VNU-Bench - Narrative Angle Comparison: leaderboard

VNU-Bench (Liu et al., University of Florida, 2026) question type in which a multimodal model must compare the interpretive lens, tone, emphasis and perspective of different outlets, given a group of YouTube news videos on one event. Each video is given as 4 selected frames and a cleaned transcript cut to 1,000 characters; zero-shot at temperature 0. Accuracy in percent on 4-option multiple-choice questions; higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; question type T4, 4-option multiple choice). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 13 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Flash66.4#452
2Claude Sonnet 4.564.8#244
3Gemini 2.5 Pro57.69#262
4Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct57.2#1842
5InternVL3-8B44.2#1695

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=vnu-bench-narrative-angle-comparison · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.