# AI leaderboard changes October 2025

As of Oct 17, 2025, 9 confirmed crown changes are recorded for October 2025.

## Confirmed crown changes

- Oct 17, 2025. Video generation: Sora 2 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Oct 17, 2025. Reasoning: Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Oct 17, 2025. Long context: Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-4.5 Preview are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Oct 17, 2025. General LLM: Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-4.5 Preview are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Oct 17, 2025. Reasoning: Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Oct 16, 2025. Long context: GLM 4.6 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Oct 3, 2025. Long context: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Oct 3, 2025. General LLM: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Oct 1, 2025. Reasoning: Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct and Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.

## Top 3

- Claude Opus 4.1 at #1 in Reasoning
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 at #1 in General LLM
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 at #1 in Reasoning
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 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-4.5 Preview at #1 in General LLM
- GPT-4.5 Preview at #1 in Long context
- Sora 2 at #1 in Video generation

## Benchmarks