Not every model trains on the same data. Each one leads its own category. Berkeley’s LMArena lets you compare models side by side and casts votes on a public leaderboard.

The leaders in December 2025:

• Text: Gemini 3 Pro
• Coding: Claude Opus 4.5
• Text-to-image: GPT Image 1.5

I asked Claude and Gemini for a title for this post. Gemini was thorough: three options across three angles, with a recommendation. Claude gave me half as many and no reasoning.

Claude’s suggestion was “Are You Using the Wrong AI?”. Gemini’s is the title that kept you reading.