OpenAI recently announced its ChatGPT 4o update, which took the AI model to the second spot on the Arena leaderboard, surpassing GPT-4.5. As per the X post from lmarena.ai (formerly lmsys.org), the newest ChatGPT-4o release (dated March 26, 2025) shows a major improvement over its January version, gaining 30 points and climbing from rank No. 5 to No. 2.
News: the latest ChatGPT-4o (2025-03-26) jumps to #2 on Arena, surpassing GPT-4.5!
— lmarena.ai (formerly lmsys.org) (@lmarena_ai) March 27, 2025
Highlights
– Significant improvement over the January version (+30 pts, #5->#2)
– Tied #1 in Coding, Hard Prompts. Top-2 across ALL categories
– Matching or surpassing GPT-4.5 with 10x cheaper… https://t.co/m5jQ0BXffV pic.twitter.com/3NK7Eh6Ri8