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The Hardest Unsolved Problems in Multimodal AI

Leaderboards read like steady progress toward one unified system. Five specific capabilities are not solved, by the researchers' own published admission — and each has a benchmark built to prove it.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 23, 2026 · 15 min read

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