DIVISION · AI models
AI models
The labs that build the AI models people talk to.
Day-to-day
AI models are Day-to-day. The big labs keep building, and on 16 Oct EverWind said a frontier AI developer signed a long lease for the first 95 MW phase of its Nova Scotia campus, part of a plan with more than $10 billion of spending. But Character.AI started a Chapter 11 bankruptcy process on 12 Oct and plans a court supervised sale of the company, so the division is not at full strength.
The AI models are the chatbots and helpers people use every day, and not every lab is in good shape right now.
Latest news
- EverWind: Point Tupper data centre campus announcement
EverWind has reached a long-term lease agreement with a leading frontier AI developer for the initial phase of the Point Tupper campus.
- EverWind: Point Tupper data centre campus announcement
The campus is planned to begin with an initial 95-megawatt (MW) phase in late 2027
- Character.AI: An Update on Character.ai
Today, we're sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company.
Latest news
- Anthropic says it signed a long-term lease for the first 95 MW phase of EverWind's planned Point Tupper, Nova Scotia data center campus, due in late 2027
- Meta is named as the company behind a proposed Mason County, Kentucky data center campus, with a county-stated $10 billion initial investment and a 396 MW first phase per a 6 October summary document
- Character.AI files for Chapter 11 and puts itself up for sale
- OpenAI's annualized revenue is roughly $50bn, not the ~$68-70bn reported in September, per FT, Bloomberg and CNBC
- AI21 Labs
- Alibaba Group
- Anthropic
- Baidu
- Black Forest Labs
- Character.AI
- Cohere
- DeepSeek
- ElevenLabs
- Google DeepMind
- Meta Platforms
- MiniMax
- Mistral AI
- Moonshot AI
- OpenAI
- Perplexity AI
- Runway
- Safe Superintelligence
- SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
- Stability AI
- Suno
- Tencent
- Zhipu AI
As of 16 Oct 2026
The table
| Place | Model |
|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic Latest news: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 in September, per its own announcement |
| 2 | Muse Wonder Meta Platforms Latest news: Meta released Muse Wonder in October, per its own announcement |
| 3 | |
| 4 | GPT-6 Astra OpenAI Latest news: OpenAI made GPT-6 Astra available in ChatGPT Work, Codex and its API, per its own announcement |
| 5 | Grok 4.7 SpaceXAI Latest news: SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7 in September, per its own announcement |
| 6 | Qwen3.8-Max (0902) Alibaba Group Latest news: Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max (0902) in August, per its own announcement |
| 7 | Kimi K3 Moonshot AI Latest news: Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 in July, per its own announcement |
| 8 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (20260910) DeepSeek Latest news: DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (20260910) in September, per its own announcement |
| 9 | GLM-5.3 Zhipu AI Latest news: Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released GLM-5.3 in August, per its own announcement |
| 10 | Mistral Large 4 (public preview) Mistral AI Latest news: Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4 (public preview) in October, per its own announcement |
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Every company in the eight divisions gets a place once there is a sourced figure to place it. AI models are ordered mainly by what each model can do. The other divisions are ordered mainly by size.
In AI models, each model's place comes mainly from how it ranks on independent public tests, with smaller capped nudges from its maker's backing, its use, its new releases and its sourced news.
The count covers every company in the division, placed or not. In AI models that is all 22 companies in the division. Counting only the 13 companies in the division that make a ranked model gives 3 coloured companies, and the division is still Day-to-day.
In the other seven divisions, each company's place comes mainly from its size, measured by stock market value or latest private valuation and by revenue, with a small capped nudge from its sourced news. Revenue is taken from the company's own filings or results. Revenue in other currencies is converted to US dollars at the Federal Reserve rate on the last day of each company's financial year.
A company with a value but no published revenue is placed on its value alone and says so. A company with published revenue but no published value is placed on its revenue alone and says so. A company with no sourced size figure is not given a place yet. Large companies with many businesses are placed on their whole size and say so.
Rankings place a company within its division by fixed factors and the sourced news. They are not a forecast or a recommendation about any security.
Rankings show where a company stands in the AI economy. They say nothing about its shares.
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