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#4 of 13

Meta

Down 0.1 since 18 Oct, rising over 30 days (Direction ▲ 5.8). Latest driver: Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full agent models.

Strongest onCapability3rd
Lags onEcosystem10thTrust, safety and privacy10thValue9th
Score62.0▼ 0.1 since 18 Oct
Strength60.9Eight pillars
Direction▲ 5.8Last 30 days
Confidence high92% of its indicators measured and fresh

Score over time

Reconstructed55606524 Aug21 Sep19 Oct
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Reconstructed55606524 Aug21 Sep19 Oct
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57 daily closes, the earlier ones reconstructed. Download CSV

The eight pillars

Each pillar 0 to 100 on fixed goalposts, with its rank among the 13 ranked labs. The tick marks the median lab; points are what the pillar adds to Strength.

Capability203rd84+16.8
Usage and adoption165th35+5.5
Release execution64th87+5.3
Value159th54+8.0
Ecosystem1110th62+6.8
Reception44th80+3.2
Reliability118th98+10.8
Trust, safety and privacy1710th26+4.4

Why Meta is #4

Most of its Strength comes from Capability and Reliability. Points are contributions to the Score.

  • Behind Google DeepMind by 13.7 points. Biggest differences: Trust, safety and privacy −7.5, Usage and adoption −3.9, Capability −1.1; Direction +0.2.
  • Ahead of Alibaba by 0.3 points, within the day-to-day noise. Biggest differences: Trust, safety and privacy −4.8, Release execution +1.9, Usage and adoption +1.1; Direction +0.8.

With every pillar weight moved up to 50% either way, it ranks 4 to 5 in 90% of recalculations; with equal weights, #4.

Since 18 Oct

Score down 0.1 (62.0 to 62.0). No pillar moved by 0.1 or more.

What was measuredAll 25 readings behind this close, with source, date and goalposts

Filled: no fresh reading, so the ranked labs' median was used. Carried: a source that keeps no history, read later.

IndicatorReadingScaledGoalpostsAs of
Arena text rating
Arena (arena.ai) text leaderboard: rating of the lab's best model with 1,000 votes or more
1494.2
muse-spark-1.3-max
811250 to 1550 rating13 Oct
Benchmarks
Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub: the lab's best score on each of GPQA Diamond, FrontierMath tiers 1 to 3, SWE-bench Verified and OTIS Mock AIME, each placed between fixed goalposts, averaged; runs from the last 365 days, at least 3 of the 4
87
GPQA diamond 89.8% (Muse Spark); FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private 82.1% (Muse Wonder (max)); OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 99.4% (Muse Wonder (max))
87already 0 to 10019 Oct
Paid adoption
Published spend and paid-use evidence, latest edition of each: Ramp AI Index (share of US businesses paying the vendor, monthly), Menlo Ventures (enterprise API spend share), a16z CIO survey (share of LLM wallet), ICONIQ (share of AI builders using the provider), each placed on its own scale and averaged by weight; facts and sources at /data/adoption.json
14.7
a16z enterprise CIO survey (2026-01): 5%; ICONIQ, State of AI 2026: The Builder's Economy (2026-07): 21%
15already 0 to 10019 Oct
Assistant users
Users of the lab's assistants (chat apps and coding agents) as the lab or its parent last disclosed them, or a panel measurement (QuestMobile) where a lab discloses none; weekly figures count as monthly (a lower bound); dated by disclosure, and only disclosures from the last 12 months count; not applicable to a lab with no figure; facts and sources at /data/assistants.json
1000000000
Meta AI (across Meta's apps): more than a billion monthly actives already use Meta AI (Mark Zuckerberg, Q3 2025 call, 2025-10-29)
911 million to 2 billion monthly users19 Oct
Web traffic
Cloudflare Radar: the lab's best rank among the top 20 generative-AI services by traffic, 21 minus the rank
4
Meta AI #17 among generative-AI services
200 to 20 rank points19 Oct
API spend share
OpenRouter rankings: the lab's share of all dollars spent on OpenRouter in the last 30 days, across every model (not token volume, which cheap bulk models dominate)
1.0294
1.0% of $104.4M spent on OpenRouter in 30 days (17 models)
170% to 35% of spend11 Oct
App charts
App Store top free charts in 7 countries
34.6
IN #75, BR #51, GB #34, US #2
350 to 100 chart points19 Oct
Coding agent downloads
npm and PyPI downloads of the lab's official coding agents (such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, Mistral Vibe), last 30 days; not applicable to a lab with none; standalone IDEs without public counts (such as Antigravity) are not seen
No official coding agent with public download counts10 thousand to 100 million a month
Coding extension installs
VS Code Marketplace: installs of the lab's official coding extensions; not applicable to a lab with none
No official coding extension on the VS Code Marketplace100 thousand to 50 million installs
SDK downloads
PyPI and npm downloads of the official SDKs, last 30 days
Not applicable100 thousand to 1 billion a month
Open-model downloads
Hugging Face downloads of the lab's models, last 30 days
20350481
meta-llama, meta-models
6610 thousand to 1 billion a month19 Oct
Shipping cadence
Vikshy Wire: confirmed launches and updates of materiality 2 or more, last 90 days
20
20 confirmed launches and updates in 90 days
820 to 30 in 90 days19 Oct
Biggest launch
Vikshy Wire: the biggest launch in the last 90 days, fading with age
4.8196materiality 0 to 519 Oct
Rating per dollar
Arena rating of the lab's best-value model, less 30 points for each doubling of its blended list price (3 parts input to 1 part output), with prices below $0.30 per million counted as $0.30
1464.2
muse-spark-1.3-max: 1494 at $2.00/M blended
541250 to 1650 points13 Oct
Cloud availability
Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry: whether each offers the lab's current models as a managed, pay-per-use API (the flagship or the model one step behind it counts 1, an older generation only 0.5, open-weight side lines 0), dated by availability; facts and sources at /data/distribution.json
1.5
Amazon Bedrock: Llama 4 Maverick and Scout; the flagship Muse Spark is on Meta's API only (older generation, half); Google Cloud: Llama 4 Maverick and Scout (older generation, half); Microsoft Foundry: Llama 4 Maverick (older generation, half)
500 to 3 platforms19 Oct
Open-weight hosts
OpenRouter: distinct providers serving the lab's open-weight models; not applicable to a lab that publishes none (a closed model's reach is its cloud availability)
15
Modal, Together, Nebius, Fireworks, BaseTen, DeepInfra, DigitalOcean, Novita, Parasail, Google, AkashML, Cloudflare
661 to 60 providers19 Oct
Developer interest
Hugging Face likes on the lab's models
71208
meta-llama, meta-models
741 thousand to 316 thousand likes19 Oct
Hacker News
Hacker News points on stories about the lab, last 30 days
1986
4 stories; top: Muse Spark Open (917)
740 to 30,000 points19 Oct
Press and analysts
Vikshy Wire: press and analyst pieces on the lab's developments, last 30 days
47890 to 60 pieces19 Oct
Official API uptime
The lab's own status page: 30-day uptime of the components that make up its model API, counting major outages in full and partial outages at 30%, the pages' own formula (degraded performance is not counted); labs label outages differently, so a measured cross-check sits beside it
No fresh reading: filled with the median9899% to 100% over 30 days
Measured uptime
OpenRouter: the median uptime of the lab's own API endpoints, an independent cross-check of the status page, the mean of daily readings over 30 days
99.9075
mean of 30 daily readings, 2026-09-20 to 2026-10-19
9990% to 100%19 Oct
Independent assessments
Independent assessments published by then, each put on 0 to 100: the Future of Life Institute AI Safety Index (40%), the Stanford Foundation Model Transparency Index (30%) and the SaferAI risk-management ratings (30%), averaged over those that cover the lab; a lab none covers is not independently assessed, and filled with the median like any gap
31.5
3 of 3 assessments: FLI AI Safety Index (2026-07) 1.32; Foundation Model Transparency Index (2025-12) 31; SaferAI Risk Management Tracker (2026-07) 33
320 to 10019 Oct
Customer data commitments
From the lab's own documentation: API and business data not used for training by default; a zero-data-retention option; a choice of data region
1
no training on API data by default
330 to 3 commitments19 Oct
Security certifications
From the lab's trust center: SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management) covering its model API
0
none of SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001 found
00 to 3 certifications19 Oct
Security and privacy incidents
Security breaches, data leaks and regulatory privacy actions (bans, fines, orders) affecting the lab's AI services or caused by its AI systems in the last 12 months, from reputable reporting and regulators, counted once per public disclosure, and half when the lab itself disclosed harm from its AI with no legal duty to; every fact, and what was not counted and why, is at /data/trust.json
2
2026-03-20: An internal AI agent's advice caused a two-hour exposure of company and user data to unauthorised employees; 2026-06-08: Instagram's AI support assistant was abused to take over up to 20,225 accounts
330 to 3 in 12 months, fewer is better19 Oct

What moved Direction

The developments that count most in the last 30 days. Direction ▲ 5.8.

  1. +3.6Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full agent models12 Oct · Frontier-class model launch
  2. +1.4Meta launches Muse Spark Open AI model with Apple Mac support15 Oct · Flagship model launch
  3. −0.8Amazon blocks Meta AI agent from using Amazon.com21 Sep · Security incident
  4. +0.4Meta announces AI game creation tools for Horizon24 Sep · New product or feature
  5. +0.3Meta brings Muse to AI glasses and launches VR Glasses at Connect 202623 Sep · Security incident
  6. +0.2Meta and EssilorLuxottica pilot AI glasses for blind museum visitors in Milan14 Oct · New product or feature
All 16 developments, line by line

Points for materiality, times recency, times diminishing returns (or the setback cap).

DevelopmentMaterialityPointsRecencyDiminish or capCounts
Amazon blocks Meta AI agent from using Amazon.com
21 Sep · Security incident
31.50.541-0.81
Meta launches Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses and new AI glasses styles
23 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.570.13+0.06
Meta introduces Meta VR Glasses
23 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.570.12+0.05
Meta brings Muse to AI glasses and launches VR Glasses at Connect 2026
23 Sep · Security incident
31.50.580.36+0.31
Meta builds standalone Muse Charm device for its Muse AI agent
24 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.580.14+0.06
Meta announces AI game creation tools for Horizon
24 Sep · New product or feature
31.50.590.45+0.4
Meta launches Meta Enterprise Platform for business AI
28 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.650.16+0.08
Meta launches Muse for Small Business AI agent
29 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.670.17+0.09
Meta donates 1,000 Ray-Ban AI glasses to Singapore disability groups
1 Oct · New product or feature
20.750.710.19+0.1
Meta open sources code for building Muse AI gadgets
2 Oct · New product or feature
20.750.730.22+0.12
Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full agent models
12 Oct · Frontier-class model launch
540.891+3.56
Meta adds AI tools to customize Facebook Feed and Reels
13 Oct · New product or feature
20.750.910.25+0.17
Meta and EssilorLuxottica pilot AI glasses for blind museum visitors in Milan
14 Oct · New product or feature
20.750.920.29+0.2
Meta launches Muse Spark Open AI model with Apple Mac support
15 Oct · Flagship model launch
42.50.930.63+1.45
Meta announces updates to Ray-Ban Display glasses
23 Sep · Product update · minor: counts zero
100
Meta terms may let it train AI on news sites for free
16 Oct · Policy or regulatory step · counts zero (kind or rule)
20.750

Latest from Meta

What Meta shipped, broke and changed lately. The full Meta timeline, with every model it has released.

  1. 16 Oct
    Meta terms may let it train AI on news sites for freeMoney and policy · Policy or regulatory step
  2. 15 Oct
    Meta launches Muse Spark Open AI model with Apple Mac supportModels · Flagship model launch · 1M context
  3. 14 Oct
  4. 13 Oct
  5. 12 Oct
    Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full agent modelsModels · Frontier-class model launch · 1M context · $4.00 in / $20.00 out per 1M
  6. 2 Oct

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