Arena weekly: Nano Banana 2.1 top-6 on three image boards, Mistral Large 4 climbs to #43 in Agent Arena
arena · x · 2026-10-09
LMArena's weekly recap:
- Nano Banana 2.1 ranks top-6 across three Image Arena modes: #4 (1431 pts) in Multi-Image Edit, #5 (1328 pts) in Text-to-Image, and #6 (1428 pts) in Image Edit.
- Mistral Large 4 lands at #43 overall in Agent Arena (-6.6%), eleven spots above Mistral Medium 3.5 (-12.60%), making Mistral the only European lab in the top 15.
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) debuts at #30 (1587 pts) in Code Arena: WebDev, matching GPT-6 Luna's $0.10/$0.50 per 1M token pricing while scoring six points higher.
- Arena also introduced its Alignment Index and announced a $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation.
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