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Gemini 4 Carbon (High)

0 days in first place so far

It took first place on Arena in Text on 2026-10-28, the newest day of the data.

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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 4 Carbon (High) · Frontier”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 30 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gemini-4-carbon-high/. Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, CC BY 4.0.

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@misc{hawkins2026frontiergemini4carbonhigh,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{Gemini 4 Carbon (High) · Frontier}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gemini-4-carbon-high/}},
  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 1

place 1 of 419 on 28 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 28 October 2026 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1540 (1531–1549) on 28 October 2026 · 4,403 votes
First place: 28 October 2026 to 28 October 2026, still first · 0 days
Catch-up: No open-weights model has matched it in the 0 days since it first took first place.

WebDev: best place 4

place 4 of 152 on 28 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 28 October 2026 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1768 (1753–1783) on 28 October 2026 · 2,230 votes

Epoch AI: Gemini 4 Carbon

released 28 October 2026 · Unreleased

Epoch AI lists this model but has not run any of its own benchmarks on it.

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.