Natural Questions

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About

Natural Questions is a question answering benchmark featuring real questions that people search for on Google, paired with Wikipedia articles containing the answers. It evaluates models' ability to find and extract answers from real-world documents, testing reading comprehension, information retrieval, and natural language understanding in authentic question-answering scenarios.

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Evaluation Stats
Total Models7
Organizations2
Verified Results0
Self-Reported7
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Benchmark Details
Max Score1
Language
en
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Performance Overview
Score distribution and top performers

Score Distribution

7 models
Top Score
34.5%
Average Score
24.0%
High Performers (80%+)
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Top Organizations

#1Mistral AI
1 model
31.2%
#2Google
6 models
22.8%
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Leaderboard
7 models ranked by performance on Natural Questions
LicenseLinks
Jun 27, 2024
Gemma
34.5%
Jul 18, 2024
Apache 2.0
31.2%
Jun 27, 2024
Gemma
29.2%
May 20, 2025
Gemma
20.9%
Jun 26, 2025
Proprietary
20.9%
May 20, 2025
Gemma
15.5%
Jun 26, 2025
Proprietary
15.5%
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