THE AI GRAVEYARD
Every model is falling.Some just started. Relative relevance changes as the frontier moves. This orbit shows the rating gap to the leader on the same published Arena board—not a model losing absolute capability.
Published 8 Oct 2026 · 100 rating points per inner ring. The event horizon is a visual metaphor.
BOARD FRONTIER −100 rating −200 rating EVENT HORIZON 300+ rating behind gemini 4 argon high gemini-4-argon-high · 0.0 rating below current leader claude opus 5.5 high claude-opus-5.5-high · 19.0 rating below current leader claude fable 5.1 max claude-fable-5.1-max · 23.8 rating below current leader claude opus 5 max claude-opus-5-max · 26.9 rating below current leader claude opus 4 6 high claude-opus-4-6-high · 31.0 rating below current leader claude opus 5 high claude-opus-5-high · 31.3 rating below current leader gemini 3.8 flash high gemini-3.8-flash-high · 34.9 rating below current leader claude-opus-4-6 · 35.8 rating below current leader mimo-v2.6-pro · 42.2 rating below current leader claude-fable-5-high · 42.6 rating below current leader claude-opus-4-7-high · 44.2 rating below current leader muse-spark-1.3-max · 44.3 rating below current leader gemini-3.7-flash-high · 47.8 rating below current leader qwen3.8-max · 50.5 rating below current leader claude-opus-4-7 · 50.6 rating below current leader muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh) · 51.6 rating below current leader gemini-3.5-flash-high · 51.9 rating below current leader gemini-3.1-pro-preview · 53.3 rating below current leader gemini-3-pro · 54.5 rating below current leader gemini-3.6-flash-high · 55.1 rating below current leader muse-spark-1.1 · 55.3 rating below current leader gemini-3.5-flash-medium · 56.4 rating below current leader qwen3.7-max-preview · 58.1 rating below current leader kimi-k3-max · 58.4 rating below current leader muse-spark · 60.0 rating below current leader gpt-5.5-high · 62.3 rating below current leader glm-5.3-max · 62.7 rating below current leader claude-sonnet-5.5-xhigh · 62.7 rating below current leader glm-5.3-flash · 62.8 rating below current leader qwen3.5-max-preview · 63.5 rating below current leader gpt-5.5 · 67.1 rating below current leader gemini-2.5-pro · 76.2 rating below current leader gpt-5.4 · 81.8 rating below current leader deepseek-v4-pro · 82.7 rating below current leader grok-4.5 · 85.7 rating below current leader qwen3.8-27b · 92.8 rating below current leader hy3 · 95.0 rating below current leader mistral-large-4 · 106.5 rating below current leader deepseek-v3.2 · 109.3 rating below current leader gemini-2.5-flash · 116.9 rating below current leader grok-4.3 · 137.0 rating below current leader deepseek-r1 · 161.2 rating below current leader gpt-oss-120b · 168.4 rating below current leader gemma-3-27b-it · 176.1 rating below current leader deepseek-v3 · 201.4 rating below current leader gpt-4o-2024-05-13 · 233.4 rating below current leader claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 · 234.5 rating below current leader claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022 · 236.1 rating below current leader llama-3.3-70b-instruct · 259.6 rating below current leader mistral-large-2411 · 268.6 rating below current leader