Intelligence

What’s the limit? Creators of @designarena, @predictionbench, @socialsarena

[Intelligence @Intelligence_ai]

We’re excited to introduce Intelligence.

If you’re building frontier models or working on hard-to-verify evaluations, we’d love to talk.

[Grace Li @grx_xce]

Today, we're introducing @Intelligence_ai.

In 6 months, as a team of 10, we scaled from $5M to $60M ARR and 5.5M users across 190+ countries.

We raised a $7.9M seed, led by @IndexVentures with participation from @conviction, @A_StarVC, and @combinator to build DesignArena, a universal interface for accessing and evaluating the world's AI capabilities.

Most evaluations try to simulate the real-world. We believe the real-world is the ultimate verifier.

People come to @DesignArena with a request. Models compete to fulfill the request, and users determine what works best for them.

Their live user behavior evaluates the models, improves how work is routed, and helps people access the right intelligence.

We've helped the world's leading frontier labs break the news on their SOTA capabilities.

What's the limit? Join us and find out.

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

Introducing LifeArena: the world’s first arena for personal assistants, as judged by real users.

As AI assistants become more capable, existing static benchmarks struggle to capture the creative, unthinkable requests of people in their everyday lives.

So, we offered select users the most popular personal assistants: @instinct, @Muse by @AIatMeta, Dots by @OpenAI, Grok Bot by @xai, and Gemini by @GoogleDeepMind.

The results are in: @Muse is #1... by a landslide.

Here's what users said:

[Grace Li @grx_xce]

The majority of the human experience is visual.

Proud to see @DesignArena representing the visual coding capabilities in @thinkymachines' model card.

Excited to see visual coding become an increasingly dominant frontier for AI evaluation!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: Inkling 2 Small by @thinkymachines takes 4th place overall on DesignArena and is 1st place among open weights models with an Elo of 1376!

At $0.30/$1.00 per 1M input/output tokens, Inkling 2 Small is 15× cheaper on output than Kimi K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot. This model also places 1st on 2 of our subcategories including General Purpose and Landing Page prompts. Model weights to be released soon.

A huge congrats to the @thinkymachines team on a top-5 placement on the leaderboard!

[Grace Li @grx_xce]

GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst by @OpenAI is 1st on @DesignArena's Image Arena

The image frontier is now primarily dominated by OpenAI models

Huge congrats to the @OpenAI Image team!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

Your model loves making up fake ratings to make your business look good. Their favorite rating is 4.9 stars.

This page came from a 6-word request with no name, numbers or ratings. Claude Fable 5 invented the stars, # reviews, # new styles, free 30-day returns and even the live amount of customers. Across ~7k websites AI models built on DesignArena, 451 of the 681 with a star rating say 4.9.

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

Introducing Code to Video Arena.

Models have gotten remarkably good at creating animated videos without using video models at all. Instead of generating frames through diffusion, they can write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that render into a film.

Two models receive the same prompt, and each directs a 15–45 second film entirely through code, contained in a single webpage. We render both films at 1080p and 60fps. Each film also gets its own sound design, synthesized through the Web Audio API, and is normalized to the same loudness.

Leaderboard coming soon! Try it today at https://t.co/qwOSB9CQpq

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

Models can seemingly degrade over time.

The following scenes were created with the same prompt and the same model, @GoogleAI's Gemini 3.8 Flash, by a user on DesignArena.

The first was generated just 3 days after release, while the second came almost a month later.

The difference is striking. The first scene features a finished bungalow with terraced gardens, while the second is barely recognizable.

Digging into the code, we find that the second scene still attempts to build the garden, windows, and patio, but buries much of it beneath its own terraces.

In aggregate, the share of objects never visible on camera jumps from 18% to 57%. For bushes, the share placed underground jumps from 0% to 100%, and even the house walls go from fully above ground to 64% below it.

Both scenes share the same simple user request, yet a few weeks after release, the model struggles to fulfill it. Try making your own generations and judge for yourself at https://t.co/5Bc9iiapIE!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: Kimi K3.1 Pro by @Kimi_Moonshot is projected to rank #1 among open-weights models on DesignArena's Website leaderboard, and is tied for #3 among all models.

Kimi K3.1 Pro has a 15 Elo point lead on their previous model, Kimi K3, on the open weights leaderboard. Among all models it ranks behind only Muse Wonder (max) and Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh). That ties it with Muse Spark 1.3 Max for third place on the overall Website leaderboard.

Congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on the launch!

[Grace Li @grx_xce]

Canva’s first-ever image model has debuted at #4 on @DesignArena

This makes @canva the #2 AI image lab in the world, behind only @OpenAI

An incredible achievement from a very hardworking and talented team pushing the boundaries of what design companies accomplish in frontier AI research

Huge congratulations to @MelanieCanva and the rest of the @canva team!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

Canva Craft, the first ever image model by @canva, takes the #4 spot on DesignArena's Image leaderboard. This makes Canva the #2 Image Lab after @OpenAI!

Notably, it wins most often on photorealistic product and object shots, setting up studio-style lighting and detailed material textures on a single hero object. It also ranks #1 on the Portrait and Landscape subcategories.

Congrats to the @canva team on the launch!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: FLUX 3 Max by @fal lands at #6 in Video and Image-to-Video on Design Arena, debuting in the top 10 for both leaderboards.

This is the highest fal model yet on the Video leaderboard. This also places @fal's new model alongside leading video models from @Alibaba_Wan, @bfl_ai, and @GoogleDeepMind.

Congrats to the @fal team on the launch!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: HeyGen Video 1.0 (1080p, ultraquality) by @HeyGen, a post-trained model on MiniMax H3 by @MiniMax_AI, ranks #3 on both Design Arena's Video and Image to Video leaderboards, making HeyGen the #2 Video lab overall!

In Video, HeyGen Video 1.0 sits just behind Gemini Omni Flash by @GoogleDeepMind and ahead of Wan 3.0 by @Alibaba_Wan. In Image to Video, it also sits just behind MiniMax H3 Max by @MiniMax_AI, while generating faster than 71% of models.

Congrats to the @HeyGen team!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: MiniMax M3.1 Flash by @MiniMax_AI lands at #26 of 183 on Design Arena's Overall Frontend leaderboard, a 29-position jump over MiniMax M3 at #55!

MiniMax M3.1 Flash sits just behind Grok 4.6 by @spacexai and edges out Claude Opus 4.6 by @AnthropicAI and Gemini 3.6 Flash by @GoogleDeepMind. On Overall Frontend tasks, MiniMax M3.1 Flash wins most often on vaguer prompts, filling in the gaps with fun, complete games that have progression and levels, even when the user didn't ask for them.

Congrats to the @MiniMax_AI team!

[Grace Li @grx_xce]

We found that open-weight models often resemble @AnthropicAI model outputs' style vectors

This is not true for @Zai_org and later @Kimi_Moonshot models

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

Every model has a distinct style. We found it.

We used 64,000+ generated websites to calculate one "style" vector per model.

@OpenAI: cream + italic serif
@AnthropicAI: dark, glowing, purple
@GoogleDeepMind: navy dashboards with sidebars
@AIatMeta: loud magazine blocks

On the left of each row, we overlay the 40 pages of that model that is most similar to the style we find.

[Intelligence @Intelligence_ai]

Changes in tastes overtime, visualized

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

https://t.co/8Eexyu0e5h

[Intelligence @Intelligence_ai]

we like apple-picking

[Grace Li @grx_xce]

pov it’s your first day at @Intelligence_ai

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: P-Video-2-Pro (Cost) by @PrunaAI lands on the Pareto frontier for Preference vs Price in both Video and Image to Video on Design Arena.

P-Video-2-Pro (Cost) is 3× cheaper than P-Video-2-Pro (Quality) at only $0.125 per 5-second video, while having an average generation time of ~10 seconds, nearly 10× faster than the average video model.

Congratulations to the @PrunaAI team on this achievement!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: Ideogram 4.5 by @ideogram_ai places 15th in Image Editing with an Elo of 1250.

This puts the model in the same performance band as MAI-Image-2.6 by @MicrosoftAI and Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview by @GoogleDeepMind. The model performs particularly well with typography edits, such as modifying text in infographics.

Congratulations to the @ideogram_ai team on the launch!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: Recraft V4.1 Flash by @recraftai is the fastest image model yet on Design Arena.

With an average generation time of just 1.8 seconds, 16× faster than the average model, it overtakes P-Image by @PrunaAI to claim the top spot for speed and lands on the Image Pareto frontier for Preference vs Speed.

Congratulations to the @recraftai team on this achievement!