https://www.scmp.com/rss/523447/feed The latest news and top stories on LMArena. A prominent San Francisco Bay Area-based research institute, LMArena, formerly Chatbot Arena, is dedicated to evaluating large language models through anonymous crowd-sourced comparisons. Originating as a UC Berkeley research project, it has evolved into a company, Arena Intelligence Inc., providing a public web-based platform for benchmarking AI models. Its main activities include maintaining a dynamic leaderboard, fostering open-source AI development... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Coco Feng Coco Feng Alibaba Group Holding unveiled the preview version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model to date, solidifying its position as China’s leader in the race to catch American giants like Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. Qwen3.5-Max-Preview, the flagship model of Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 family, is now available on Arena, formerly known as LMArena, a model performance community created by researchers from UC Berkeley. Alibaba, which owns the South China Morning Post, unveiled the model on... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3347272/preview-alibabas-strongest-ai-model-tops-chinese-peers-ranking-lags-us-rivals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3347272/preview-alibabas-strongest-ai-model-tops-chinese-peers-ranking-lags-us-rivals?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:00:08 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Tencent Holdings’ new artificial intelligence model, Hunyuan Image 3.0, has surpassed Google DeepMind’s “Nano Banana” as the leading image-generation model among both open-source and closed products, according to a major public leaderboard. As of Saturday, the open-source Hunyuan Image 3.0 secured the top position in the text-to-image rankings on LMArena, an AI model evaluation platform originally started by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The previous leader – Google... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328003/tencents-ai-model-hunyuan-image-30-tops-leaderboard-beating-googles-nano-banana?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3328003/tencents-ai-model-hunyuan-image-30-tops-leaderboard-beating-googles-nano-banana?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:00:15 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Two new Chinese artificial intelligence models have broken into a top 10 leaderboard for both open- and closed-source models, highlighting China’s progress in closing the gap with leading US developers. Alibaba Group Holding’s 1 trillion-parameter Qwen3-max-preview model debuted in sixth place in the latest “text arena” ranking by LMArena – an AI model evaluation platform started by University of California, Berkeley researchers – making it the top Chinese model. Meanwhile, Alibaba-backed... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3324887/alibabas-qwen3-and-moonshots-kimi-k2-crack-top-10-ai-rankings-closing-us-models?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3324887/alibabas-qwen3-and-moonshots-kimi-k2-crack-top-10-ai-rankings-closing-us-models?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:09 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao China is home to the world’s top artificial intelligence (AI) models that are open-sourced, according to an American benchmarking platform created by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley. Kimi K2, MiniMax M1, Qwen 3 and a variant of DeepSeek R1 were ranked as the world’s top open-sourced AI models, beating out offerings like Google’s Gemma 3-72B and Meta’s Llama 4-Maverick, LMArena said in a report on Friday. The winners were determined by “comparing them side by side and... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3318985/chinese-open-source-ai-models-occupy-top-spots-among-global-developers-ranking?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3318985/chinese-open-source-ai-models-occupy-top-spots-among-global-developers-ranking?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:00:15 +0000