchestrations. ARE provides simple abstractions to build complex and diverse environments, each with their own rules, tools, content, and verifiers, helping to bridge the gap between model development and real-world deployment. We also propose Gaia2, a benchmark built in ARE and designed to measure general agent capabilities. Beyond search and execution, Gaia2 requires agents to handle ambiguities and noise, adapt to dynamic environments, collaborate with other agents, and operate under temporal constraints. Unlike prior benchmarks, Gaia2 runs asynchronously, surfacing new failure modes that are invisible in static settings. Our experiments show that no system dominates across the intelligence spectrum: stronger reasoning often comes at the cost of efficiency, and budget scaling curves plateau, highlighting the need for new architectures and adaptive compute strategies. Perhaps more importantly, ARE abstractions enable continuous extension of Gaia2 to other environments, empowering the community to rapidly create new benchmarks tailored to their domains. In AI's second half, progress increasingly depends on defining meaningful tasks and robust evaluations to drive frontier capabilities forward.
title ARE: Scaling Up Agent Environments and Evaluations
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17158