OpenAI will occupy first place on the arena.ai Text-to-Image Leaderboard when it is checked on October 31, 2026. OpenAI’s gpt-image-2 (medium) will be the model that seals the top rank after leading on August 10, 2026 with a score of 1381±5 and 70,065 votes. Microsoft’s mai-image-2.6-preview will r…