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Open weights briefly beat every proprietary model in early 2025 (deepseek-r1); today the best.

The best open model trails the best closed model by 42 Arena points. In a blind vote it would.

Google leads the Arena again; Anthropic trails by 22 points and OpenAI by 62. Query full.

qwen3.8-max trails claude-fable-5.1-max by 27 points. Over the past year the gap has stayed.

Anthropic holds 8 of the Arena top 20, Google 7 and OpenAI 0. In Apr 2025 OpenAI held 9 and.

The Vercel AI SDK fell from 31 to 23 weekly downloads per 100 downloads of the OpenAI,.

Of 51 named model launches since 6 Jul 2026, 22 stated their weights: 18 closed, 4 open. All.

On 11 Sept 2026, Claude's best model rates 40 points above OpenAI's and 16 above Gemini's..

The gap between Arena's #1 and #10 models fell from 148 points in Feb 2024 to 18. #10 now wins.

Google holds #1 in 6 of 8 Arena categories; Anthropic in 2. OpenAI has no category in the top.

Anthropic builds 14 of the Arena's top 50 models and OpenAI builds 5. But 44% of US adults use.

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Anthropic's SDK went from 34% to 97% of the OpenAI SDK's weekly npm downloads in 46 weeks. It.

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ChatGPT reports 900M weekly users (Feb 2026). Gemini reports 950M monthly (Jul 2026), 2.4× its.

OpenAI's models hold 17.9% of all 12.3M Arena votes and none of the top 20 seats. Anthropic's.

The top 10% of pre-seed AI startups command 3.4x higher valuations ($28.0M vs $8.2M) than.

OpenAI was the #1 lab on Arena for 95% of 2024. On 25 Sept 2026 it ranks 8th among labs, and.

66% of developers use AI coding assistants, but only 48% trust AI output they can validate, a.

14 models are statistically tied for #1 in Arena math, spanning 49 points. 4 are Flash models.