IBM launches Open Agent Leaderboard for benchmarking enterprise agentic systems

Summary

IBM Research published the Open Agent Leaderboard on Hugging Face on May 18 — a benchmark suite designed to evaluate enterprise agentic systems across multi-step task completion, tool use accuracy, governance compliance, and cost-per-task. The leaderboard formalizes evaluation across major open and closed agentic frameworks and is positioned as a complement to SWE-bench / LiveCodeBench (which focus on raw coding capability rather than agentic loop quality). The signal is that enterprise agentic