Today, July 6, 2026, VinUni's AI Research Center officially unveiled V-Bench, a nonprofit tool developed to serve the community and promote responsible AI in Vietnam. V-Bench is one of the most comprehensive tools for measuring the Vietnamese-language processing capabilities of large language models (LLMs). It assembles a dataset of more than 40,000 questions and tasks, designed to cover breadth and depth and to reflect cultural, linguistic, sovereignty, information security, and local-context considerations. V-Bench is designed to evaluate models beyond academic Q&A, assessing cultural understanding, regional dialects, and the ability to operate autonomously in Vietnamese contexts.
V-Bench was developed as a nonprofit tool by VinUni's AI Research Center to serve the community and promote responsible AI in Vietnam.
V-Bench is structured into two major categories and five specialized evaluation groups, including:
Thanks to its detailed grouping, V-Bench measures not only answer quality but also cultural and linguistic nuance and AI's ability to perform tasks in real contexts. It is compatible with international benchmark ecosystems, enabling global LLM developers to participate without technical barrier. V-Bench is currently offered free of charge. To date, V-Bench has conducted evaluations and published reference results for 15 notable LLMs. In the future, the tool will be extended to include image and audio evaluation criteria, such as Nom writing system, regional signs, charts, cultural heritage, voice understanding across three regions, understanding long Vietnamese documents like laws, contracts and textbooks, with precise quoted references from regulatory texts and official gazettes.
Forecasts published in June by NIC, JICA and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in a report on the AI Economy of Vietnam indicate that AI will become central to the economy in the 2030-2040 period, potentially contributing up to 130 billion USD.
Earlier, in June 2025, NIC, JICA and BCG published a report that AI would be a core component of the Vietnamese economy in 2030-2040, and could contribute up to 130 billion USD.
These projections position AI as a central driver of the Vietnamese economy for 2030-2040, with forecasts of up to 130 billion USD in economic contribution.
The material notes that the forecasts come from NIC, JICA and BCG and that V-Bench capabilities aim to reflect cultural and linguistic nuance in AI evaluation, as well as the broader role of AI in Vietnam's economy.
