LM Arena Accused of Reducing New Open-Source Model Visibility
SpicyWangz · reddit · 2026-07-11
The post questions whether LM Arena is "losing its edge," primarily because it seems to be showcasing fewer newly released open-source models.
The author notes that important recent models like the Qwen3.6 series and Step 3.7 Flash are missing, feeling this undermines their past habit of using LM Arena to compare new open-source models side-by-side.
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