Free AI models this week: 31 Aug 2026 – 6 Sept 2026

This report is generated automatically from the public Arena leaderboard history. It covers open-weight models only.

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New free models this week:

• granite-4.2-30b: score 1363, #69 among free models
• granite-4.2-8b: score 1318, #93 among free models
• granite-4.2-3b: score 1299, #99 among free models

Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:

• glm-4.6 up 2 to #14 (score 1440)
• glm-5.3-flash up 1 to #3 (score 1471)
• glm-5.2-max down 1 to #4 (score 1467)

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Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:

• qwen3.8-flash-next up 1 to #2 (score 1626)
• hy4-preview down 1 to #3 (score 1621)
• kimi-k2.6 up 1 to #11 (score 1509)

Best free model in each category