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1 day in first place

It held first place on Arena in WebDev (1 day).

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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, “qwen3.8-max-0902 · Frontier”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 30 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/qwen3-8-max-0902/. Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, CC BY 4.0.

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@misc{hawkins2026frontierqwen38max0902,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{qwen3.8-max-0902 · Frontier}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/qwen3-8-max-0902/}},
  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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WebDev: 1 day in first place

place 13 of 152 on 28 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 1 September 2026 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1676 (1669–1683) on 28 October 2026 · 17,936 votes
First place: 1 September 2026 to 2 September 2026 · 1 day
Catch-up: No open-weights model has matched it in the 57 days since it first took first place.

Epoch AI: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

released 1 September 2026 · API access

Chess Puzzles 37.0%
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Furniture Assembly 20.0%
GPQA diamond 92.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 100.0%
SimpleQA Verified 47.3%

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.