March 20, 2026
Voice Showdown: The First Arena for Voice AI
Voice Showdown is a preference-based benchmark for voice AI models, built on real human speech to measure how models perform across languages and real-world conversations.
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November 20, 2025
SEAL Showdown: Insights from GPT-5
Today, we add several new models to Showdown. A surprising finding is that users consistently rank GPT-5 significantly lower than other models. In this blog post, we share our preliminary analysis of GPT-5's ranking on Showdown, where we examine the effect of thinking effort, task type, and evaluation setting.
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September 22, 2025
Introducing SEAL Showdown: Real People, Real Conversations, Real Rankings
SEAL Showdown is a new public AI leaderboard from Scale that evaluates large language models based on real-world user preferences rather than synthetic tests or hobbyist feedback. Unlike existing leaderboards, it captures granular insights by demographics, regions, professions, and use cases, drawing on millions of conversations from a diverse global contributor base. Designed to be trustworthy and resistant to gaming, SEAL Showdown sets a new standard for model evaluation by showing how AI performs for people like you.
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