Who leads the AI leaderboards, and for how long. Data: LMArena and Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0.https://jesseahawkins.com/en-ushttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gemini-4-carbon-high/frontier:lead:text:Gemini 4 Carbon (High):2026-10-28Gemini 4 Carbon (High) took first place in Text, from gemini-4-argon-high. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gemini-4-argon-high/frontier:lead:text:gemini-4-argon-high:2026-09-30gemini-4-argon-high took first place in Text, from claude-opus-5.5-high. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-fable-5-high/frontier:lead:vision:claude-fable-5-high:2026-09-28claude-fable-5-high took first place in Vision, from claude-fable-5. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/mimo-v2-6-pro/frontier:match:text:mimo-v2.6-pro:2026-09-25:gemini-3-proOpen weights matched gemini-3-pro in Text: mimo-v2.6-pro, 313 days after gemini-3-pro took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-5-5-high/frontier:lead:text:claude-opus-5.5-high:2026-09-25claude-opus-5.5-high took first place in Text, from claude-fable-5.1-max. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-5-5-max/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-opus-5.5-max:2026-09-23claude-opus-5.5-max took first place in WebDev, from gpt-6-astra-max. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gpt-image-2-5-sunburst/frontier:lead:text_to_image:gpt-image-2.5-sunburst:2026-09-08gpt-image-2.5-sunburst took first place in Text to image, from gpt-image-2 (medium). Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gpt-6-astra-max/frontier:lead:webdev:gpt-6-astra-max:2026-09-05gpt-6-astra-max took first place in WebDev, from claude-fable-5.1-max. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-fable-5-1-max/frontier:lead:text:claude-fable-5.1-max:2026-09-02claude-fable-5.1-max took first place in Text, from claude-opus-5-max. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-fable-5-1-max/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-fable-5.1-max:2026-09-02claude-fable-5.1-max took first place in WebDev, from qwen3.8-max-0902. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/#clockfrontier:saturate:frontiermath-tiers-1-3-v2-private:claude-fable-5-1_max:2026-09-01FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private reached 90%: claude-fable-5-1_max scored 90.2%, 81 days after the benchmark came out. Data: Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/qwen3-8-max-0902/frontier:lead:webdev:qwen3.8-max-0902:2026-09-01qwen3.8-max-0902 took first place in WebDev, from claude-opus-5-max. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-5-max/frontier:lead:text:claude-opus-5-max:2026-08-27claude-opus-5-max took first place in Text, from claude-opus-5-high. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-5-high/frontier:lead:text:claude-opus-5-high:2026-08-19claude-opus-5-high took first place in Text, from claude-opus-5-max. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-5-max/frontier:lead:text:claude-opus-5-max:2026-07-27claude-opus-5-max took first place in Text, from claude-opus-5-high. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-5-max/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-opus-5-max:2026-07-27claude-opus-5-max took first place in WebDev, from kimi-k3-max. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/kimi-k3-max/frontier:match:webdev:kimi-k3-max:2026-07-26:claude-fable-5Open weights matched claude-fable-5 in WebDev: kimi-k3-max, 46 days after claude-fable-5 took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/kimi-k3-max/frontier:match:webdev:kimi-k3-max:2026-07-26:gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (codex-harness)Open weights matched gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (codex-harness) in WebDev: kimi-k3-max, 14 days after gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (codex-harness) took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-5-high/frontier:lead:text:claude-opus-5-high:2026-07-26claude-opus-5-high took first place in Text, from claude-opus-4-6-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/kimi-k3-max/frontier:lead:webdev:kimi-k3-max:2026-07-26kimi-k3-max took first place in WebDev, from kimi-k3. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/kimi-k3/frontier:lead:webdev:kimi-k3:2026-07-16kimi-k3 took first place in WebDev, from gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (codex-harness). Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gpt-5-6-sol-xhigh-codex-harness/frontier:lead:webdev:gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (codex-harness):2026-07-12gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (codex-harness) took first place in WebDev, from claude-fable-5. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/glm-5-2-max/frontier:match:webdev:glm-5.2 (max):2026-06-16:claude-opus-4-6Open weights matched claude-opus-4-6 in WebDev: glm-5.2 (max), 130 days after claude-opus-4-6 took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/glm-5-2-max/frontier:match:webdev:glm-5.2 (max):2026-06-16:claude-opus-4-6-thinkingOpen weights matched claude-opus-4-6-thinking in WebDev: glm-5.2 (max), 127 days after claude-opus-4-6-thinking took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/glm-5-2-max/frontier:match:webdev:glm-5.2 (max):2026-06-16:claude-opus-4-7Open weights matched claude-opus-4-7 in WebDev: glm-5.2 (max), 60 days after claude-opus-4-7 took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/glm-5-2-max/frontier:match:webdev:glm-5.2 (max):2026-06-16:claude-opus-4-7-thinkingOpen weights matched claude-opus-4-7-thinking in WebDev: glm-5.2 (max), 57 days after claude-opus-4-7-thinking took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/#clockfrontier:saturate:frontiermath-tier-4-v2-private:claude-fable-5_max:2026-06-12FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private reached 90%: claude-fable-5_max scored 90.2%, 0 days after the benchmark came out. Data: Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-fable-5/frontier:lead:vision:claude-fable-5:2026-06-10claude-fable-5 took first place in Vision, from claude-opus-4-7-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-fable-5/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-fable-5:2026-06-10claude-fable-5 took first place in WebDev, from claude-opus-4-7-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-7-thinking/frontier:lead:vision:claude-opus-4-7-thinking:2026-06-03claude-opus-4-7-thinking took first place in Vision, from claude-opus-4-7. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-7/frontier:lead:vision:claude-opus-4-7:2026-05-12claude-opus-4-7 took first place in Vision, from claude-opus-4-7-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-7-thinking/frontier:lead:vision:claude-opus-4-7-thinking:2026-05-07claude-opus-4-7-thinking took first place in Vision, from claude-opus-4-6-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-6-thinking/frontier:lead:vision:claude-opus-4-6-thinking:2026-04-27claude-opus-4-6-thinking took first place in Vision, from claude-opus-4-7. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-7/frontier:lead:vision:claude-opus-4-7:2026-04-22claude-opus-4-7 took first place in Vision, from claude-opus-4-7-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gpt-image-2-medium/frontier:lead:text_to_image:gpt-image-2 (medium):2026-04-21gpt-image-2 (medium) took first place in Text to image, from gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-7-thinking/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-opus-4-7-thinking:2026-04-20claude-opus-4-7-thinking took first place in WebDev, from claude-opus-4-7. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-7-thinking/frontier:lead:vision:claude-opus-4-7-thinking:2026-04-19claude-opus-4-7-thinking took first place in Vision, from claude-opus-4-6-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-7/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-opus-4-7:2026-04-17claude-opus-4-7 took first place in WebDev, from claude-opus-4-6-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-6-thinking/frontier:lead:vision:claude-opus-4-6-thinking:2026-04-10claude-opus-4-6-thinking took first place in Vision, from claude-opus-4-6. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/glm-5-1/frontier:match:webdev:glm-5.1:2026-04-09:claude-opus-4-5-20251101-thinking-32kOpen weights matched claude-opus-4-5-20251101-thinking-32k in WebDev: glm-5.1, 134 days after claude-opus-4-5-20251101-thinking-32k took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/glm-5-1/frontier:match:text:glm-5.1:2026-04-07:gemini-2.5-proOpen weights matched gemini-2.5-pro in Text: glm-5.1, 287 days after gemini-2.5-pro took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-6-thinking/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-opus-4-6-thinking:2026-04-02claude-opus-4-6-thinking took first place in WebDev, from claude-opus-4-6. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-6/frontier:lead:vision:claude-opus-4-6:2026-03-31claude-opus-4-6 took first place in Vision, from gemini-3-pro. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-6-thinking/frontier:lead:text:claude-opus-4-6-thinking:2026-03-18claude-opus-4-6-thinking took first place in Text, from claude-opus-4-6. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-6/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-opus-4-6:2026-03-16claude-opus-4-6 took first place in WebDev, from claude-opus-4-6-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-6-thinking/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-opus-4-6-thinking:2026-03-04claude-opus-4-6-thinking took first place in WebDev, from claude-opus-4-6. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gemini-3-1-flash-image-preview-nano-banana-2-web-search/frontier:lead:text_to_image:gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search]:2026-02-25gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview (nano-banana-2) [web-search] took first place in Text to image, from gpt-image-1.5-high-fidelity. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-6/frontier:lead:text:claude-opus-4-6:2026-02-19claude-opus-4-6 took first place in Text, from claude-opus-4-6-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-4-6/frontier:lead:webdev:claude-opus-4-6:2026-02-17claude-opus-4-6 took first place in WebDev, from claude-opus-4-6-thinking. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/glm-5/frontier:match:webdev:glm-5:2026-02-12:gemini-3-proOpen weights matched gemini-3-pro in WebDev: glm-5, 88 days after gemini-3-pro took first place. Data: LMArena, CC BY 4.0.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT