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On the radar
New and emerging contenders that could change the board.
28 OCT
Gemini 4 Carbon
Threatens: Overall LLM
New Google frontier model, straight to AA #1
Early data
Why we’re watching
26 OCT
GPT-6.1 Terra
Threatens: Overall LLM
OpenAI's computer-use model, now broadly offered
Unverified
Why we’re watching
23 OCT
LFM3-1.7B
Threatens: Small / on-device LLM
Liquid's 1.7B edge model, GGUF from day one
Unverified
Why we’re watching
17 OCT
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Threatens: Open-weight LLM
MIT-licensed FP8 MoE, image and text input
Early data
Why we’re watching
14 OCT
Audio8-TTS-Realistic-0.6b
Threatens: Open-weight TTS
0.6B open TTS claiming zero-shot voice cloning
Unverified
Why we’re watching
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What changed
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1 NOV
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 enters the Artificial Analysis top three; ARK-ASR-3B holds the titleArtificial Analysis added two Voxtral Transcribe 3 entries on 1 November 2026: Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 at #3 (2.1%) and Voxtral Mini T…
Challenge
1 NOV
Gemini 4 Carbon (High) challenges Claude Fable 5.1 for best overall llmGemini 4 Carbon (High) would take this title on today's evidence, but the case has not yet cleared our bar for a change, so it is recorde…
Challenge
1 NOV
Weekly review: all 10 titles re-verifiedAll 10 picks were re-verified against the live leaderboards, repositories and release pages.
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