# GAIA

> GAIA is a benchmark for general AI assistants made of questions that are conceptually simple for people but require several steps of web browsing, file reading, multimodal understanding, and tool use to answer.

- Identifier: PTL-0206
- Category: Benchmarks
- Canonical URL: https://protologue.com/t/gaia/
- Introduced: 2023

## Description

Each question has a single short answer, which makes grading exact despite the open-ended process. It contrasts with benchmarks of expert knowledge by testing whether assistants can reliably carry out ordinary multi-step tasks.

## Broader terms

- [Benchmark](https://protologue.com/t/benchmark/)

## Related terms

- [AI Agent](https://protologue.com/t/ai-agent/)
- [Web Search Tool](https://protologue.com/t/web-search-tool/)
- [BrowseComp](https://protologue.com/t/browsecomp/)

## Sources

- Mialon et al. (2023). GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12983

## Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). GAIA. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.4.0, PTL-0206). https://protologue.com/t/gaia/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)