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WebGames: Challenging General-Purpose Web-Browsing AI Agents

arXiv 2502.18356 ↗First posted 25 Feb 2025cs.LGcited by 12

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Web, search, and research agents

Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce WebGames, a comprehensive benchmark suite designed to evaluate general-purpose web-browsing AI agents through a collection of 50+ interactive challenges. These challenges are specifically crafted to be straightforward for humans while systematically testing the limitations of current AI systems across fundamental browser interactions, advanced input processing, cognitive tasks, workflow automation, and interactive entertainment. Our framework eliminates external dependencies through a hermetic testing environment, ensuring reproducible evaluation with verifiable ground-truth solutions. We evaluate leading vision-language models including GPT-4o, Claude Computer-Use, Gemini-1.5-Pro, and Qwen2-VL against human performance. Results reveal a substantial capability gap, with the best AI system achieving only 43.1% success rate compared to human performance of 95.7%, highlighting fundamental limitations in current AI systems' ability to handle common web interaction patterns that humans find intuitive. The benchmark is publicly available at webgames.convergence.ai, offering a lightweight, client-side implementation that facilitates rapid evaluation cycles. Through its modular architecture and standardized challenge specifications, WebGames provides a robust foundation for measuring progress in development of more capable web-browsing agents.

Key facts. Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Web, search, and research agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 20 of its 29 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Feb 2025.

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  2. 2024GPT-4V(ision) is a Generalist Web Agent, if Grounded3 Jan
  3. 2023LASER: LLM Agent with State-Space Exploration for Web Navigation15 Sep
  4. 2023WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents25 Jul
  5. 2023Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web9 Jun
  6. 2022WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents4 Jul

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