The substantial gap between current Chatbot Arena leaders at roughly 1505–1510 Elo and the 1550 threshold drives the 72% market-implied probability that no company’s model reaches it in 2026. Anthropic holds the slight edge at 18.5% odds thanks to recent releases such as Claude Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 variants that topped the leaderboard in coding and reasoning benchmarks, while OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 series and Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro sit close behind near 1506 and 1505. Steady incremental gains from early-2026 launches have narrowed the distance modestly, yet trader consensus reflects realistic timelines for further jumps amid competitive pressure and typical model improvement rates before year-end.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · UpdatedNone in 2026 72%
Anthropic 19%
OpenAI 6.5%
Google 6.2%
$79,699 Vol.
$79,699 Vol.

None in 2026
72%

Anthropic
19%

OpenAI
7%

6%

xAI
1%

Mistral
<1%

DeepSeek
<1%

Alibaba
<1%

Z.ai
<1%
None in 2026 72%
Anthropic 19%
OpenAI 6.5%
Google 6.2%
$79,699 Vol.
$79,699 Vol.

None in 2026
72%

Anthropic
19%

OpenAI
7%

6%

xAI
1%

Mistral
<1%

DeepSeek
<1%

Alibaba
<1%

Z.ai
<1%
Results from the "Text Arena" section on the leaderboard/text tab of https://lmarena.ai/ with the style control unchecked (https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/overall-no-style-control) will be used to resolve this market.
If no company's model reaches 1550+ Arena Score by the specified time, this market will resolve to "None in 2026".
If the first model to reach a 1550+ Arena Score belongs to any company other than the listed ones, this market will be resolved to "Other".
The resolution source for this market is the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard found at https://lmarena.ai/. If this resolution source becomes unavailable, the market will remain open until it is accessible again. If it becomes permanently unavailable, resolution will be based on another credible source.
Market Opened: Feb 13, 2026, 4:42 PM ET
Resolver
0x2F5e3684c...Results from the "Text Arena" section on the leaderboard/text tab of https://lmarena.ai/ with the style control unchecked (https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/overall-no-style-control) will be used to resolve this market.
If no company's model reaches 1550+ Arena Score by the specified time, this market will resolve to "None in 2026".
If the first model to reach a 1550+ Arena Score belongs to any company other than the listed ones, this market will be resolved to "Other".
The resolution source for this market is the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard found at https://lmarena.ai/. If this resolution source becomes unavailable, the market will remain open until it is accessible again. If it becomes permanently unavailable, resolution will be based on another credible source.
Resolver
0x2F5e3684c...The substantial gap between current Chatbot Arena leaders at roughly 1505–1510 Elo and the 1550 threshold drives the 72% market-implied probability that no company’s model reaches it in 2026. Anthropic holds the slight edge at 18.5% odds thanks to recent releases such as Claude Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 variants that topped the leaderboard in coding and reasoning benchmarks, while OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 series and Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro sit close behind near 1506 and 1505. Steady incremental gains from early-2026 launches have narrowed the distance modestly, yet trader consensus reflects realistic timelines for further jumps amid competitive pressure and typical model improvement rates before year-end.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · Updated

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