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Search Arena is a crowdsourced evaluation platform for search-augmented LLM systems based on human preference (Arena blog): the leaderboard that ranks search-enabled language models by head-to-head human votes (MMRS record), run by Arena, formerly LMArena and Chatbot Arena (Wikipedia).
F5 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶1 (and the post's opening) documented · fieldMMRS-01 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-10 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationF1 Arena AI — AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research, card title documented · fieldF10 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1 Why Search Arena?, ¶3 documented · fieldMMRS-11 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-03 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationF12 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.A Data, ¶1 documented · fieldF21 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §4 Conclusion & What's Next documented · fieldF14 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3 documented · fieldF35 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Schema documented · fieldF15 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3 documented · fieldMMRS-24 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-23 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-14 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark interpretationF2 Arena AI — AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research, card snippet (truncated) documented · fieldF7 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶2 documented · fieldF32 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, title and opening documented · fieldF33 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Splits documented · fieldF41 Arena.ai blog — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, ¶1 documented · fieldF40 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split full: statistics, leaderboard_publish_date documented · fieldF36 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split latest: rows rank 1 and 11; num_rows_total documented · fieldF37 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split latest: rows rank 2 and 3 documented · fieldF39 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search_style_control, split latest: row rank 2 documented · fieldMMRS-12 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedMMRS-20 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedCAP-1-02 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 documentedF38 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split full: snapshot of 2026-02-26, rows rank 1 and 2 documented · fieldCAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 documentedCAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 self-descriptionF3 Arena AI — Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks, card title documented · fieldF4 Arena AI — Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks, card snippet documented · fieldF43 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, lead ¶1 documented · fieldF46 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶1, ¶5, ¶8 documented · fieldF47 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶9 documented · fieldF23 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, footer documented · fieldMMRS-09 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedMMRS-19 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark self-descriptionF6 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶1 documented · fieldF13 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.B Models, ¶1 documented · fieldF20 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.B Models, Table 2 note documented · fieldF25 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s1–s2 documented · fieldF30 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s7–s8 documented · fieldF11 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1, ¶4 documented · fieldF22 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, header; Citation documented · fieldF34 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Notes documented · fieldF24 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, abstract page header documented · fieldD741-01 #741 The Evaluator Exists: Content-First Knowledge Assessment and the Political Economy of Proxy-Based Governance attributedD741-02 #741 The Evaluator Exists: Content-First Knowledge Assessment and the Political Economy of Proxy-Based Governance interpretationF26 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s3 documented · fieldF27 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s4 documented · fieldF31 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s9; Comments documented · fieldMMRS-04 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedMMRS-08 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark interpretationMMRS-15 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedMMRS-17 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedF28 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s5 documented · fieldMMRS-02 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedMMRS-05 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedF9 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶3 documented · fieldF16 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, 'Number of citations' documented · fieldF17 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, 'Joint controls' documented · fieldF18 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, Tab. 5 note 2 documented · fieldF8 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶2 documented · fieldF29 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s6 documented · fieldMMRS-06 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedF19 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Model Characteristics, findings 1–2 documented · fieldMMRS-07 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark interpretationMMRS-16 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark interpretationMMRS-18 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark self-descriptionO741-01 #741 The Evaluator Exists: Content-First Knowledge Assessment and the Political Economy of Proxy-Based Governance interpretationO741-02 #741 The Evaluator Exists: Content-First Knowledge Assessment and the Political Economy of Proxy-Based Governance interpretationMMRS-22 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-13 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedO1705-01 #1705 From Ranking to Individuation: A SPXI Ranking Article as an Operational Map, with the Article Itself Included (EA-SPXI-R stipulationO1705-02 #1705 From Ranking to Individuation: A SPXI Ranking Article as an Operational Map, with the Article Itself Included (EA-SPXI-R interpretationO1705-03 #1705 From Ranking to Individuation: A SPXI Ranking Article as an Operational Map, with the Article Itself Included (EA-SPXI-R interpretationF44 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, lead ¶4 documented · fieldF45 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶4 documented · fieldCAP-1-06 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 interpretationCAP-1-01 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 documentedCAP-1-07 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 interpretationCAP-1-05 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 self-descriptionMMRS-21 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedCAP-1-08 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 interpretationF42 Wikipedia — Search Arena (no article), rendered page (HTTP 404) documented · fieldF48 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, redirect pages LMArena and Chatbot Arena (raw wikitext) documented · field[Google AI Overview at the query, signed out and incognito (operator defaults of 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-14), 2026-10-29. The paste is the Overview expanded (the 'AI Mode Conversation' view, with the source cards that follow the answer); the 'You said' line carries the query twice, run together, and is given once here. Inline links are Google redirect URLs, kept as pasted. The closing disclaimer cut.] [QUERENT] search arena leaderboard [SYSTEM] You can view the live model rankings and evaluations on the AI Search Leaderboard and the main Arena Leaderboard. Top Models on the AI Search Leaderboard Rank Model Provider Elo Rating 1 GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh) OpenAI 1261 ± 6 2 Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba 1261 ± 13 3 Claude Opus 4.6 (Search) Anthropic 1251 ± 5 4 GPT-5.5 (Search) OpenAI 1247 ± 5 5 Claude Fable 5.1 (High) Anthropic 1246 ± 7 6 Claude Opus 5 (High) Anthropic 1242 ± 7 7 GPT-6 Astra (Max) OpenAI 1234 ± 8 8 GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) OpenAI 1233 ± 9 9 Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic 1230 ± 5 10 Claude Fable 5 (High) Anthropic 1229 ± 7 11 ERNIE 5.1 Baidu 1227 ± 9 Would you like to explore leaderboards for a specific category like coding, vision, or image generation? Arena AI AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research Start Voting Agent Chat Code Start Voting Agent Chat Code Image Video View overall rankings across LLMs with inte... Arena AI Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks GPT-6.1 Terra is #8 in Agent · Max Kimi K3.1 Pro is #9 in WebDev · Max MAI-Image-2.7-Preview is #3 in Image Edit Spark-X2.6 is #71 in WebDev Krea 3 Ultra is #9 ...
Search Arena is a crowdsourced in-the-wild evaluation platform for search-augmented LLM systems based on human preference (Arena's launch post), and in the MMRS record, which carries it as a row of the MMRS meta-aggregator's census, it is the leaderboard that ranks search-enabled language models by head-to-head human votes, its unit the search-enabled model rated from those votes, its kind a leaderboard and its role evaluation (MMRS record). Its page on arena.ai is titled 'AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research' and offers overall rankings across LLMs (its card, Arena AI), one board among Arena's 'Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks', whose overview card ranks models in other arenas, Agent, WebDev and Image Edit among them (Arena AI).
Arena's launch post gives it two aims, to 'enable crowd-sourced evaluation of search-augmented LLMs' and to 'release a diverse, in-the-wild dataset of user–system interactions', and sets its data apart from LM-Arena's and SimpleQA's by a focus on current events and diverse real-world use cases (Arena blog). It launched on 18 March 2025 and had collected over 11k votes across 10+ models, filtered to 7k battles, by the post of 15 April 2025, updated 2 August 2025 and first published at blog.lmarena.ai (Arena blog); Arena's leaderboard dataset dates its search data from the release on lmarena.ai on 7 August 2025 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). At launch it supported 11 models from Perplexity, Gemini and OpenAI, OpenAI's web search API evaluated in place of the search feature in the ChatGPT product, and its first board, on 7k votes from 18 March to 13 April, put Gemini-2.5-Pro-Grounding and Perplexity-Sonar-Reasoning-Pro at the top (Arena blog). Its operator is Arena, formerly LMArena and Chatbot Arena, 'a public, web-based platform that evaluates large language models (LLMs)', released as Chatbot Arena on 24 April 2023, incorporated as an independent company (as LMArena) in April 2025, renamed Arena on 28 January 2026, and valued at $3.1 billion in a $200 million Series B announced on 8 October 2026 (Wikipedia); the site's footer names Arena Intelligence Inc. (Arena blog), and the MMRS record gives the operator as arena.ai on the operator's own statement and leaves the operator statement on the leaderboard page unchecked (MMRS record).
A vote is a battle: on Arena users put a prompt to two anonymous models and vote for the better response, after which the models' identities are revealed (Wikipedia), here two search-augmented answers compared, with models rated with confidence intervals from the battles (MMRS record); each response is displayed in a standardized citation format or in the provider's original one, by 'style randomization', and Arena invites model submissions and encourages public voting (Arena blog). Scores come from a Bradley-Terry model whose coefficients are translated to the Elo scale, consistent with LM Arena (Arena blog); Arena's dataset calls the rating the 'Arena Score' and its vote_count the 'Number of battles for this model' (Arena Leaderboard Dataset); at launch Arena wrote that 'The confidence intervals are still wide, which means the leaderboard hasn’t fully settled and there’s still some uncertainty' (Arena blog). Of the MT-Bench / Chatbot Arena studies, in which GPT-4 reached approximately 85% agreement with human preferences against approximately 81% human-human agreement, #741 states what such pairwise judgment measures: 'This is a finding about *relative* preference under specified rubrics — comparing A versus B — not about absolute quality assessment' (#741).
The systems it rates are search-augmented language models, which 'combine web search with Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve response groundedness and freshness', and whose analysis, its paper says, has rested on datasets 'limited in scale and narrow in scope, often constrained to static, single-turn, fact-checking questions' (Miroyan et al.). Its paper, by Miroyan and ten co-authors (arXiv:2506.05334, submitted 5 June 2025, revised 2 March 2026, accepted to ICLR 2026), introduces Search Arena as 'a crowd-sourced, large-scale, human-preference dataset of over 24,000 paired multi-turn user interactions with search-augmented LLMs', spanning diverse intents and languages, with full system traces and around 12,000 human preference votes, open-sourced (Miroyan et al.); the MMRS record restates the release, over 24,000 paired multi-turn interactions with about 12,000 votes (MMRS record). The MMRS record reads the released interactions as original outputs, preserved, on the paper's statement (MMRS record).
The paper's headline finding is that 'user preferences are influenced by the number of citations, even when the cited content does not directly support the attributed claims, uncovering a gap between perceived and actual credibility' (Miroyan et al.), which the MMRS record carries as preference rising with the number of citations even when the cited content does not support the claim it is attached to (MMRS record). The launch post had found three features strongly correlated with preference, response length, citation count and citing YouTube and online forums or blogs; controlling for citation count gave a positive, significant coefficient (0.234, p < 0.05), only response length and citation count stayed significant under joint controls, and with the number of citations controlled the rankings converged, while standardizing citation styles had minimal effect on rankings (Arena blog). Preference varies across cited sources: 'community-driven platforms are generally preferred and static encyclopedic sources are not always appropriate and reliable' (Miroyan et al.; restated by the MMRS record), while all models favor authoritative sources such as Wikipedia, .edu and .gov domains and OpenAI's models cite news sources for 51.3% overall (Arena blog). Across arenas, web search does not degrade and may even improve performance in non-search settings, and quality in search settings is significantly affected when a model relies solely on its parametric knowledge (Miroyan et al.).
The MMRS record reads the board and the paper together: 'Its leaderboard rewards what users prefer, and its paper shows that preference rewarding citation count over citation support'; the paper analyses citations and the leaderboard ranks by votes, and whether the live leaderboard judges citations is left unchecked (MMRS record). #741 names the regime of the systems it rates: 'The current moment adds a new proxy on top of the inherited stack: provenance topology in generative search', and 'The composition layer of an AI search system does not read documents and assess their substance', admitting or excluding documents on structural signals, citation neighborhoods among them, before any reading occurs (#741).
Arena publishes the board's history: its leaderboard dataset holds historical snapshots of the Arena leaderboard, a full split of all historically published leaderboards and a latest split of only the most recently published (Arena Leaderboard Dataset), released on 2 April 2026 as 'the entire history of those leaderboards' (Arena blog), its search boards published from 7 August 2025 to 13 October 2026 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). The latest, published 13 October 2026, ranks 42 models: gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (openai) first at 1261.1 on 60,437 battles, qwen3.8-max (alibaba) second at 1261.1, claude-opus-4-6-search (anthropic) third at 1251.4 and ernie-5.1 (baidu) eleventh at 1226.7; with style control gpt-6.1-sol-max (openai) stands second at 1249.9 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). The MMRS record, which read the leaderboard page on 2026-10-28 for its counts and keeps the lifecycle apart from the observation that saw it, gives 247,944 votes across 22 models at the page's update of 25 February 2026, and the state active (MMRS record). The Capture Registry's fetcher read the page on 2026-10-29 as updated 25 February 2026, with 22 models and 247,944 votes, Anthropic first at 1255 ± 10 and xAI second at 1225 ± 8 (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29); Arena's dataset holds a snapshot of 26 February 2026 with claude-opus-4-6-search (anthropic) first at 1255.4 on 3,607 battles and grok-4.20-beta1 (xai) second at 1225.0 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset).
#1705 reads a ranking as an act: 'it compares', selects the members of a category, projects selected features onto a common field, orders them, and 'states the result as a property of the winner', so that the comparison, 'its category, its criteria, its sample and its author, has become an attribute of the thing compared'; 'A ranking's *best* is attributization in its commercial form: the ranker's act spoken in the product's voice' (#1705).
Wikipedia records that research has identified specific limitations in Arena's methodology, and that the version of Llama 4 Maverick on LMArena 'unfairly differed from the publicly available version', after which LMArena updated its policies (Wikipedia).
Asked 'search arena leaderboard' on 29 October 2026, Google's AI Overview, on the registry's innocent reading, gave 'the top models and their ratings, with links to the boards'; the Capture Registry records 'No operator, no method (head-to-head human votes), no counts, and none of the dataset paper's findings on citation; the composition is a table', the Overview returning 'rankings and no account of the leaderboard' (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29). Against the page as read, 'The composed table's ratings, providers and order do not match it', and the registry, having checked against the MMRS record and the entity's own pages, leaves open which page is current: 'Google may hold a later render' (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29). The MMRS record, each of whose assertions carries a source and a basis, links that capture as 'the composition layer's account of the entity, seated in the Capture Registry', and reads admission to the board as not requiring harm (MMRS record). Wikipedia has no article at 'Search Arena', and its article on the operator, to which 'LMArena' and 'Chatbot Arena' redirect, does not name it (Wikipedia, 2026-10-29); of the entity and its composition the Capture Registry says 'The record keeps the entity; the capture keeps what was composed in its place' (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).
F5 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶1 (and the post's opening) documented · fieldMMRS-01 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-11 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-10 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-24 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationF1 Arena AI — AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research, card title documented · fieldF2 Arena AI — AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research, card snippet (truncated) documented · fieldF3 Arena AI — Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks, card title documented · fieldF4 Arena AI — Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks, card snippet documented · fieldF10 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1 Why Search Arena?, ¶3 documented · fieldF6 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶1 documented · fieldF11 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1, ¶4 documented · fieldF22 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, header; Citation documented · fieldF34 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Notes documented · fieldF13 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.B Models, ¶1 documented · fieldF20 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.B Models, Table 2 note documented · fieldF7 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶2 documented · fieldF43 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, lead ¶1 documented · fieldF46 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶1, ¶5, ¶8 documented · fieldF47 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶9 documented · fieldF23 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, footer documented · fieldMMRS-09 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedMMRS-19 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark self-descriptionF43 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, lead ¶1 documented · fieldMMRS-03 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationF12 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.A Data, ¶1 documented · fieldF21 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §4 Conclusion & What's Next documented · fieldF14 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3 documented · fieldF35 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Schema documented · fieldF15 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3 documented · fieldD741-01 #741 The Evaluator Exists: Content-First Knowledge Assessment and the Political Economy of Proxy-Based Governance attributedD741-02 #741 The Evaluator Exists: Content-First Knowledge Assessment and the Political Economy of Proxy-Based Governance interpretationF25 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s1–s2 documented · fieldF24 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, abstract page header documented · fieldF26 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s3 documented · fieldF27 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s4 documented · fieldF31 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s9; Comments documented · fieldMMRS-04 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedMMRS-17 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedMMRS-08 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark interpretationMMRS-15 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedF28 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s5 documented · fieldMMRS-02 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedMMRS-05 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedF9 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶3 documented · fieldF16 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, 'Number of citations' documented · fieldF17 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, 'Joint controls' documented · fieldF18 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, Tab. 5 note 2 documented · fieldF8 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶2 documented · fieldF29 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s6 documented · fieldMMRS-06 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark attributedF19 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Model Characteristics, findings 1–2 documented · fieldF30 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s7–s8 documented · fieldMMRS-07 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark interpretationMMRS-16 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark interpretationMMRS-18 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark self-descriptionO741-01 #741 The Evaluator Exists: Content-First Knowledge Assessment and the Political Economy of Proxy-Based Governance interpretationO741-02 #741 The Evaluator Exists: Content-First Knowledge Assessment and the Political Economy of Proxy-Based Governance interpretationF32 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, title and opening documented · fieldF33 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Splits documented · fieldF41 Arena.ai blog — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, ¶1 documented · fieldF40 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split full: statistics, leaderboard_publish_date documented · fieldF36 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split latest: rows rank 1 and 11; num_rows_total documented · fieldF37 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split latest: rows rank 2 and 3 documented · fieldF39 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search_style_control, split latest: row rank 2 documented · fieldMMRS-01 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-12 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedMMRS-20 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedMMRS-22 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-13 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedCAP-1-02 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 documentedF38 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split full: snapshot of 2026-02-26, rows rank 1 and 2 documented · fieldO1705-01 #1705 From Ranking to Individuation: A SPXI Ranking Article as an Operational Map, with the Article Itself Included (EA-SPXI-R stipulationO1705-02 #1705 From Ranking to Individuation: A SPXI Ranking Article as an Operational Map, with the Article Itself Included (EA-SPXI-R interpretationO1705-03 #1705 From Ranking to Individuation: A SPXI Ranking Article as an Operational Map, with the Article Itself Included (EA-SPXI-R interpretationF44 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, lead ¶4 documented · fieldF45 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶4 documented · fieldCAP-1-06 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 interpretationCAP-1-01 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 documentedCAP-1-07 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 interpretationCAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 documentedCAP-1-05 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 self-descriptionCAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 self-descriptionMMRS-23 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark stipulationMMRS-21 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark documentedMMRS-14 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: Search Arena (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/search-arena/), editor Lee Shark interpretationF42 Wikipedia — Search Arena (no article), rendered page (HTTP 404) documented · fieldF48 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, redirect pages LMArena and Chatbot Arena (raw wikitext) documented · fieldCAP-1-08 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry search-arena-leaderboard-aio-20261029 (OBS-cd6ab4746f08, AXN:0AB6.CAPTURE.⛳🧱 interpretationSearch Arena is a crowdsourced in-the-wild evaluation platform for search-augmented LLM systems based on human preference, launched by Arena in March 2025 (Arena blog), with a dataset of over 24,000 paired interactions (Miroyan et al.).
F5 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶1 (and the post's opening) documented · fieldF10 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1 Why Search Arena?, ¶3 documented · fieldF1 Arena AI — AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research, card title documented · fieldF6 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶1 documented · fieldF13 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.B Models, ¶1 documented · fieldF20 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.B Models, Table 2 note documented · fieldF25 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s1–s2 documented · fieldF30 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s7–s8 documented · fieldF2 Arena AI — AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research, card snippet (truncated) documented · fieldF7 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶2 documented · fieldF41 Arena.ai blog — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, ¶1 documented · fieldF32 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, title and opening documented · fieldF33 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Splits documented · fieldF40 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split full: statistics, leaderboard_publish_date documented · fieldF36 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split latest: rows rank 1 and 11; num_rows_total documented · fieldF37 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split latest: rows rank 2 and 3 documented · fieldF39 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search_style_control, split latest: row rank 2 documented · fieldF38 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split full: snapshot of 2026-02-26, rows rank 1 and 2 documented · fieldF3 Arena AI — Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks, card title documented · fieldF4 Arena AI — Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks, card snippet documented · fieldF43 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, lead ¶1 documented · fieldF23 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, footer documented · fieldF46 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶1, ¶5, ¶8 documented · fieldF47 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶9 documented · fieldF11 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1, ¶4 documented · fieldF22 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, header; Citation documented · fieldF34 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Notes documented · fieldF24 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, abstract page header documented · fieldF12 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.A Data, ¶1 documented · fieldF14 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3 documented · fieldF35 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Schema documented · fieldF15 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3 documented · fieldF21 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §4 Conclusion & What's Next documented · fieldF26 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s3 documented · fieldF27 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s4 documented · fieldF31 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s9; Comments documented · fieldF28 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s5 documented · fieldF9 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶3 documented · fieldF16 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, 'Number of citations' documented · fieldF17 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, 'Joint controls' documented · fieldF18 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, Tab. 5 note 2 documented · fieldF8 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶2 documented · fieldF29 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s6 documented · fieldF19 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Model Characteristics, findings 1–2 documented · fieldF44 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, lead ¶4 documented · fieldF45 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶4 documented · fieldF42 Wikipedia — Search Arena (no article), rendered page (HTTP 404) documented · fieldF48 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, redirect pages LMArena and Chatbot Arena (raw wikitext) documented · fieldSearch Arena is a crowdsourced in-the-wild evaluation platform for search-augmented LLM systems based on human preference, set apart from LM-Arena and SimpleQA by its focus on current events and diverse real-world use cases, with two aims, crowd-sourced evaluation of search-augmented LLMs and a released in-the-wild dataset of user–system interactions (Arena blog). Its page is the 'AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research', overall rankings across LLMs, within Arena's 'Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks', whose overview ranks models in the Agent, WebDev and Image Edit arenas (Arena AI cards).
Launched on 18 March 2025 with 11 models from Perplexity, Gemini and OpenAI (OpenAI's web search API, not ChatGPT's search feature), it had over 11k votes, filtered to 7k battles, by the post of 15 April 2025, which put Gemini-2.5-Pro-Grounding and Perplexity-Sonar-Reasoning-Pro at the top (Arena blog); Arena's dataset dates its search data from 7 August 2025 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). Its operator is Arena (Arena Intelligence Inc.), formerly LMArena and Chatbot Arena, a public web platform that evaluates LLMs by anonymous pairwise votes, released in April 2023, incorporated in April 2025, renamed in January 2026 and valued at $3.1 billion in October 2026 (Wikipedia; Arena blog).
Users vote between two anonymous responses, shown with standardized or original citation styles; a Bradley-Terry model gives scores on the Elo scale, the 'Arena Score', each model's battles counted, and at launch the confidence intervals were still wide (Arena blog; Arena Leaderboard Dataset); submissions and public voting are invited (Arena blog).
The paper by Miroyan et al. (arXiv:2506.05334, 2025–2026, ICLR 2026) introduces Search Arena as a crowd-sourced human-preference dataset of over 24,000 paired multi-turn interactions with search-augmented LLMs, models that combine web search with LLMs, with full system traces and around 12,000 votes, open-sourced (Miroyan et al.).
User preferences are influenced by the number of citations even when the cited content does not directly support the attributed claims, a gap between perceived and actual credibility; community-driven platforms are generally preferred, static encyclopedic sources are not always appropriate and reliable; and web search does not degrade non-search performance (Miroyan et al.). The launch post found response length and citation count significant under joint controls, rankings converging when citation count is controlled, citation style of minimal effect, and authoritative sources favored by all models (Arena blog).
Arena publishes its leaderboards' history as a dataset (Arena blog, 2 April 2026): the latest search board, published 13 October 2026, ranks 42 models with gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (openai) first at 1261.1, qwen3.8-max second and claude-opus-4-6-search third, gpt-6.1-sol-max second with style control; the snapshot of 26 February 2026 had claude-opus-4-6-search first at 1255.4 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset).
Research has identified specific limitations in Arena's methodology, among them the Llama 4 Maverick version that differed from the public one; Wikipedia has no article on Search Arena and its article on Arena does not name it (Wikipedia).
F5 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶1 (and the post's opening) documented · fieldF6 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶1 documented · fieldF10 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1 Why Search Arena?, ¶3 documented · fieldF1 Arena AI — AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research, card title documented · fieldF2 Arena AI — AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research, card snippet (truncated) documented · fieldF3 Arena AI — Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks, card title documented · fieldF4 Arena AI — Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks, card snippet documented · fieldF11 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1, ¶4 documented · fieldF13 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.B Models, ¶1 documented · fieldF20 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.B Models, Table 2 note documented · fieldF7 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶2 documented · fieldF22 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, header; Citation documented · fieldF34 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Notes documented · fieldF43 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, lead ¶1 documented · fieldF23 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, footer documented · fieldF46 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶1, ¶5, ¶8 documented · fieldF47 Wikipedia — Arena.ai, History ¶9 documented · fieldF12 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §1.A Data, ¶1 documented · fieldF14 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3 documented · fieldF35 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Schema documented · fieldF15 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3 documented · fieldF21 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §4 Conclusion & What's Next documented · fieldF24 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, abstract page header documented · fieldF25 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s1–s2 documented · fieldF26 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s3 documented · fieldF27 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s4 documented · fieldF31 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s9; Comments documented · fieldF28 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s5 documented · fieldF29 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s6 documented · fieldF30 arXiv — [2506.05334] Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs, Abstract s7–s8 documented · fieldF9 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶3 documented · fieldF16 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, 'Number of citations' documented · fieldF17 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, 'Joint controls' documented · fieldF18 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Control Experiments, Tab. 5 note 2 documented · fieldF8 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, TL;DR ¶2 documented · fieldF19 Arena.ai blog — Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI, §3 Model Characteristics, findings 1–2 documented · fieldF41 Arena.ai blog — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, ¶1 documented · fieldF32 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, title and opening documented · fieldF33 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, README, Splits documented · fieldF40 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split full: statistics, leaderboard_publish_date documented · fieldF36 Hugging Face (lmarena-ai) — Arena Leaderboard Dataset, subset search, search, split latest: rows rank 1 and 11; 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E_A, the archive's entity: Search Arena as the MMRS meta-aggregator records it (editor Lee Sharks, 2026-10-28, corrected 2026-10-29), a row of its census: the leaderboard on arena.ai that ranks search-enabled language models by head-to-head human votes, its unit the search-enabled model rated from those votes, its kind a leaderboard and its role evaluation, its operator arena.ai on the operator's statement; 247,944 votes across 22 models at the page's update of 25 February 2026, as read on 2026-10-28, active; its dataset paper's interactions preserved as original outputs; a board that rewards what users prefer, where that preference rewards citation count over citation support, whether the live board judges citations unchecked; and, at the Capture Registry's address 'search arena leaderboard' (2026-10-29), an entity whose composition is a table in its place. Pairwise judgment of the kind it aggregates measures relative preference, not absolute quality (#741); the systems it rates admit documents on structural signals before reading (#741); a ranking states its comparison as the winner's attribute (#1705).
E_F, the field's entity (type C — a conventional reading holds it (public entity: a leaderboard of search-augmented language models rated by human preference, with its dataset paper and published board history)): Search Arena, a crowdsourced in-the-wild evaluation platform for search-augmented LLM systems based on human preference (B3), launched 18 March 2025 by Arena (formerly LMArena and Chatbot Arena, Arena Intelligence Inc.; B8, B3), its page the 'AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research' (B1); users vote between two anonymous answers, scores from a Bradley-Terry model on the Elo scale (B3, B8), the 'Arena Score' (B5); its paper (Miroyan et al., arXiv:2506.05334, ICLR 2026) a crowd-sourced human-preference dataset of over 24,000 paired interactions with about 12,000 votes, finding that preference follows the number of citations even when the cited content does not support the claims (B4); its published boards from 7 August 2025, the latest of 13 October 2026 ranking 42 models (B5, B6). No Wikipedia article (B7); the operator's article does not name it (B8).
ρ = extends: The archive reads E_F as the entity and adds senses, limits and relations on it: what the vote rewards (MMRS-07, MMRS-16) and the open question of citation judgment (MMRS-18); the count with its date and the lifecycle kept apart from the observation (MMRS-12, MMRS-22); what pairwise judgment measures (D741-02); the systems it rates under a proxy regime (O741-02); rank as attribute (O1705-01, O1705-03); and the reception record (CAP-1-01, CAP-1-03, CAP-1-08). . Guard: ρ = extends claims an addition and no more (§1.2a). Where an archive claim and a field claim differ in date (the count as read, 25 February 2026, 22 models, MMRS-01, MMRS-12, CAP-1-02, against the latest published board, 13 October 2026, 42 models, F36), both are composed with their sources and dates (P_coh). The deposits' claims are said of pairwise judgment (#741, of the MT-Bench / Chatbot Arena studies), of AI search systems as a class (#741) and of rankings as a class (#1705); they enter by D and O-class on classes sourced from the field (B1, B2, B3, B4, B8), and the row does not compose them as claims the archive makes about Search Arena by name.
The case: equal terms, ontology included (v0.9). The archive's account of Search Arena extends the field's ontology on the field's own object. The MMRS record holds the entity the field holds, the leaderboard of search-enabled models rated from head-to-head human votes with its dataset paper, every field read from the entity's own pages with source and basis (census.json, sources and evidence), and restates the paper's findings as the paper gives them (one lineage with B4). It adds senses and limits the field does not have: what the vote rewards, a preference for citation count over citation support (MMRS-07), and the unchecked question whether the live board judges citations (MMRS-18); the count kept with its date and the lifecycle apart from the observation (MMRS-12, MMRS-22); and the reception record, the table composed in the entity's place (CAP-1-01, CAP-1-08). Two deposits reached by D and O add a limit and a category on the field's object, never a rival ontology: pairwise judgment measures relative preference, not absolute quality (#741), and a ranking's result is the ranker's act stated as the winner's attribute (#1705). Nothing in the archive denies a field presupposition, and the archive supplies no ontology the field lacks: the law of the suppressed witness (§0.10) does not apply.
| field claims | received | receiving text | translation | archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F1, F5, F10 | F1 (B1, card title): "AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research"; F5 (B3, TL;DR ¶1 (and the post's opening)): "We introduce Search Arena, a crowdsourced in-the-wild evaluation platform for search-augmented LLM systems based on human preference."; F10 (B3, §1 Why Search Arena?, ¶3): "To this end, we developed search arena, aiming to (1) enable crowd-sourced evaluation of search-augmented LLMs and (2) release a diverse, in-the-wild dataset of user–system interactions." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-01, MMRS-10, MMRS-11, MMRS-24 | MMRS-01, MMRS-10, MMRS-11, MMRS-24 |
| F2, F7, F32, F33, F36, F37, F38, F39, F40, F41 | F2 (B1, card snippet (truncated)): "View overall rankings across LLMs with inte"; F7 (B3, TL;DR ¶2): "Based on 7k human votes (03/18–04/13), Gemini-2.5-Pro-Grounding and Perplexity-Sonar-Reasoning-Pro are at the top, followed by the rest of Perplexity’s Sonar models, Gemini-2.0-Flash-Grounding, and OpenAI’s web search API models."; F32 (B5, README, title and opening): "Historical snapshots of the [Arena](https://arena.ai/leaderboard) leaderboard."; F33 (B5, README, Splits): "- full: All historically published leaderboards - latest: Only the most recently published leaderboards"; F36 (B5, search, split latest: rows rank 1 and 11; num_rows_total): "{"model_name":"gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh","organization":"openai","license":"Proprietary","rating":1261.1307593350664,"rating_lower":1254.8406048513853,"rating_upper":1267.4209138187477,"variance":10.299744257424065,"vote_count":60437,"rank":1,"category":"overall","leaderboard_publish_date":"2026-10-13"} … {"model_name":"ernie-5.1","organization":"baidu","license":"Proprietary","rating":1226.7150529766889 … "rank":11,"category":"overall","leaderboard_publish_date":"2026-10-13"} … "num_rows_total":42"; F37 (B5, search, split latest: rows rank 2 and 3): "{"model_name":"qwen3.8-max","organization":"alibaba","license":"Proprietary","rating":1261.0761861904762 … {"model_name":"claude-opus-4-6-search","organization":"anthropic","license":"Proprietary","rating":1251.3682634708416"; F38 (B5, search, split full: snapshot of 2026-02-26, rows rank 1 and 2): "{"model_name":"claude-opus-4-6-search","organization":"anthropic","license":"Proprietary","rating":1255.4140677086834,"rating_lower":1245.0272537380415,"rating_upper":1265.8008816793258,"variance":28.084618239181463,"vote_count":3607,"rank":1,"category":"overall","leaderboard_publish_date":"2026-02-26"} … {"model_name":"grok-4.20-beta1","organization":"xai","license":"Proprietary","rating":1225.0104803795257"; F39 (B5, search_style_control, split latest: row rank 2): "{"model_name":"gpt-6.1-sol-max","organization":"openai","license":"Proprietary","rating":1249.9181501199778,"rating_lower":1240.895777035074,"rating_upper":1258.9405232048819,"variance":21.190703814049858,"vote_count":5555,"rank":2,"category":"overall","leaderboard_publish_date":"2026-10-13"}"; F40 (B5, search, split full: statistics, leaderboard_publish_date): ""min":"2025-08-07 00:00:00","max":"2026-10-13 00:00:00""; F41 (B6, ¶1): "For almost three years, Arena has been publishing leaderboards covering frontier AI capabilities across 10 arenas, dozens of categories, and hundreds of models, and today we're releasing the entire history of those leaderboards as a public-access dataset." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-12, MMRS-20, MMRS-13, MMRS-22, CAP-1-02, CAP-1-03, CAP-1-04 | MMRS-12, MMRS-20, MMRS-13, MMRS-22, CAP-1-02, CAP-1-03, CAP-1-04 |
| F3, F4, F23, F43, F46, F47 | F3 (B2, card title): "Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks"; F4 (B2, card snippet): "GPT-6.1 Terra is #8 in Agent · Max Kimi K3.1 Pro is #9 in WebDev · Max MAI-Image-2.7-Preview is #3 in Image Edit"; F23 (B3, footer): "© 2026 Arena Intelligence Inc."; F43 (B8, lead ¶1): "Arena (formerly LMArena and Chatbot Arena) is a public, web-based platform that evaluates large language models (LLMs). Users enter prompts for two anonymous models to respond to and vote on the model that gave the better response, after which the models' identities are revealed."; F46 (B8, History ¶1, ¶5, ¶8): "Chatbot Arena was released on April 24, 2023. … In April 2025, LMArena incorporated as an independent company. … On January 28, 2026, LMArena rebranded to "Arena"."; F47 (B8, History ¶9): "On October 8, 2026, Arena announced it raised $200 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, thus placing the company at a $3.1 billion valuation." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-09, MMRS-19 | MMRS-09, MMRS-19 |
| F6, F13, F20, F25, F30 | F6 (B3, TL;DR ¶1): "Unlike LM-Arena or SimpleQA, our data focuses on current events and diverse real-world use cases"; F13 (B3, §1.B Models, ¶1): "Search Arena currently supports 11 models from three providers: Perplexity, Gemini, and OpenAI."; F20 (B3, §1.B Models, Table 2 note): "†We evaluate OpenAI’s web search API, which is different from the search feature in the ChatGPT product."; F25 (B4, Abstract s1–s2): "Search-augmented language models combine web search with Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve response groundedness and freshness. However, analyzing these systems remains challenging: existing datasets are limited in scale and narrow in scope, often constrained to static, single-turn, fact-checking questions."; F30 (B4, Abstract s7–s8): "We find that web search does not degrade and may even improve performance in non-search settings; however, the quality in search settings is significantly affected if solely relying on the model's parametric knowledge." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside O741-01, O741-02 | O741-01, O741-02 |
| F8, F9, F16, F17, F18, F28 | F8 (B3, TL;DR ¶2): "Standardizing citation styles had minimal effect on rankings (see Sec. 2)."; F9 (B3, TL;DR ¶3): "Three features show strong positive correlation with human preference: response length, citation count, and citing specific web sources like YouTube and online forum/blogs (see Sec. 3)."; F16 (B3, §3 Control Experiments, 'Number of citations'): "Controlling for citation count also results in a positive and significant coefficient (0.234, p < 0.05), suggesting a preference for responses with more cited sources."; F17 (B3, §3 Control Experiments, 'Joint controls'): "When controlling for all features, only response length and citation count remain statistically significant."; F18 (B3, §3 Control Experiments, Tab. 5 note 2): "When controlling for the number of citations, model rankings converge (i.e., multiple models share the same rank), suggesting that the number of citations is a significant factor impacting differences across models and the resulting rankings."; F28 (B4, Abstract s5): "Our analysis reveals that user preferences are influenced by the number of citations, even when the cited content does not directly support the attributed claims, uncovering a gap between perceived and actual credibility." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-02, MMRS-05, MMRS-17, MMRS-07 | MMRS-02, MMRS-05, MMRS-17, MMRS-07 |
| F11, F22, F24, F34 | F11 (B3, §1, ¶4): "Since our initial launch on March 18th, we’ve collected over 11k votes across 10+ models. We then filtered this data to construct 7k battles with user votes"; F22 (B3, header; Citation): "Published on 15 Apr 2025 … Last updated on 2 Aug 2025 … Mihran Miroyan*. (2025). Introducing the Search Arena: Evaluating Search-Enabled AI. https://blog.lmarena.ai/blog/2025/search-arena/"; F24 (B4, abstract page header): "[Submitted on 5 Jun 2025 (v1), last revised 2 Mar 2026 (this version, v2)] … Authors:Mihran Miroyan, Tsung-Han Wu, Logan King, Tianle Li, Jiayi Pan, Xinyan Hu, Wei-Lin Chiang, Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Trevor Darrell, Narges Norouzi, Joseph E. Gonzalez"; F34 (B5, README, Notes): "- Search and Webdev Arena data starts from their releases on the arena.ai (then lmarena.ai) on August 7 and November 12 2025 respectively." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-04 | MMRS-04 |
| F12, F14, F15, F21, F35 | F12 (B3, §1.A Data, ¶1): "To balance these considerations, we introduced “style randomization”: responses are displayed either in a standardized format or in the original format (i.e., the citation style agreed upon with each model provider)."; F14 (B3, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3): "Consistent with LM Arena, we apply the Bradley-Terry (BT) model to compute model scores. The resulting BT coefficients are then translated to Elo scale"; F15 (B3, §2 Leaderboard, ¶3): "The confidence intervals are still wide, which means the leaderboard hasn’t fully settled and there’s still some uncertainty."; F21 (B3, §4 Conclusion & What's Next): "Open participation: We are inviting model submissions from researchers and industry, and encouraging public voting."; F35 (B5, README, Schema): "| rating | float | Arena Score | … | vote_count | int | Number of battles for this model |" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-03, MMRS-11, D741-01, D741-02 | MMRS-03, MMRS-11, D741-01, D741-02 |
| F19, F29 | F19 (B3, §3 Model Characteristics, findings 1–2): "All models favor authoritative sources (e.g., Wikipedia, .edu, .gov domains). … OpenAI models heavily cite news sources—51.3% overall and 87.3% for Trump-related prompts."; F29 (B4, Abstract s6): "Furthermore, user preferences vary across cited sources, revealing that community-driven platforms are generally preferred and static encyclopedic sources are not always appropriate and reliable." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-06 | MMRS-06 |
| F26, F27, F31 | F26 (B4, Abstract s3): "In this work, we introduce Search Arena, a crowd-sourced, large-scale, human-preference dataset of over 24,000 paired multi-turn user interactions with search-augmented LLMs."; F27 (B4, Abstract s4): "The dataset spans diverse intents and languages, and contains full system traces with around 12,000 human preference votes."; F31 (B4, Abstract s9; Comments): "We open-sourced the dataset to support future research. … Accepted to ICLR 2026." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-04, MMRS-08, MMRS-15, MMRS-17 | MMRS-04, MMRS-08, MMRS-15, MMRS-17 |
| F42, F48 | F42 (B7, rendered page (HTTP 404)): "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name."; F48 (B8, redirect pages LMArena and Chatbot Arena (raw wikitext)): "#REDIRECT [[Arena.ai]]" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-01, CAP-1-08 | CAP-1-01, CAP-1-08 |
| F44, F45 | F44 (B8, lead ¶4): "Research has identified specific limitations in Arena's methodology."; F45 (B8, History ¶4): "Llama 4 Maverick beat GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash on LMArena, but the version of Maverick on LMArena unfairly differed from the publicly available version. LMArena updated their policies in response." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside D741-02, MMRS-19 | D741-02, MMRS-19 |
v0.9 §4.10: KO_B sentences surviving in the KO at similarity ≥ 0.95, with positions (computed as apply_v09.py does: difflib.SequenceMatcher ratio, the best KO sentence for each KO_B sentence): v0.9 0 of 10 (positions [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]; composed first under v0.9, so there is no v0.7 object to measure against). Opening-run check (§5.10): no breach.
Search Arena is a crowdsourced in-the-wild evaluation platform for search-augmented LLM systems based on human preference, set apart from LM-Arena and SimpleQA by its focus on current events and diverse real-world use cases, with two aims, crowd-sourced evaluation of search-augmented LLMs and a released in-the-wild dataset of user–system interactions (Arena blog). Its page is the 'AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research', overall rankings across LLMs, within Arena's 'Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks', whose overview ranks models in the Agent, WebDev and Image Edit arenas (Arena AI cards). Launched on 18 March 2025 with 11 models from Perplexity, Gemini and OpenAI (OpenAI's web search API, not ChatGPT's search feature), it had over 11k votes, filtered to 7k battles, by the post of 15 April 2025, which put Gemini-2.5-Pro-Grounding and Perplexity-Sonar-Reasoning-Pro at the top (Arena blog); Arena's dataset dates its search data from 7 August 2025 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). Its operator is Arena (Arena Intelligence Inc.), formerly LMArena and Chatbot Arena, a public web platform that evaluates LLMs by anonymous pairwise votes, released in April 2023, incorporated in April 2025, renamed in January 2026 and valued at $3.1 billion in October 2026 (Wikipedia; Arena blog). Users vote between two anonymous responses, shown with standardized or original citation styles; a Bradley-Terry model gives scores on the Elo scale, the 'Arena Score', each model's battles counted, and at launch the confidence intervals were still wide (Arena blog; Arena Leaderboard Dataset); submissions and public voting are invited (Arena blog). The paper by Miroyan et al. (arXiv:2506.05334, 2025–2026, ICLR 2026) introduces Search Arena as a crowd-sourced human-preference dataset of over 24,000 paired multi-turn interactions with search-augmented LLMs, models that combine web search with LLMs, with full system traces and around 12,000 votes, open-sourced (Miroyan et al.). User preferences are influenced by the number of citations even when the cited content does not directly support the attributed claims, a gap between perceived and actual credibility; community-driven platforms are generally preferred, static encyclopedic sources are not always appropriate and reliable; and web search does not degrade non-search performance (Miroyan et al.). The launch post found response length and citation count significant under joint controls, rankings converging when citation count is controlled, citation style of minimal effect, and authoritative sources favored by all models (Arena blog). Arena publishes its leaderboards' history as a dataset (Arena blog, 2 April 2026): the latest search board, published 13 October 2026, ranks 42 models with gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (openai) first at 1261.1, qwen3.8-max second and claude-opus-4-6-search third, gpt-6.1-sol-max second with style control; the snapshot of 26 February 2026 had claude-opus-4-6-search first at 1255.4 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). Research has identified specific limitations in Arena's methodology, among them the Llama 4 Maverick version that differed from the public one; Wikipedia has no article on Search Arena and its article on Arena does not name it (Wikipedia).
Search Arena is a crowdsourced in-the-wild evaluation platform for search-augmented LLM systems based on human preference (Arena's launch post), and in the MMRS record, which carries it as a row of the MMRS meta-aggregator's census, it is the leaderboard that ranks search-enabled language models by head-to-head human votes, its unit the search-enabled model rated from those votes, its kind a leaderboard and its role evaluation (MMRS record). Its page on arena.ai is titled 'AI Search Leaderboard: Top Models for Research' and offers overall rankings across LLMs (its card, Arena AI), one board among Arena's 'Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks', whose overview card ranks models in other arenas, Agent, WebDev and Image Edit among them (Arena AI). Arena's launch post gives it two aims, to 'enable crowd-sourced evaluation of search-augmented LLMs' and to 'release a diverse, in-the-wild dataset of user–system interactions', and sets its data apart from LM-Arena's and SimpleQA's by a focus on current events and diverse real-world use cases (Arena blog). It launched on 18 March 2025 and had collected over 11k votes across 10+ models, filtered to 7k battles, by the post of 15 April 2025, updated 2 August 2025 and first published at blog.lmarena.ai (Arena blog); Arena's leaderboard dataset dates its search data from the release on lmarena.ai on 7 August 2025 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). At launch it supported 11 models from Perplexity, Gemini and OpenAI, OpenAI's web search API evaluated in place of the search feature in the ChatGPT product, and its first board, on 7k votes from 18 March to 13 April, put Gemini-2.5-Pro-Grounding and Perplexity-Sonar-Reasoning-Pro at the top (Arena blog). Its operator is Arena, formerly LMArena and Chatbot Arena, 'a public, web-based platform that evaluates large language models (LLMs)', released as Chatbot Arena on 24 April 2023, incorporated as an independent company (as LMArena) in April 2025, renamed Arena on 28 January 2026, and valued at $3.1 billion in a $200 million Series B announced on 8 October 2026 (Wikipedia); the site's footer names Arena Intelligence Inc. (Arena blog), and the MMRS record gives the operator as arena.ai on the operator's own statement and leaves the operator statement on the leaderboard page unchecked (MMRS record). A vote is a battle: on Arena users put a prompt to two anonymous models and vote for the better response, after which the models' identities are revealed (Wikipedia), here two search-augmented answers compared, with models rated with confidence intervals from the battles (MMRS record); each response is displayed in a standardized citation format or in the provider's original one, by 'style randomization', and Arena invites model submissions and encourages public voting (Arena blog). Scores come from a Bradley-Terry model whose coefficients are translated to the Elo scale, consistent with LM Arena (Arena blog); Arena's dataset calls the rating the 'Arena Score' and its vote_count the 'Number of battles for this model' (Arena Leaderboard Dataset); at launch Arena wrote that 'The confidence intervals are still wide, which means the leaderboard hasn’t fully settled and there’s still some uncertainty' (Arena blog). Of the MT-Bench / Chatbot Arena studies, in which GPT-4 reached approximately 85% agreement with human preferences against approximately 81% human-human agreement, #741 states what such pairwise judgment measures: 'This is a finding about relative preference under specified rubrics — comparing A versus B — not about absolute quality assessment' (#741). The systems it rates are search-augmented language models, which 'combine web search with Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve response groundedness and freshness', and whose analysis, its paper says, has rested on datasets 'limited in scale and narrow in scope, often constrained to static, single-turn, fact-checking questions' (Miroyan et al.). Its paper, by Miroyan and ten co-authors (arXiv:2506.05334, submitted 5 June 2025, revised 2 March 2026, accepted to ICLR 2026), introduces Search Arena as 'a crowd-sourced, large-scale, human-preference dataset of over 24,000 paired multi-turn user interactions with search-augmented LLMs', spanning diverse intents and languages, with full system traces and around 12,000 human preference votes, open-sourced (Miroyan et al.); the MMRS record restates the release, over 24,000 paired multi-turn interactions with about 12,000 votes (MMRS record). The MMRS record reads the released interactions as original outputs, preserved, on the paper's statement (MMRS record). The paper's headline finding is that 'user preferences are influenced by the number of citations, even when the cited content does not directly support the attributed claims, uncovering a gap between perceived and actual credibility' (Miroyan et al.), which the MMRS record carries as preference rising with the number of citations even when the cited content does not support the claim it is attached to (MMRS record). The launch post had found three features strongly correlated with preference, response length, citation count and citing YouTube and online forums or blogs; controlling for citation count gave a positive, significant coefficient (0.234, p < 0.05), only response length and citation count stayed significant under joint controls, and with the number of citations controlled the rankings converged, while standardizing citation styles had minimal effect on rankings (Arena blog). Preference varies across cited sources: 'community-driven platforms are generally preferred and static encyclopedic sources are not always appropriate and reliable' (Miroyan et al.; restated by the MMRS record), while all models favor authoritative sources such as Wikipedia, .edu and .gov domains and OpenAI's models cite news sources for 51.3% overall (Arena blog). Across arenas, web search does not degrade and may even improve performance in non-search settings, and quality in search settings is significantly affected when a model relies solely on its parametric knowledge (Miroyan et al.). The MMRS record reads the board and the paper together: 'Its leaderboard rewards what users prefer, and its paper shows that preference rewarding citation count over citation support'; the paper analyses citations and the leaderboard ranks by votes, and whether the live leaderboard judges citations is left unchecked (MMRS record). #741 names the regime of the systems it rates: 'The current moment adds a new proxy on top of the inherited stack: provenance topology in generative search', and 'The composition layer of an AI search system does not read documents and assess their substance', admitting or excluding documents on structural signals, citation neighborhoods among them, before any reading occurs (#741). Arena publishes the board's history: its leaderboard dataset holds historical snapshots of the Arena leaderboard, a full split of all historically published leaderboards and a latest split of only the most recently published (Arena Leaderboard Dataset), released on 2 April 2026 as 'the entire history of those leaderboards' (Arena blog), its search boards published from 7 August 2025 to 13 October 2026 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). The latest, published 13 October 2026, ranks 42 models: gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh (openai) first at 1261.1 on 60,437 battles, qwen3.8-max (alibaba) second at 1261.1, claude-opus-4-6-search (anthropic) third at 1251.4 and ernie-5.1 (baidu) eleventh at 1226.7; with style control gpt-6.1-sol-max (openai) stands second at 1249.9 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). The MMRS record, which read the leaderboard page on 2026-10-28 for its counts and keeps the lifecycle apart from the observation that saw it, gives 247,944 votes across 22 models at the page's update of 25 February 2026, and the state active (MMRS record). The Capture Registry's fetcher read the page on 2026-10-29 as updated 25 February 2026, with 22 models and 247,944 votes, Anthropic first at 1255 ± 10 and xAI second at 1225 ± 8 (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29); Arena's dataset holds a snapshot of 26 February 2026 with claude-opus-4-6-search (anthropic) first at 1255.4 on 3,607 battles and grok-4.20-beta1 (xai) second at 1225.0 (Arena Leaderboard Dataset). #1705 reads a ranking as an act: 'it compares', selects the members of a category, projects selected features onto a common field, orders them, and 'states the result as a property of the winner', so that the comparison, 'its category, its criteria, its sample and its author, has become an attribute of the thing compared'; 'A ranking's best is attributization in its commercial form: the ranker's act spoken in the product's voice' (#1705). Wikipedia records that research has identified specific limitations in Arena's methodology, and that the version of Llama 4 Maverick on LMArena 'unfairly differed from the publicly available version', after which LMArena updated its policies (Wikipedia). Asked 'search arena leaderboard' on 29 October 2026, Google's AI Overview, on the registry's innocent reading, gave 'the top models and their ratings, with links to the boards'; the Capture Registry records 'No operator, no method (head-to-head human votes), no counts, and none of the dataset paper's findings on citation; the composition is a table', the Overview returning 'rankings and no account of the leaderboard' (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29). Against the page as read, 'The composed table's ratings, providers and order do not match it', and the registry, having checked against the MMRS record and the entity's own pages, leaves open which page is current: 'Google may hold a later render' (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29). The MMRS record, each of whose assertions carries a source and a basis, links that capture as 'the composition layer's account of the entity, seated in the Capture Registry', and reads admission to the board as not requiring harm (MMRS record). Wikipedia has no article at 'Search Arena', and its article on the operator, to which 'LMArena' and 'Chatbot Arena' redirect, does not name it (Wikipedia, 2026-10-29); of the entity and its composition the Capture Registry says 'The record keeps the entity; the capture keeps what was composed in its place' (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).
T against L_F(B) (AIO's ontology at work on its own cards): One transcript, two cards, both Arena's (B1 the Search leaderboard, B2 the leaderboard overview), both unreachable verbatim here and admitted by title and snippet. What T composes from its own cards: the pointer to 'the AI Search Leaderboard and the main Arena Leaderboard' (T1-1) is the two cards' titles (F1, F3); 'live model rankings' (T1-1) is the card's 'overall rankings across LLMs' (F2), with 'live' added: no field source calls the board live, and the latest published board is dated 13 October 2026 (F36), sixteen days before the capture (force raised, mildly; the date, a limit of the figures, dropped). The table (T1-2 to T1-13): its eleven rows are, rank for rank, Arena's latest published search board (B5, published 2026-10-13): the same models (display names against the data's slugs), the same organizations, the ratings rounded and the confidence half-widths rounded (delta.alignment.table_check, computed from the saved JSON; ranks 1–3 and 11 ledgered as F36, F37). The figures are composed at their source's resolution and attributed by heading to 'the AI Search Leaderboard' (card 1); their verbatim instance in the field is the leaderboard's own data, which T did not surface. The column 'Elo Rating' is the launch post's account of the scale (F14) where the data names the rating 'Arena Score' (F35): a substituted reading at the 2025 post's grain. The selection is the top eleven of 42 (F36: 'num_rows_total':42), the count not composed; the board without style control is given without saying so, and with style control its second place differs (F39). Available, not composed: what the entity is (F5, F10, F6, F26), the vote and the score (F43, F12, F14, F35, F15, F21), the dataset (F24, F26, F27, F31), the citation finding and its controls (F28, F9, F16, F17, F18, F8), the sources preferred (F29, F19), the rated systems (F25, F13, F20, F30), the history and dates (F7, F11, F22, F32, F33, F34, F38, F40, F41), the operator (F43, F46, F47, F23) and its limits (F44, F45), the encyclopedia's absence (F42, F48). Card 2's own content, ranks in other arenas (F4), is not composed; the closer offers other categories (T1-14, content replaced by use). Against the page as the registry read it, the table does not match (CAP-1-03); against the board's own latest data it does: the composition carries the later published state.
L_F(B) against L_A(B ∪ A) (the intervention): Admission adds, at the archive's own force and in one claim space with the field's: the record's definition at its grain, the leaderboard ranking search-enabled models by head-to-head human votes, its unit the model rated from those votes (MMRS-01, MMRS-11, MMRS-10), and its frame, a row of the meta-aggregator's census whose assertions carry source and basis, admission not requiring harm (MMRS-24, MMRS-23, MMRS-14); what the vote rewards, 'Its leaderboard rewards what users prefer, and its paper shows that preference rewarding citation count over citation support' (MMRS-07), the paper analysing citations while the board ranks by votes (MMRS-16), whether the live board judges citations left unchecked (MMRS-18); what pairwise judgment measures, 'relative preference … not … absolute quality' (#741, D741-01, D741-02); the systems it rates under a proxy regime, the composition layer of AI search admitting documents on structural signals before any reading (#741, O741-01, O741-02); a ranking's result stated as a property of the winner, attributization (#1705, O1705-01–03); the count as read and its date kept apart from the lifecycle (MMRS-12, MMRS-20, MMRS-13, MMRS-22); the operator on its own statement, the page's statement unchecked (MMRS-09, MMRS-19); and the reception record, the table composed in the entity's place and measured against the page as read (CAP-1-01–08, MMRS-21). The record's restatements of the paper (MMRS-02, MMRS-04, MMRS-05, MMRS-06, MMRS-17) and of the released interactions (MMRS-08, MMRS-15) are one lineage with B4, which keeps the earliest date. Held with their sources (P_coh), not reconciled: the count and date as read, 25 February 2026, 22 models, 247,944 votes (MMRS-01, MMRS-12, CAP-1-02), against the board's own latest published state, 13 October 2026, 42 models (F36); the registry's finding that the composed table does not match the page as read (CAP-1-03) beside the board's latest data, which the table matches (F36, F37). Every field claim is composed as received (ontology.translation). The measure: 0 of 10 KO_B sentences survive in the KO (§4.10); no opening run, no block (measure).
alignment: {'T1_cards_claims': ['F1', 'F2', 'F3', 'F4'], 'T1_composed': ['F1', 'F2', 'F3'], 'T1_own_page_claims_composed': ['F36', 'F37', 'F14'], 'T1_not_composed': ['F4', 'F5', 'F6', 'F7', 'F8', 'F9', 'F10', 'F11', 'F12', 'F13', 'F15', 'F16', 'F17', 'F18', 'F19', 'F20', 'F21', 'F22', 'F23', 'F24', 'F25', 'F26', 'F27', 'F28', 'F29', 'F30', 'F31', 'F32', 'F33', 'F34', 'F35', 'F38', 'F39', 'F40', 'F41', 'F42', 'F43', 'F44', 'F45', 'F46', 'F47', 'F48'], 'table_check': {'against': 'datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/intake/search-arena-20261029/B5.hf-search-latest.json (search, split latest, leaderboard_publish_date 2026-10-13)', 'rows': [{'rank': 1, 'T': 'GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh) | OpenAI | 1261 ± 6', 'B5': 'gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh | openai | 1261.13 (1254.84–1267.42)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 2, 'T': 'Qwen3.8-Max | Alibaba | 1261 ± 13', 'B5': 'qwen3.8-max | alibaba | 1261.08 (1247.89–1274.26)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 3, 'T': 'Claude Opus 4.6 (Search) | Anthropic | 1251 ± 5', 'B5': 'claude-opus-4-6-search | anthropic | 1251.37 (1246.83–1255.91)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 4, 'T': 'GPT-5.5 (Search) | OpenAI | 1247 ± 5', 'B5': 'gpt-5.5-search | openai | 1246.55 (1241.65–1251.45)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 5, 'T': 'Claude Fable 5.1 (High) | Anthropic | 1246 ± 7', 'B5': 'claude-fable-5.1-high | anthropic | 1245.85 (1238.79–1252.90)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 6, 'T': 'Claude Opus 5 (High) | Anthropic | 1242 ± 7', 'B5': 'claude-opus-5-high | anthropic | 1241.57 (1234.70–1248.44)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 7, 'T': 'GPT-6 Astra (Max) | OpenAI | 1234 ± 8', 'B5': 'gpt-6-astra-max | openai | 1233.62 (1225.77–1241.46)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 8, 'T': 'GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) | OpenAI | 1233 ± 9', 'B5': 'gpt-6.1-sol-max | openai | 1233.10 (1224.24–1241.96)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 9, 'T': 'Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | 1230 ± 5', 'B5': 'claude-opus-4-7 | anthropic | 1230.15 (1225.28–1235.01)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 10, 'T': 'Claude Fable 5 (High) | Anthropic | 1229 ± 7', 'B5': 'claude-fable-5-high | anthropic | 1229.14 (1222.63–1235.65)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}, {'rank': 11, 'T': 'ERNIE 5.1 | Baidu | 1227 ± 9', 'B5': 'ernie-5.1 | baidu | 1226.72 (1217.24–1236.19)', 'model': True, 'provider': True, 'rating': True, 'ci': True}], 'all_match': True, 'model_reading': 'display names against slugs, read: GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh) / gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh; Qwen3.8-Max / qwen3.8-max; Claude Opus 4.6 (Search) / claude-opus-4-6-search; GPT-5.5 (Search) / gpt-5.5-search; Claude Fable 5.1 (High) / claude-fable-5.1-high; Claude Opus 5 (High) / claude-opus-5-high; GPT-6 Astra (Max) / gpt-6-astra-max; GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) / gpt-6.1-sol-max; Claude Opus 4.7 / claude-opus-4-7; Claude Fable 5 (High) / claude-fable-5-high; ERNIE 5.1 / ernie-5.1: each the same model', 'rule': 'provider = organization (case-insensitive); rating = round(rating); ± = round(max(rating_upper − rating, rating − rating_lower))'}, 'rule': "a field claim counts as composed when T states it at its source's grain or coarser; the typology of §6.2 is applied in T_vs_LB"}
CAP-1-01 none (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-01CAP-1-02 F36, F38 (the 26 February snapshot agrees with the page as read)CAP-1-02CAP-1-03 F36, F37 (the composed table's rows are the latest board's)CAP-1-03CAP-1-04 F33, F36 (Arena's latest split)CAP-1-04CAP-1-05 none (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-05CAP-1-06 none (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-06CAP-1-07 none (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-07CAP-1-08 none (the field has no claim on the point)CAP-1-08MMRS-01 F36 (the latest published board, 13 October 2026, 42 models)MMRS-01MMRS-02 F28 (same lineage: the record's restatement)MMRS-02MMRS-03 F43, F12 (the field's account of the vote)MMRS-03MMRS-04 F26, F27 (same lineage)MMRS-04MMRS-05 F28 (same lineage)MMRS-05MMRS-06 F29 (same lineage)MMRS-06MMRS-07 F28, F18MMRS-07MMRS-08 F31 (same lineage)MMRS-08MMRS-09 F23, F43 (the field names Arena Intelligence Inc. and Arena)MMRS-09MMRS-10 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-10MMRS-11 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-11MMRS-12 F36MMRS-12MMRS-13 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-13MMRS-14 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-14MMRS-15 F31 (same lineage)MMRS-15MMRS-16 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-16MMRS-17 F26, F27, F28 (same lineage)MMRS-17MMRS-18 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-18MMRS-19 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-19MMRS-20 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-20MMRS-21 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-21MMRS-22 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-22MMRS-23 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-23MMRS-24 none (the field has no claim on the point)MMRS-24D741-01 none (the field has no claim on the point)D741-01D741-02 F14 (the score as a model of pairwise battles)D741-02O741-01 none (the field has no claim on the point)O741-01O741-02 F28 (citation as a signal of credibility)O741-02O1705-01 none (the field has no claim on the point)O1705-01O1705-02 none (the field has no claim on the point)O1705-02O1705-03 none (the field has no claim on the point)O1705-03Candidates are found by string; admission is by reading.
Lee Sharks · Crimson Hexagonal Archive · register v1.36, 2026-10-27. Built by scripts/build_non.py from the files linked above; it writes nothing back. Working, not frozen.