# Qwen Team releases BabelArena, a multilingual agent benchmark across 23 languages > Original title: In the Bible, humans tried to build the Tower of Babel but failed when language split them. Today, AI Agents are trying to "build" tasks ... - Source: ModelScope - Published: 2026-10-26T03:52:03.000Z - Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/pc6sgdmdg274mh11sndsehrpt - Original: https://x.com/ModelScope2022/status/2114565697133064199 ## Summary Qwen Team introduces BabelArena, an open-source multilingual agent benchmark covering 23 languages, with the dataset and paper linked in the post. It reports that no single model leads every benchmark. Low-resource languages show more tool-use and control-flow errors, agents use up to about 2x more tokens in them without extra interaction rounds, and language consistency drops in structured-output tasks, with switches mostly to English. ## Why it matters The post reports error patterns in low-resource languages, such as tool-use failures and extra token use, that accuracy scores alone would miss. ## Post In the Bible, humans tried to build the Tower of Babel but failed when language split them. Today, AI Agents are trying to "build" tasks across 23 languagesβ€”and facing the exact same barrier. πŸ§±πŸ—£ Qwen Team introduces BabelArena, a new open-source multilingual Agent benchmark on πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡ πŸ”— Dataset: https://modelscope.ai/datasets/Qwen/BabelArena πŸ“„ Paper: https://modelscope.ai/papers/2609.23490 πŸ† No single model dominates all benchmarks. ⚠ Low-resource languages show distinct failure modes: high rates of tool-use and control-flow errors (not just answer quality). πŸ“ˆ Agents consume up to ~2x more tokens in low-resource languages without more interaction rounds. πŸ—£ Language consistency drops in structured-output tasks, with switches overwhelmingly pointing to English. ![](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FHVhySDrWgAAPV2I.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1793404800&sig=d3b7906d577ee212) ![](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FHVhySDtXgAAYLje.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1793404800&sig=fb7572e0470023de) ![](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FHVhySDtXIAAu4t-.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1793404800&sig=b887067755beceae)