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A proposed AI lab ranking puts Anthropic ahead of OpenAI
In October, a user reiterated their May ranking, placing Google, Meta and xAI after Anthropic and OpenAI.
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A user posted a rough ranking of AI labs’ current model capabilities in May 2026, putting Anthropic ahead of OpenAI, followed by Google, Meta and xAI. They predicted that labs outside the frontier would fall a couple of months behind over the next year, depending on compute, and wanted error bars to reflect uncertainty. In October, the same user said the ranking still held.
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