New benchmark shows top AI models still struggle to 'see'

Moonshot AI's PerceptionBench tests multimodal AI models on visual perception, separate from logical reasoning. No frontier model scores above 60% accuracy, with GPT-5.6 Sol leading by a narrow margin, and many apparent reasoning errors actually trace back to misreading the image.

Why it matters: This suggests a meaningful share of AI 'reasoning' failures on visual tasks are really perception failures, pointing labs toward a different bottleneck than commonly assumed. It's a useful check against continued frontier-model benchmark claims covered elsewhere.