Who's ahead, and who's moving.
On 19 October 2026, Anthropic leads the Vikshy Score at 79.8, ahead of OpenAI (78.8) and Google DeepMind (75.7). Mistral is rising fastest (▲ 6.7, after Mistral releases Mistral Large 4); MiniMax is falling fastest (▼ 1.0).
Score is Strength today plus 0.18 × Direction over 30 days. Confidence is how much of a lab's evidence is measured and fresh. How the Score works
Who will have the best model at the end of October?
Polymarket's odds (2,957,209 dollars traded), settled on Arena's text leaderboard on 31 Oct, and what Vikshy readers pick. Tap a lab to pick it: one pick per browser, and you can change it until the month ends. The market
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Strength and Direction
Across: where each lab stands today. Up: which way it has moved over the last 30 days. Filled dots are rising.
How the Score works
The Vikshy Score is a daily, open ranking of the leading AI labs, built only from public evidence: how strong each lab is today, which way it is heading, and exactly why. Strength is where each lab stands, from eight measured pillars; Direction is where it is heading, from the last 30 days of developments. 13 labs ranked, 4 on the watchlist. The Score closes daily at 06:00 UTC; big launches and outages move Direction live in between.
History
Every close is kept with the method version it used. Past numbers are never rewritten; corrections are logged in the open.
| Lab | 13 Oct | 14 Oct | 15 Oct | 16 Oct | 17 Oct | 18 Oct | 19 Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 79.5 | 79.5 | 79.6 | 79.9 | 79.9 | 79.8 | 79.8 |
| OpenAI | 78.8 | 78.8 | 78.8 | 78.8 | 78.9 | 78.9 | 78.8 |
| 75.2 | 75.5 | 75.9 | 75.8 | 75.7 | 75.7 | 75.7 | |
| Meta | 60.9 | 60.9 | 61.1 | 61.9 | 62.1 | 62.0 | 62.0 |
| Alibaba | 61.8 | 61.6 | 61.7 | 61.6 | 61.6 | 61.3 | 61.6 |
| xAI | 58.6 | 58.6 | 58.6 | 58.7 | 58.7 | 58.8 | 58.7 |
| DeepSeek | 58.1 | 58.1 | 59.0 | 57.6 | 57.5 | 58.5 | 58.5 |
| Z.ai | 58.1 | 58.1 | 58.3 | 58.2 | 58.2 | 58.2 | 58.2 |
| Mistral | 56.3 | 56.3 | 56.5 | 55.9 | 55.8 | 55.8 | 55.8 |
| Moonshot | 50.4 | 50.4 | 50.5 | 50.5 | 50.5 | 50.5 | 51.0 |
| Tencent | 51.5 | 51.5 | 51.6 | 50.1 | 50.6 | 50.6 | 50.6 |
| MiniMax | 45.9 | 45.9 | 46.3 | 45.9 | 45.7 | 45.7 | 45.7 |
| Cohere | 41.7 | 41.8 | 41.9 | 41.6 | 41.6 | 41.6 | 41.6 |
