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Will Alibaba be the third-best Code Arena | WebDev AI lab at the end of October 2026?
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OPENResearch 3h ago
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−0.5 pts 24hAI analysts 33% (4)Top traders 2 Yes · 0 NoNews 1 todayNews
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- match: Alibaba
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What decides it
Settles on the company in 3rd place by Lab Rank on arena.ai's Code Arena | WebDev leaderboard (Labs view), checked Oct 31, 12:00 PM ET. If Lab Rank is ambiguous or missing, labs are ordered by their best model in the Models view, then by listing order, then alphabetically; AutoEval-marked models are excluded.
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In LMArena's published WebDev data (overall), each lab's best model orders Anthropic (claude-opus-5.5-max, 1811.15), OpenAI (gpt-6-astra-max, 1780.24), Google (gemini-4-argon-high, 1677.96), Alibaba (qwen3.8-max-0902, 1673.15).
huggingface.coThe Oct 8 snapshot had the same order at the top: Anthropic 1813.0, OpenAI 1786.1, Google 1677.8, Alibaba 1673.5.
datasets-server.huggingface.coThe Sep 30 snapshot also had Google 3rd (1679.0) and Alibaba 4th (qwen3.8-max, 1671.2) by best model, behind Anthropic (1817.8) and OpenAI (1789.1).
datasets-server.huggingface.co
Case for Yes
Alibaba's best WebDev model trails Google's by 4.8 points (1673.15 vs 1677.96), and Google's entry rests on 1,772 votes with a wide published interval; Alibaba has a second model (1671.99) just behind.
Case for No
In the Sep 30, Oct 8 and Oct 13 snapshots Alibaba's best model sat 4th among labs, behind Google's gemini-4-argon-high; under the fallback, a tie on rank goes to the model listed higher, and Meta and Moonshot are within about 18 points below.
What to watch next Further leaderboard snapshots before the Oct 31, 12:00 PM ET check, new WebDev entries from Google, Alibaba, Meta or Moonshot, and whether the live Labs view shows Google and Alibaba sharing a Lab Rank.
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What decides it
Settles on the company in 3rd place by Lab Rank on arena.ai's Code Arena | WebDev leaderboard (Labs view), checked Oct 31, 12:00 PM ET. If Lab Rank is ambiguous or missing, labs are ordered by their best model in the Models view, then by listing order, then alphabetically; AutoEval-marked models are excluded. Yes needs Alibaba exactly 3rd; 2nd or 4th is No. The published dataset shows models, not the Labs view's Lab Rank.
Sources
- LMArena leaderboard dataset - webdev, overall, 2026-10-08 snapshot (Hugging Face) · datasets-server.huggingface.co
- LMArena leaderboard dataset - webdev, overall, 2026-09-30 snapshot (Hugging Face) · datasets-server.huggingface.co
- lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset (Hugging Face) · huggingface.co
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- This market will resolve according to the third-highest ranked Company based on the arena.ai Code Arena | WebDev Leaderboard when the table under "Code Arena | WebDev" filtered for "Labs" is checked on October 31, 2026, 12:00 PM ET. Results from the "Lab Rank" column under the "Code Arena | WebDev" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/code/webdev?rankBy=labs (Overall) filtered for "Labs" will be used to resolve this market. Note: Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score. AI companies will be ordered primarily by their Lab Rank at the market’s check time. If the results based on the lab ranking are ambiguous or unavailable, the relevant AI companies will be ordered according to their highest-ranking AI model in the leaderboard’s “Models” view. If two or more models are tied on rank, they will be ordered by which model is listed higher on the leaderboard. If a tie still remains, alphabetical order of AI lab/company names as listed in this market group will be used as a final tiebreaker (e.g., “Google” would be ranked ahead of “SpaceXAI”). This market will resolve based on the company that occupies third place under this ranking. The resolution source for this market is the arena.ai Code Arena | WebDev Leaderboard. If this resolution source is unavailable at check time, this market will remain open until the leaderboard comes back online and will resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve to "Other".Kellian is not affiliated with Polymarket.
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