Quite a few happy people at Google today I bet.
Which leads me to wonder, it's not like the Gemini 2 models were terrible either - they consistently were in top 5 if not top 3, now they've smashed past everything with a +40 elo.
Are we starting to see Google apply their compute/resources/data/money to assert dominance? What next from the recently-pretty-quiet Open AI? Are we getting to the stage where well-funded startups like Anthropic et al simply cannot compete with "google-scale" for general purpose models and end up as coding-only niche models? Sure you can throw GPUs at the problem and burn more investor cash, but are Google starting to run away with it with their data and infrastructure advantages? Who even comes close when you factor in data? Meta are the only people I can think of, but their data must be quite narrow (basically social graph and short-form videos and ad click data?)
Exciting times.