AI lab · updated 22 October 2026
Is Meta winning the AI race?
Yes. Meta is #1 of 10 on the AI Race index right now, 2.7 points ahead of Anthropic.
#1 94.3 −0.1 in 24h
Meta at a glance
- Flagship model
- Muse Wonder, released 2026-10
- Based in
- Menlo Park, US
- Valuation
- Public company (META) · market cap ≈ $1.81T, 16 Oct 2026
- Attention, 24h
- 42/100 · 35 stories, 0 HN points (not counted in the index)
The open-weights pioneer, now spending at superintelligence scale.
What the score is made of
| Component | Weight | Meta |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 55% | 92.0 |
| Release velocity | 25% | 95.5 |
| Compute & capital | 20% | 99.0 |
The index is a 7-day average. Capability comes from the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and LMArena, release velocity from model launches on OpenRouter, and capital from valuations or market caps. News attention is shown but never counted. How the index works.
Latest Meta models
- Muse Spark Open · 15 October 2026
- Muse Wonder · 12 October 2026
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor · 2 September 2026
- Muse Spark 1.3 · 2 September 2026
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor · 21 August 2026
Meta in the news
- 'One man's capex is another man's revenue': Aptus Capital's David Wagner on Meta's AI spending · CNBC
- Lawsuit accuses Meta of misleading consumers with expiring AI glasses deals · Top Class Actions
- WhatsApp may soon replace Meta AI with Muse: Here is what you nedde to know · Digit
- Zuckerberg Says Meta Muse AI App Surpasses 10 Million Users · news.lavx.hu
- Meta AI comes to Quest headsets in the UK, Australia, Japan and three more countries · MIXED Reality News
- Zuckerberg’s big dreams for AI agent Muse reveal Meta shift · The Nightly
- Meta's AI app Muse hits 10 million US downloads in 40 days · VOI.ID
- New poll reveals Americans’ feelings about AI · 95.5 WSB
How Meta compares
| # | Lab | Index | 24h | Flagship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meta | 94.3 | −0.1 | Muse Wonder |
| 2 | Anthropic | 91.6 | −0.1 | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| 3 | Google DeepMind | 89.7 | −0.1 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| 4 | Alibaba Qwen | 80.6 | −0.1 | Qwen3.8-Max |
| 5 | OpenAI | 80.4 | ±0.0 | GPT-6 Astra |
| 6 | DeepSeek | 73.8 | −0.1 | DeepSeek V4.1-Flash |
| 7 | xAI | 70.8 | −0.1 | Grok 4.7 |
| 8 | Moonshot AI | 58.8 | ±0.0 | Kimi K3 |
| 9 | Mistral AI | 56.5 | ±0.0 | Mistral Large 4 |
| 10 | Apple | 50.1 | ±0.0 | Siri AI (iOS 27) |
Head to head: Google DeepMind vs Meta · OpenAI vs Meta