The Score on 1 October 2026.
On 1 October 2026, OpenAI leads the Vikshy Score at 78.9, ahead of Anthropic (78.1) and Google DeepMind (75.3). Google DeepMind is rising fastest (▲ 5.1, after Google announces Gemini 4 Argon frontier model); 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
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 | 25 Sep | 26 Sep | 27 Sep | 28 Sep | 29 Sep | 30 Sep | 1 Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 78.5 | 78.8 | 78.8 | 78.6 | 78.5 | 78.9 | 78.9 |
| Anthropic | 77.4 | 77.5 | 77.2 | 77.4 | 77.9 | 78.2 | 78.1 |
| 72.3 | 72.3 | 72.1 | 72.1 | 72.2 | 72.2 | 75.3 | |
| Alibaba | 60.7 | 60.6 | 60.8 | 60.8 | 60.8 | 60.7 | 61.2 |
| Meta | 58.5 | 58.3 | 58.7 | 58.8 | 58.7 | 58.9 | 59.5 |
| Z.ai | 57.6 | 57.2 | 57.2 | 56.7 | 56.7 | 56.9 | 57.9 |
| DeepSeek | 56.3 | 57.8 | 57.7 | 57.8 | 57.8 | 58.0 | 57.9 |
| xAI | 54.2 | 54.2 | 54.2 | 54.2 | 54.3 | 54.3 | 54.3 |
| Mistral | 51.3 | 51.3 | 51.5 | 51.2 | 51.7 | 51.7 | 52.2 |
| Moonshot | 51.0 | 51.1 | 51.1 | 51.1 | 51.0 | 51.0 | 51.5 |
| Tencent | 51.7 | 51.7 | 51.4 | 51.4 | 51.4 | 51.4 | 51.4 |
| MiniMax | 47.4 | 47.3 | 47.3 | 47.3 | 47.3 | 47.1 | 47.0 |
| Cohere | 41.4 | 41.4 | 41.5 | 41.5 | 41.5 | 41.5 | 41.7 |
