Natural Questions
Natural Questions is a question answering benchmark with real queries from Google Search. Each question has a long answer (paragraph) and a short answer (entity or phrase) from Wikipedia, testing both retrieval and comprehension.
Metrics
F1 score on Google Search questions
Created By
Google Research
Paper
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Visit website →Top Model Scores
| Rank | Model | Score | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 | 78.3 | 2026-03 |
| 2 | Gemini 3 Ultra | 77.6 | 2026-01 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 76.8 | 2026-02 |
| 4 | Grok 4 | 74.2 | 2026-02 |
| 5 | Llama 4 405B | 71.5 | 2026-01 |
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