#6 of 13

Meta

Down 0.2 since 23 Sep, rising over 30 days (Direction ▲ 1.8). Latest driver: Meta launches Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses and new AI glasses styles.

Strongest onCapability2nd
Lags onTrust, safety and privacy10thEcosystem9thValue8th
Score57.4▼ 0.2 since 23 Sep
Strength57.0Eight pillars
Direction▲ 1.8Last 30 days
Confidence high92% of its indicators measured and fresh

Score over time

Reconstructed50556024 Aug8 Sep24 Sep
ScoreStrength

32 daily closes, the earlier ones reconstructed. Download CSV

Reconstructed Rebuilt with the live code from evidence dated on or before 24 September 2026. How

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.

Capability202nd84+16.8
Usage and adoption165th33+5.3
Release execution66th51+3.1
Value158th55+8.2
Ecosystem119th61+6.8
Reception44th64+2.6
Reliability115th90+9.9
Trust, safety and privacy1710th26+4.4

Why Meta is #6

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

  • Behind Z.ai by 0.8 points. Biggest differences: Usage and adoption +2.8, Value −2.2, Ecosystem −2.1; Direction +0.2.
  • Ahead of DeepSeek by 0.8 points. Biggest differences: Capability +1.8, Ecosystem −1.6, Trust, safety and privacy +0.5.

With every pillar weight moved up to 50% either way, it ranks 5 to 7 in 90% of recalculations; with equal weights, #6.

Since 23 Sep

Score down 0.2 (57.6 to 57.4). Usage and adoption −0.7, Release execution +0.2, Reception +0.2, Direction +0.1.

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
1499.6
muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)
831250 to 1550 rating24 Sep
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
84.3
GPQA diamond 89.8% (Muse Spark); FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private 74.4% (Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh)); OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 99.2% (Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh))
84already 0 to 10024 Sep
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 10024 Sep
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 users24 Sep
Web traffic
Cloudflare Radar: the lab's best rank among the top 20 generative-AI services by traffic, 21 minus the rank
0
not in the top 20 generative-AI services
00 to 20 rank points24 Sep
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)
0.8482
0.8% of $95.1M spent on OpenRouter in 30 days (17 models)
160% to 35% of spend24 Sep
App charts
App Store top free charts in 7 countries
43.7
US #77, GB #4, IN #10, BR #7
440 to 100 chart points24 Sep
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
28095755
meta-llama, meta-models
6910 thousand to 1 billion a month24 Sep
Shipping cadence
Vikshy Wire: confirmed launches and updates of materiality 2 or more, last 90 days
9
9 confirmed launches and updates in 90 days
550 to 30 in 90 days24 Sep
Biggest launch
Vikshy Wire: the biggest launch in the last 90 days, fading with age
2.3246materiality 0 to 524 Sep
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
1469.6
muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh): 1500 at $2.00/M blended
551250 to 1650 points24 Sep
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 platforms24 Sep
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)
14
Phala, DeepInfra, Fireworks, Together, DigitalOcean, Novita, Parasail, Google, AkashML, Cloudflare, SambaNova, Groq
641 to 60 providers24 Sep
Developer interest
Hugging Face likes on the lab's models
68254
meta-llama, meta-models
731 thousand to 316 thousand likes24 Sep
Hacker News
Hacker News points on stories about the lab, last 30 days
757
2 stories; top: Muse Spark 1.3 (691)
640 to 30,000 points24 Sep
Press and analysts
Vikshy Wire: press and analyst pieces on the lab's developments, last 30 days
25650 to 60 pieces24 Sep
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 median8699% 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
99.9987
mean of 30 daily readings, 2026-08-26 to 2026-09-24
10090% to 100%24 Sep
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 10024 Sep
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 commitments24 Sep
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 certifications24 Sep
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 better24 Sep

What moved Direction

The developments that count most in the last 30 days. Direction ▲ 1.8.

  1. +0.7Meta launches Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses and new AI glasses styles23 Sep · New product or feature
  2. +0.5Meta introduces Meta VR Glasses23 Sep · New product or feature
  3. +0.3Meta launches Meta One subscription with more AI usage15 Sep · New product or feature
  4. +0.2Meta launches Muse personal AI agent8 Sep · Security incident
  5. +0.1Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3 AI model2 Sep · New flagship model
All 8 developments, line by line

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

DevelopmentMaterialityPointsRecencyDiminish or capCounts
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3 AI model
2 Sep · New flagship model
20.750.640.29+0.14
Meta launches Muse personal AI agent
8 Sep · Security incident
20.750.740.36+0.2
Meta launches Meta One subscription with more AI usage
15 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.860.45+0.29
Meta launches Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses and new AI glasses styles
23 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.991+0.74
Meta introduces Meta VR Glasses
23 Sep · New product or feature
20.750.990.63+0.46
Threads adds parental supervision for teens in APAC
16 Sep · Product update · minor: counts zero
100
smartARM uses Meta AI glasses for bionic prosthetic control
16 Sep · Product update · minor: counts zero
100
Meta announces updates to Ray-Ban Display glasses
23 Sep · Product update · minor: counts zero
100

Latest from Meta

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

  1. 14 Aug
    Meta releases Glimmer open-weight AI modelModels · New open-weight model
  2. 10 Aug
  3. 5 Aug
  4. 5 Aug
    Meta introduces Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2Models · New model · 1M context · $1.25 in / $4.25 out per 1M

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