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EVENT BRIEF / Artificial intelligence milestones

Which company will have the top AI model at the end of 2026?

This market compares the companies behind the highest-ranked text model on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard at the stated year-end check time.

AI model leaderboard graphic for the year-end 2026 company ranking marketPOLYMARKET

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Leading chance
69.5%
Status
Open
24h volume
6.4K
Ends
Jan 1, 2027
Markets
26
Leading chance
Anthropic

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Original market question

Which company has best AI model end of 2026?

How to read the resolution

The owner of the first-ranked model on the text leaderboard with style control off wins. Rank comes first, then the underlying Arena score, with alphabetical company order as the final tie-breaker.

Market options

  1. Anthropic69.5%
  2. OpenAI12.5%
  3. Google8.5%
  4. xAI6.8%
  5. Meta2.2%

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Will Anthropic have the best AI model at the end of December 2026?
Outcome
Yes
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POLYMARKET / PRICE

Which company has best AI model end of 2026?

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Official market rulesExpand original rulesSource languageWill Anthropic have the best AI model at the end of December 2026?

Original source text. The selected market's rules govern resolution.

This market will resolve according to the company which owns the model which has the highest arena rank based off the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/) when the table under the "Leaderboard" tab is checked on December 31, 2026, 12:00 PM ET. Results from the "Rank" section on the Leaderboard tab of https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text with the style control off will be used to resolve this market. Models will be ordered primarily by their leaderboard rank at the market’s check time. If two or more models are tied on rank, they will be ordered by their Arena score, including any underlying, unrounded, granular values reflected in the data below the leaderboard. If a tie remains, alphabetical order of company names as listed in this market group will be used as a final tiebreaker (e.g., if the two models are tied by exact arena score, “Google” would be ranked ahead of “xAI”). This market will resolve based on the company that occupies first place under this ranking system. The resolution source for this market is the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard found at https://lmarena.ai/. If this resolution source is unavailable at check time, this market will remain open until the leaderboard comes back online and resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve based on another resolution source.

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03 / NARRATIVE

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