Google Adds Local Benchmark Creation to Kaggle to Make Custom AI Evals Effortless

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Google announced new Kaggle tooling that lets developers build and run AI benchmarks locally, lowering the barrier to creating custom, reproducible evaluations rather than relying on public leaderboards. The move targets a real builder pain point — generic benchmarks rarely reflect a team's actual task distribution — by making eval authoring a first-class, local workflow. It fits the broader 2026 shift toward task-specific, money- and reality-grounded evaluation over headline benchmark scores.