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13 days in first place

It held first place on Arena in Text (13 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, “gpt-4-0125-preview · Frontier”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 30 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gpt-4-0125-preview/. Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, CC BY 4.0.

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@misc{hawkins2026frontiergpt40125preview,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{gpt-4-0125-preview · Frontier}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/gpt-4-0125-preview/}},
  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: 13 days in first place

last on the board 15 October 2026

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On the board: 2 February 2024 to 15 October 2026
Score: 1262 (1258–1266) on 15 October 2026 · 93,439 votes
First place: 2 February 2024 to 15 February 2024 · 13 days
Catch-up: Open weights matched it on 30 July 2024, 179 days after it first took first place: llama-3.1-405b-instruct.

Not in Epoch AI’s benchmark data

No model in Epoch AI’s list is the same release as this Arena name.

When each vendor retires it

every model’s dates

OpenAI 26 Mar 2026 gpt-4-0125-preview · 181 days’ notice, from the notice on 26 Sep 2025

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.