Artificial Analysis

Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model it says delivers significant gains in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. Google claims Carbon tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.

AI Models • The Verge AI

Artificial Analysis launched Intelligence Index v5, adding two new coding and science benchmarks and three upgrades, with most of the index now built on private datasets. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at a score of 58, according to the organization.

AI Research • Techmeme

ElevenLabs released two new speech-to-speech models designed for real-time AI conversations. The v1 Max variant reportedly scores 98.8 percent on the Big Bench Audio benchmark with a 0.57-second response time, which ElevenLabs says no faster model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard has matched.

Models • The Decoder