Exclusive: Nvidia and ChipAgents Launch Evaluation For AI-Powered Chip Design

Exclusive: Nvidia and ChipAgents Launch Evaluation For AI-Powered Chip Design

By Phoebe Liu
Publication Date: 2026-10-14 15:10:00

Nvidia and ChipAgents, a startup that helps customers automate chip design, on Wednesday released a benchmark that measures how different AI models perform at the task.

Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 powered the best-performing AI agent in the newly released evaluation but only scored 16.6% on the test, ChipAgents said. According to CEO William Wang, ChipAgents made its benchmark more difficult than