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93 days in first place

It held first place on Arena in Vision (93 days).

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Who held first place

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Credits LMArena.

The open-weights catch-up

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Credits LMArena.

The saturation clock

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Credits Epoch AI.

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Jesse Hawkins, “gemini-1.5-pro-002 · Frontier”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 30 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gemini-1-5-pro-002/. Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, CC BY 4.0.

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@misc{hawkins2026frontiergemini15pro002,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{gemini-1.5-pro-002 · Frontier}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gemini-1-5-pro-002/}},
  note = {Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities \& benchmarking, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-30}
}

Arena · LMArena

LMArena, "Arena leaderboard dataset", Hugging Face, revision 4491b06. https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset. CC BY 4.0.

Benchmarks · Epoch AI

Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource]. CC BY 4.0.

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Text: best place 3

place 239 of 419 on 28 October 2026

1st10th100th

On the board: 7 October 2024 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1319 (1316–1322) on 28 October 2026 · 55,606 votes

Vision: 93 days in first place

place 114 of 167 on 19 October 2026

1st10th100th

On the board: 4 November 2024 to 19 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1161 (1152–1170) on 19 October 2026 · 8,902 votes
First place: 4 November 2024 to 5 February 2025 · 93 days
Catch-up: Open weights matched it on 1 July 2025, 239 days after it first took first place: gemma-3-27b-it.

Epoch AI: Gemini 1.5 Pro (Sept 2024)

released 24 September 2024 · API access

GPQA diamond 57.2%
MATH level 5 70.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 23.1%

When each vendor retires it

every model’s dates

Google’s Vertex AI 24 Sep 2025 gemini-1.5-pro-002

Sources

Arena scores come from people voting between two anonymous answers. First place is the highest score; the top two are often within each other’s margin of error. LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, retrieved 30 October 2026; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, retrieved 30 October 2026. Both CC BY 4.0. Retirement dates: each vendor’s own deprecation page, quoted and kept, listed with the record.