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Conversation & EQ race

Warmth, tact, humour and reading between the lines in open conversation.

Leader
GPT-6.1 Sol
Margin
4 Elo
0.3% ahead
Weeks at #1
3
in a row
Changes
8
in 2026

Warming up the track…

Oct 19, 2026GPT-6.1 Sol leads
2025Apr ’25Jul ’25Oct ’252026Apr ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26

Score history

Top 6 today over the leader's frontier · click to jump to a week

#1 frontierGPT-6.1 SolOpus 5.5Fable 5.1Sonnet 5.5GPT-6 AstraMuse Wonder
1,3501,3751,4001,4251,4501,4751,5001,5252025Apr ’25Jul ’25Oct ’252026Apr ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26

Reigns at #1

Longest: GPT-4.5, 19 weeks (from Mar 2025).

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Why this race matters

For hundreds of millions of people, the chat experience is the product.

How it is scored

Elo-style rating from blind conversational votes.

Unit: eloHigher is betterPhoto finish under 5 EloDominant over 30 Elo

Data provenance

  • LMArena ↗

    Crowd-sourced blind pairwise votes, reported as Elo-style ratings.

  • EQ-Bench ↗

    Emotional intelligence scenarios.

Scores here are illustrative placeholders that mimic real benchmark patterns. Swap in live data through the score provider. Methodology