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The Best AI Models Lose Half Their Performance on Complex Charts — New Benchmark Exposes a Persistent Gap
A new benchmark study finds that leading multimodal AI models, including GPT-4o, Gemini Ultra, and Claude Opus, lose approximately 50 percent of their chart interpretation accuracy when visual complexity increases beyond basic bar and line charts. The findings suggest that chart understanding remains a structurally difficult problem that current architectures have not solved.