It will be SOTA maybe when Gemini Ultra is available. GPT-4 is still SOTA.

Usually SOTA status is established when the benchmark paper is released (probably after some review). But GPT4 is the current generally-available-SOTA

They also compare to RLHFed GPT-4, which reduces capabilities, while their model seems to be pre-RLHF. So I'd expect those numbers to be a bit inflated compared to public release.

They certainly claim it is SOTA for multimodal tasks: “Gemini surpasses SOTA performance on all multimodal tasks.”