New #1September 11, 2026Impact
Claude Opus 4.6 takes #1 on LMArena Text · Multi-Turn
On the LMArena Text · Multi-Turn leaderboard published Sep 11, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 moved from #2 to #1 with 1512, ahead of Gemini 3.8 Flash (1510).
Why it matters
LMArena Text · Multi-Turn is the source for the Conversation race on AIModelRace, so the race leader follows it.
The details
- Claude Opus 4.6: 1512 from 12,292 votes.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1510.
- Ranks here are by rating among all models on the board; LMArena's own rank also accounts for confidence intervals.
Models in this story
Provenance: LMArena leaderboard published Sep 11, 2026; ratings from blind pairwise votes. Generated automatically from the published data. Sources: LMArena Text · Multi-Turn leaderboard · LMArena leaderboard dataset (CC BY 4.0) See the race.