The Score on 16 September 2026.
On 16 September 2026, OpenAI leads the Vikshy Score at 77.4, ahead of Anthropic (74.3) and Google DeepMind (72.8). Google DeepMind is rising fastest (▲ 4.4, after Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber); 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
Reconstructed Rebuilt with the live code from evidence dated on or before 16 September 2026. How
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 78.8 | 78.8 | 78.8 | 78.8 | 78.9 | 78.9 | 78.8 |
| Anthropic | 79.5 | 79.5 | 79.6 | 79.9 | 79.9 | 79.8 | 79.8 |
| 75.2 | 75.5 | 75.9 | 75.8 | 75.7 | 75.7 | 75.7 | |
| Alibaba | 61.8 | 61.6 | 61.7 | 61.6 | 61.6 | 61.3 | 61.6 |
| Z.ai | 58.1 | 58.1 | 58.3 | 58.2 | 58.2 | 58.2 | 58.2 |
| Meta | 60.9 | 60.9 | 61.1 | 61.9 | 62.1 | 62.0 | 62.0 |
| DeepSeek | 58.1 | 58.1 | 59.0 | 57.6 | 57.5 | 58.5 | 58.5 |
| Tencent | 51.5 | 51.5 | 51.6 | 50.1 | 50.6 | 50.6 | 50.6 |
| Mistral | 56.3 | 56.3 | 56.5 | 55.9 | 55.8 | 55.8 | 55.8 |
| xAI | 58.6 | 58.6 | 58.6 | 58.7 | 58.7 | 58.8 | 58.7 |
| Moonshot | 50.4 | 50.4 | 50.5 | 50.5 | 50.5 | 50.5 | 51.0 |
| 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 |
