Since Gemini 3 made its debut, it has successfully held the top spot on the LMArena leaderboard. This leaderboard is a crowdsourced ranking where thousands of real users compare AI models head-to-head across a wide range of tasks, voting on which response is better. But when it comes to reaching the toughest reasoning benchmarks, there's a new kid on the block, and it's already pulled ahead of Google — and it did it without training its own model.
A six-person team startup known as Poetiq says it has taken the top spot on the ARC-AGI-2 semi-private test set, a notoriously difficult reasoning challenge created by AI researcher François Chollet. The startup’s system scored 54 percent, edging out what Google previously reported for Gemini 3 Deep Think at around 45 percent.
To put that in perspective, most AI models were stuck under 5 percent on this benchmark just six months ago. Cracking 50 percent is something researchers widely assumed was years away.
