# AI leaderboard changes August 2025

As of Aug 28, 2025, 20 confirmed crown changes are recorded for August 2025.

## Confirmed crown changes

- Aug 28, 2025. Long context: Kimi K2 0711 Preview and DeepSeek V3.1 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 28, 2025. Image generation: Qwen Image Prompt Extend takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 28, 2025. General LLM: Kimi K2 0711 Preview and DeepSeek V3.1 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 27, 2025. Long context: Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 27, 2025. General LLM: Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 27, 2025. Reasoning: Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 and GLM 4.5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 27, 2025. Image edit: Qwen Image Edit takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 18, 2025. Reasoning: GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 18, 2025. Long context: GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Opus 4.1 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 18, 2025. General LLM: GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Opus 4.1 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 18, 2025. Long context: Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 and Kimi K2 0711 Preview are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 18, 2025. General LLM: Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 and Kimi K2 0711 Preview are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 14, 2025. Image generation: Qwen Image takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 7, 2025. Video generation: Veo 3 takes the crown. First holder recorded for this category and slice.
- Aug 7, 2025. Video generation: Wan V2.2 A14b takes the crown. First holder recorded for this category and slice.
- Aug 7, 2025. Reasoning: Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 and GLM 4.5 and Kimi K2 0711 Preview and DeepSeek R1 0528 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 7, 2025. Long context: Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 and Kimi K2 0711 Preview and DeepSeek R1 0528 and GLM 4.5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 7, 2025. General LLM: Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 and Kimi K2 0711 Preview and DeepSeek R1 0528 and GLM 4.5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Aug 7, 2025. Image generation: Qwen Image takes the crown. First holder recorded for this category and slice.
- Aug 4, 2025. Reasoning: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 and O3 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.

## Top 3

- Claude Opus 4.1 at #1 in General LLM
- Claude Opus 4.1 at #1 in Reasoning
- Claude Opus 4.1 at #1 in Long context
- Gemini 2.5 Pro at #1 in General LLM
- Gemini 2.5 Pro at #1 in Reasoning
- Gemini 2.5 Pro at #1 in Long context
- GPT-5 at #1 in General LLM
- GPT-5 at #1 in Reasoning
- GPT-5 at #1 in Long context
- O3 at #1 in Reasoning
- Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 at #1 in Reasoning
- Veo 3 at #1 in Video generation

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