# AI leaderboard changes January 2026

As of Jan 29, 2026, 5 confirmed crown changes are recorded for January 2026.

## Confirmed crown changes

- Jan 29, 2026. Long context: Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jan 29, 2026. Coding › Web dev: GLM 4.7 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jan 9, 2026. Image edit: Qwen Image Edit 2511 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jan 9, 2026. Image edit: Qwen Image Edit 2511 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jan 9, 2026. Coding › Web dev: GLM 4.7 and Minimax M2 1 Preview are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.

## Top 3

- Claude Opus 4.5 at #1 in Long context
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 at #1 in Long context
- Gemini 3 Pro at #1 in Long context
- Qwen Image Edit 2511 at #1 in Image edit

## Benchmarks