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World's first benchmark for real-world visuals with 5.6M+ creators and counting. Made by @intelligence_ai
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BREAKING: MiniMax H3 by @MiniMax_AI is 1st across 3 Video categories (Multi-Image to Video, Image to Video, and Video Editing) on Design Arena.
MiniMax H3’s performance in Video Arena puts it ahead of other top performing models like Seedance 2.0 by @BytePlusGlobal, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview by @SpaceXAI, and Gemini Omni Flash by @GoogleDeepMind.
This marks another category to be led by open-weight models, following Kimi K3’s first place in our coding categories.
Congratulations to the @MiniMax_AI team for establishing a new SOTA in video generation!
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BREAKING: Kimi K3 lands in 1st on Slides Arena (Python-PPTX) by DesignArena
This open-weight model has an Elo of 1379 and wins 1st by the largest margin we've seen on Slides Arena!
We'll be following up with an example and deep dive shortly.
Congratulations to the @Kimi_Moonshot team!
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Design Arena has surpassed 5 million users!
Since launch, we've grown from 6 arenas to 30+ and seen our community create millions of designs.
What started as a way to compare AI-generated design has become one of the clearest views into how people actually use AI models in the real world.
Thank you to everyone building and sharing.
We can't wait to see what you design next!
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Kimi K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot really outperforms in 3D landscapes and scenes - here are 11 examples showing why it places 1st:
BREAKING: Kimi K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is 1st overall on 3D Design with an Elo of 1450.
This is a 6 position and 108 Elo jump from @Kimi_Moonshot's previous model, Kimi K2.6. This performance puts Kimi K2.6 82 Elo ahead of Claude Fable 5 by @AnthropicAI in 2nd and 87 Elo ahead of GLM 5.2 by @Zai_org in 3rd.
Congratulations to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on this accomplishment!
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A quick cost per task comparison of Kimi K3 @Kimi_Moonshot and GPT-5.6 Sol by @OpenAI.
At 3.2x cheaper, Kimi K3's model outputs web apps not just on par for design quality, but better across certain domains.
Kimi K3 establishes a new design SOTA and Pareto frontier for cost for design tasks.
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BREAKING: Kimi K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is officially 1st on Frontend Web App Arena by DesignArena
With an Elo of 1326, this open-weight model leads the way, ahead of Fable 5, Sonnet 5, and Opus 4.8 by @AnthropicAI
Huge congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team for this achievement!
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BREAKING: Kimi K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is officially 1st on Frontend Web App Arena by DesignArena
With an Elo of 1326, this open-weight model leads the way, ahead of Fable 5, Sonnet 5, and Opus 4.8 by @AnthropicAI
Huge congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team for this achievement!
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Kimi K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now available on Design Arena!
A 2.8T parameter open-weight model, Kimi K3 offers native visual understanding, that helps bring improvements across long-horizon agent tasks, coding, and research capabilities.
Compared to Kimi K2.6, the model is built on an entirely new architecture, designed to deliver stronger performance with faster generation times.
Congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on the launch!
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BREAKING: Inkling by @thinkymachines is 9th overall on Agentic Web App Arena by Design Arena with an Elo of 1257
It's an open-weight model in the same performance band as Claude Opus 4.6 by @AnthropicAI and Gemini 3.5 Flash by @GoogleDeepMind
This makes Inkling the highest-ranking US-based open-weight model for agentic workloads, achieving frontier-level performance
Congrats to the @thinkymachines team for this achievement!
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BREAKING: ImagineArt 2.0 Edit by @ImagineArt_X is 15th overall on Image Editing Arena with an Elo of 1182.
It is in the same performance band as Seedream 4.5 Edit by @BytePlusGlobal and UNI-1.1 Max by @LumaLabsAI. ImagineArt 2.0 Edit places @ImagineArt_X among the top 8 labs overall for image editing models.
Congratulations to the @ImagineArt_X team on the accomplishment!
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Good progress over the last 3 months! Congrats to the team at @OpenAI.
we still get looksmaxxed on frontend a little but we IQmog hard now
still sorta breaks my brain to see our models be good at design finally
BREAKING - OFFICIAL RESULTS: GPT-5.6 Sol by @OpenAI is 1st overall on Design Arena with an Elo of 1353.
This puts GPT-5.6 Sol above Claude Fable 5 by @AnthropicAI and in the same performance band as GLM 5.2 by @Zai_org on frontend design.
This is an 18-position and 60-point Elo leap from GPT-5.5.
GPT-5.6 Sol also establishes a new Pareto frontier for preference vs. speed, faster than any model at this performance.
Congratulations to the @OpenAI team on the launch!
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BREAKING: Gemini Omni Flash by @GoogleDeepMind is 1st overall on Video Arena with an Elo of 1404.
Gemini Omni Flash establishes a 101 point Elo gap over Seedance 2.0 Mini by @BytePlusGlobal in 2nd place, one of the largest leaps we’ve ever seen on Video Arena.
This establishes Google as the world’s leading video generation lab, with a leap of 7 positions from their Veo series.
Congratulations to the @GoogleDeepMind team on this accomplishment!
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Design Arena’s benchmarks now help power @OpenRouter’s MCP
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BREAKING: GLM-5.2 is now 1st on Design Arena.
With an Elo of 1360, GLM-5.2 has jumped ahead of the now unavailable Claude Fable 5.
And it's open weights.
This is an improvement of 4 positions and 27 Elo points to achieve one of the highest Elo scores in our code categories since Design Arena started.
Huge congratulations to the @Zai_org on the release!
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Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview by @xAI reclaims 1st in Image to Video with an Elo of 1357 on Design Arena.
With this model, @xAI establishes new Pareto frontiers in both Speed and Price, with an average generation time of 41.2 seconds and $0.01/img and $0.08/sec for the 480p quality.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview now leads Image to Video with a 49 point Elo gap, ahead of Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Fast by @BytePlusGlobal.
Congratulations to the @xAI team on this release!
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An open source model has returned to #1# on the 3D Design leaderboard by Design Arena.
Kimi K2.6 has reached the top of the leaderboard for 3D Design, ahead of models 10X more expensive like Opus 4.7 by @AnthropicAI, Gemini 3.5 Flash by @GoogleDeepMind, and GPT 5.5 by @OpenAI. This is an 18 position increase from its previous model Kimi K2.5.
In fact, it’s not just Kimi K2.6 - 3D Design is a striking outlier capability that’s mostly dominated by open-weight models, like GLM 5.1 by @Zai_org, MiMo v2.5 by @Xiaomi, amongst others.
Congrats on the @Kimi_Moonshot team for this accomplishment!
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