LMArena says it's updating its leaderboard rules after Meta secured the #2 spot with a Llama 4 Maverick version it noted in fine print was not released publicly

Over the weekend, Meta dropped two new Llama 4 models: a smaller model named Scout, and Maverick, a mid-size model that the company claims can beat GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash “across a broad range of widely reported benchmarks.” Maverick quickly secured the number-two spot on LMArena, the AI…