Arena weekly: Gemini 4 Carbon tops Text Arena, GPT-6.1 Terra enters Agent Arena at #8
arena · x · 2026-10-31
Arena's weekly recap:
- Gemini 4 Carbon (High) landed #1 in Text Arena, #2 in Agent Arena, and #4 in WebDev Code Arena, reshaping the Pareto frontier across all three.
- GPT-6.1 Terra (Max) debuted at #8 in Agent Arena with a +10.6% net improvement at a $0.62 median cost per task, emphasizing price efficiency.
- MAI-Image-2.7-Preview debuted at #3 in the Single Image Edit Arena, 45 points above its previous variant at #6.
- Arena also launched Connectors for Agent Mode, letting users chain tools like Vercel, Linear, and GitHub in a single task.
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