January 18, 2026 ongoing Get alerts for lmarena.ai

Summary: LMArena adds multi-modal leaderboards

Why It Matters: The platform has expanded from simple text comparisons to ranking AI models across many different categories like video, image editing, and web development.

What Changed:

  • Added new leaderboard categories for WebDev, Vision, Text-to-Image, Image Edit, Search, Text-to-Video, and Image-to-Video.
  • Updated the main rankings with new models including Gemini 3 Pro, Grok 4.1, and GPT-5.1.
  • Added a detailed "Arena Overview" table that ranks models by specific skills like Coding, Math, and Creative Writing.
  • Included specific "thinking" and "minimal thinking" model variants in the rankings.
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