Question 1

Which AI lab is leading right now?

Accepted Answer

As of October 13, 2026, Claude leads AI Standings with 50.0% of 2 public votes, followed by OpenAI (50.0%). The standings update live as people vote at aistandings.live.

Question 2

What is AI Standings?

Accepted Answer

AI Standings is a live, global public poll ranking 15 frontier AI labs, including Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google DeepMind), Grok and Cursor (SpaceX), DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral. One vote per person, updated in real time. It is an independent, unscientific public poll and is not affiliated with any lab.

Question 3

Which AI labs and models are included?

Accepted Answer

15 labs: Claude (Anthropic), OpenAI (ChatGPT, Codex), Gemini (Google DeepMind), SpaceX (Grok, Cursor, X Premium), DeepSeek (DeepSeek), Meta AI (Meta Superintelligence Labs), Mistral (Le Chat), Qwen (Alibaba), Kimi (Moonshot AI), Copilot (Microsoft AI), Perplexity (Perplexity), Doubao (ByteDance Seed), GLM (Z.ai), MiniMax (MiniMax), Thinking Machines (Thinking Machines Lab).

Question 4

How does voting work?

Accepted Answer

Each person gets one vote and can move it to another lab or remove it at any time. No account is needed. Every vote passes a Cloudflare Turnstile human check, each network has a daily cap on new votes, and IP addresses are never stored.

Question 5

Is ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini more popular in the vote?

Accepted Answer

Claude is #1 with 50.0%; OpenAI is #2 with 50.0%; Gemini is #3 with 0.0% (as of October 13, 2026).

Question 6

How often is it updated?

Accepted Answer

Vote counts update live. Each lab's latest headlines refresh every 15 minutes, and the arrows show places gained or lost over the last 7 days.

Question 7

Can I use or cite the data?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Cite "AI Standings (aistandings.live)". Machine-readable snapshots are at https://aistandings.live/standings.json and https://aistandings.live/standings.md.

Pos	Lab	Share	Votes
4–	SpaceXGrok, Cursor, X Premium	0.0%	0
5–	DeepSeekDeepSeek The AI race with China the US is losing · The Hill · 3h	0.0%	0
6–	Meta AIMeta Superintelligence Labs Dutch groups seek court order to halt Meta AI glasses sales · The420.in · 2h	0.0%	0
7–	MistralLe Chat Nvidia plans $2 billion in new European AI investments · Latest news from Azerbaijan · 2h	0.0%	0
8–	QwenAlibaba	0.0%	0
9–	KimiMoonshot AI	0.0%	0
10–	CopilotMicrosoft AI	0.0%	0
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11–	PerplexityPerplexity Microsoft Reveals the Maia 300 AI Accelerator · Techiexpert.com · 3h	0.0%	0
12–	DoubaoByteDance Seed Are Tencent, Alibaba & ByteDance Launching a Siege on Ctrip? · 36Kr · 15h	0.0%	0
13–	GLMZ.ai Anthropic unveils distillation defenses and names Zhipu and Kimi · Pasquale Pillitteri · 3h	0.0%	0
14–	MiniMaxMiniMax Muse Wonder vs MiniMax M3: 23 Points, 13x the Price · OrcaRouter · 7h	0.0%	0
15–	Thinking MachinesThinking Machines Lab	0.0%	0

Claude and OpenAI are tied

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