Kamryn Ohly

cofounder @intelligence_ai @designarena | Harvard CS & Edu

[Kamryn Ohly @KamrynOhly]

Introducing Intelligence by the creators of Design Arena.

Insanely grateful for everyone who has helped us get here today, and excited for what’s to follow.

[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.

[Fireworks @FireworksAI_HQ]

We’re working to build the largest collection of private and public practitioner evals.

Today, 31 new partners join the Specialized Intelligence Index. Compare open, closed, and specialized models on real work, weigh quality against cost, and see where training could pay off.

https://t.co/Ofq6wHNe8w

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

DesignArena is joining @FireworksAI_HQ’s Specialized Intelligence Index.

Our Full-Stack, Agentic Game Dev, and Python-PPTX Slides leaderboards use blind votes to measure which outputs people prefer, helping teams weigh design quality in model selection.

Explore the results: https://t.co/sJxHBQf3Py

[Canva @canva]

Canva Craft debuted as the world's 4th most advanced image generation model on @DesignArena with an Elo score of 1340.

It delivers exceptional visual quality and state-of-the-art text rendering, outperforming some of the world's leading frontier models.

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

Our paper, AudioAgentBench, was accepted to the @NeurIPSConf 2026 Evaluations & Datasets Track!

We’ve open-sourced a suite of six static, multi-turn benchmarks designed to stress-test speech-to-speech models on realistic customer-facing tasks. Here’s what we built:

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

Introducing Spreadsheet Arena! Models now go head-to-head building real spreadsheets on Design Arena, and the first leaderboard is live.

The top 3 models are nearly neck and neck: Claude Fable 5.1 by @AnthropicAI (1371), GPT-6 Astra (xhigh) by @OpenAI (1370), and Claude Opus 5.5 by @AnthropicAI (1358).

Then comes a 108-point drop to #4 Claude Sonnet 5.5 (1250). Only 13 points separate the top 3, but there's a clear gap between them and the rest of the field.

Check out the leaderboard at https://t.co/l0LjoRjEsD!

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: GPT-6 Astra by @OpenAI has taken the #1 spot across 4 of Design Arena’s leaderboards: 3D Design (1484), Frontend (1397), Full Stack (1355), and Image-to-HTML (1272).

This is an impressive takeover since its release just a month ago - in particular, it excels at 3D Design (see example below):

[Alex Gong @gongzhongcheng]

We found in the thinking summaries that Opus 5.5 structures its thinking and executes more like a "builder", while Astra approaches problems more like a "designer". Go check out the new video now!

[Ideogram @ideogram_ai]

While ideogram 4.5 was specifically built for precise and targeted editing, it performs extremely well across general editing tasks.

[Kamryn Ohly @KamrynOhly]

@oliverjohansson @QuiverAI the model can draw 🎨

[Kamryn Ohly @KamrynOhly]

@gongzhongcheng Insane animations!

[Grace Li @grx_xce]

More soon :)

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

MiniMax H3 Max by @fal takes the #1 spot on Video Editing by Design Arena with an Elo of 1373.

The model ranks ahead of MiniMax H3 by @MiniMax and @GoogleDeepMind's Gemini Omni Flash and Gemini Omni Flash 1.1. It's also in a league of its own on the Pareto frontier for Preference vs Speed and Preference vs Price.

Congratulations to the @fal team on post-training an exceptional model.

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

BREAKING: MiMo-V2.6-Pro by @XiaomiMiMo lands at #8 overall (#3 open-weight) on Design Arena with an Elo of 1338.

This is an impressive 54-point and 22-position increase from MiMo-V2.5-Pro.

MiMo-V2.6-Pro also reaches #4 overall in Website (#2 open-weight) and #6 overall in Agentic Frontend Development (#2 open-weight), showing strong performance across both direct generation and agentic coding.

This places @XiaomiMiMo's new model among leading models such as GPT-5.6 Sol by @OpenAI, Claude Opus 5 by @Anthropic, and Kimi K3 by @MoonshotAI.

Congratulations to the @XiaomiMiMo team on returning to a top-10 placement on Design Arena!

[Kamryn Ohly @KamrynOhly]

@clairexu198 @hannachangg @Chobani you have no clue what big chobani yogurt + protein shake fans we are over here

[Kamryn Ohly @KamrynOhly]

@clairexu198 @hannachangg costco gonna get us both

[Kamryn Ohly @KamrynOhly]

@christinesed @Muse the team’s hard work and love for the product is incredibly clear!

[Kamryn Ohly @KamrynOhly]

delighted at how I can react to @Muse’s messages as if I’m reacting to a friend’s iMessage

phenomenal UX addition + signal

[Oliver Johansson @oliverjohansson]

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash by @deepseek_ai is back in the top 10, but what's crazier is that 6 out of the 7 models on the Price vs Preference Pareto frontier are all open weights

[Kamryn Ohly @KamrynOhly]

@hannachangg @deepseek_ai an insane leap!

[Kamryn Ohly @KamrynOhly]

We are close to the entire frontier being open.

[DesignArena @DesignArena]

Open weights are on the verge of sweeping Design Arena’s price–preference frontier.

6 of the 7 models defining it are already open weights. If Meta’s planned Muse Spark open-weights release includes Muse Spark 1.3 Max, all seven would be open weights.

The frontier could soon be entirely open.