Microsoft releases ThinkingBox to grade AI agents on database state

Microsoft launched ThinkingBox, a benchmark that grades AI agents on the backend database state and side effects they leave in 507 stateful business workflows rather than on generated text or tool calls, running each task 20 times to test consistency. It is now available via Hugging Face and OpenEnv.

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