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Recently a mystery AI model popped up in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena and it’s based on GPT-4 architecture.

Early testers are saying it's leaving GPT-4o in the dust when it comes to reasoning skills.

Now, you know how this goes. The rumor mill started churning instantly. Is this OpenAI's top-secret Q* model? Or maybe its evolution, "Project Strawberry"? Adding fuel to the fire, Sam tweeted this -

The thing is that OpenAI's pulled this stealth testing stunt before. They tested GPT-4o with gpt2-chatbot 2 weeks before the public release.

But that's not the only action in the Arena. Google's been making waves too. Their new Gemini 1.5 Pro (Experimental 0801) just crushed it after a week of community testing. We're talking over 12K votes here.

For the first time ever, Gemini snagged the #1 spot, beating out GPT-4o and Claude-3.5 with a crazy high score of 1300. It's even topping the Vision Leaderboard.

The big picture: The AI race is red hot. We've got mystery models, stealth releases, and established players leapfrogging each other. This isn't just about bragging rights or leaderboard positions. These advancements could redefine what's possible in natural language processing, multimodal understanding, and reasoning capabilities.

The tools at our disposal are about to get a lot more powerful, and the competitive landscape a whole lot more interesting

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