The AI Lab Race — dat.city

RANKING OVER TIME

Best model AA Intelligence Index

The AI Lab Race

February 1, 2026

Leader OpenAI

#2 Anthropic 49.7 49.7

#1 OpenAI 51.2 51.2

#4 Kimi 46.8 46.8

#7 SpaceXAI 41.4 41.4

#5 Z AI 42.1 42.1

— Meta — —

#3 Google 48.4 48.4

#6 DeepSeek 41.6 41.6

#8 Alibaba 39.7 39.7

#9 MiniMax 39.6 39.6

#10 Xiaomi 39.2 39.2

#11 KwaiKAT 36.1 36.1

— Mistral — —

— NVIDIA — —

#12 Amazon 35.6 35.6

— Thinking Machines — —

February 1, 2026 - July 31, 2026 Best model AA Intelligence Index

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Latest ranking

July 31, 2026

Best model AA Intelligence Index

#1 Anthropic 60.7

#2 OpenAI 58.9

#3 Kimi 57.1

#4 SpaceXAI 53.8

#5 Z AI 51.1

#6 Meta 50.6

#7 Google 50.1

#8 DeepSeek 49.9

#9 Alibaba 46

#10 MiniMax 44.4

#11 Xiaomi 42.2

#12 Thinking Machines 40.7

Timeline

Key moments

February 1, 2026
OpenAI leads the lab race
July 8, 2026
Anthropic leads the lab race
July 31, 2026
Anthropic leads the lab race

Notes

Methodology

This adapter reads the public Artificial Analysis homepage payload, groups scored models by the lab that created them, and ranks each lab by the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of its best released model. Historical frames are Internet Archive captures of the same homepage, so past standings reflect what Artificial Analysis actually published at the time. Recent frames replay model release dates, so a lab's tower jumps the day it ships a stronger frontier model.

Observed 25 scored Artificial Analysis model rows across 15 labs at 2026-08-05T06:06:35.481Z.

Reference

Sources

Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis