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Most AI benchmarks test retrieval — can a model find the known answer? However, the hardest problems in science require discovery, can a system earn an answer nobody has yet? Meet TRACES 🧭 — the world's first benchmark for measuring discoverative AI: AI that can work through evidence, test hypotheses, and reach verifiable conclusions on problems without answer keys. Proposed by our founder TianqiaoChen, who defined its six capabilities. Three things published today: a definition of "discoverative intelligence", a rubric to tell sound investigation from lucky guesses, and a open call for both solvers and problems *Website: