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Week 39, 2026September 25, 2026
Opus 5.5 takes the crown in the busiest launch week of the year
Tuesday, September 22 brought five launches in one day: Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna, and Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash. That's enough to reshuffle the whole board. This is our debut edition, so there are no movement arrows yet. From next week, every change gets tracked.
The Top 10
Full standings, every category →| # | Movement± | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | · | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | 97 |
| 2 | · | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | 95 |
| 3 | · | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | 94 |
| 4 | · | GPT-6 SolOpenAI | 92 |
| 5 | · | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | 90 |
| 6 | · | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | 89 |
| 7 | · | Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle | 87 |
| 8 | · | Kimi K3Moonshot AI | 86 |
| 9 | · | Grok 4.7xAI | 84 |
| 10 | · | GLM-5.3Z.ai · open | 84 |
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