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Which companies will have a #1 AI model by December 31?

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Which companies will have a #1 AI model by December 31?

Dec 31

Dec 31

$98,464 Vol.

Dec 31, 2026
Polymarket

$98,464 Vol.

Polymarket

OpenAI

$21,099 Vol.

32%

Google

$16,961 Vol.

20%

Meta

$14,540 Vol.

16%

Alibaba

$3,257 Vol.

13%

xAI

$8,516 Vol.

13%

Moonshot

$6,603 Vol.

11%

Z.ai

$2,479 Vol.

9%

DeepSeek

$2,960 Vol.

9%

ByteDance

$2,815 Vol.

8%

Amazon

$2,727 Vol.

8%

Microsoft

$3,469 Vol.

8%

Baidu

$1,901 Vol.

7%

Meituan

$2,331 Vol.

6%

Mistral

$8,806 Vol.

3%

This market will resolve to "Yes" if the listed company has the highest arena rank based on the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/) by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No." Results from the "Rank" column under the "Text Arena | Overall" Leaderboard tab at https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text with style control off will be used to resolve this market. If a listed model ties for #1 Arena rank, it will suffice to resolve this market to "Yes." 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 will resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve based on another resolution source.Anthropic's recent Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5 releases have propelled its models to the top of multiple August 2026 leaderboards, including strong showings on GPQA, coding benchmarks like SWE-bench, and composite quality indices, edging out OpenAI's GPT-5.6 variants in several evaluations. OpenAI maintains competitive positioning through its broad ecosystem, high inference speeds on models like GPT-5.6 Sol, and enterprise adoption, while Google's Gemini 3.6 series and xAI's Grok 4.5 deliver strong multimodal and specialized performance. Moonshot's Kimi K3 stands out among open-weight options. Key upcoming catalysts include anticipated September releases from OpenAI and Google, plus further Anthropic iterations, which could shift frontier model leadership before year-end amid rapid iteration cycles and benchmark volatility.

This market will resolve to "Yes" if the listed company has the highest arena rank based on the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/) by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No."

Results from the "Rank" column under the "Text Arena | Overall" Leaderboard tab at https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text with style control off will be used to resolve this market.

If a listed model ties for #1 Arena rank, it will suffice to resolve this market to "Yes."

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 will resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve based on another resolution source.
Volume
$98,464
End Date
Dec 31, 2026
Market Opened
Apr 30, 2026, 3:22 PM ET

Resolver

0x65070BE91...
This market will resolve to "Yes" if the listed company has the highest arena rank based on the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/) by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No." Results from the "Rank" column under the "Text Arena | Overall" Leaderboard tab at https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text with style control off will be used to resolve this market. If a listed model ties for #1 Arena rank, it will suffice to resolve this market to "Yes." 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 will resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve based on another resolution source.
This market will resolve to "Yes" if the listed company has the highest arena rank based on the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/) by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No." Results from the "Rank" column under the "Text Arena | Overall" Leaderboard tab at https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text with style control off will be used to resolve this market. If a listed model ties for #1 Arena rank, it will suffice to resolve this market to "Yes." 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 will resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve based on another resolution source.Anthropic's recent Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5 releases have propelled its models to the top of multiple August 2026 leaderboards, including strong showings on GPQA, coding benchmarks like SWE-bench, and composite quality indices, edging out OpenAI's GPT-5.6 variants in several evaluations. OpenAI maintains competitive positioning through its broad ecosystem, high inference speeds on models like GPT-5.6 Sol, and enterprise adoption, while Google's Gemini 3.6 series and xAI's Grok 4.5 deliver strong multimodal and specialized performance. Moonshot's Kimi K3 stands out among open-weight options. Key upcoming catalysts include anticipated September releases from OpenAI and Google, plus further Anthropic iterations, which could shift frontier model leadership before year-end amid rapid iteration cycles and benchmark volatility.

This market will resolve to "Yes" if the listed company has the highest arena rank based on the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/) by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No."

Results from the "Rank" column under the "Text Arena | Overall" Leaderboard tab at https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text with style control off will be used to resolve this market.

If a listed model ties for #1 Arena rank, it will suffice to resolve this market to "Yes."

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 will resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve based on another resolution source.
Volume
$98,464
End Date
Dec 31, 2026
Market Opened
Apr 30, 2026, 3:22 PM ET

Resolver

0x65070BE91...
This market will resolve to "Yes" if the listed company has the highest arena rank based on the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/) by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No." Results from the "Rank" column under the "Text Arena | Overall" Leaderboard tab at https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text with style control off will be used to resolve this market. If a listed model ties for #1 Arena rank, it will suffice to resolve this market to "Yes." 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 will 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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"Which companies will have a #1 AI model by December 31?" is a prediction market on Polymarket with 14 possible outcomes where traders buy and sell shares based on what they believe will happen. The current leading outcome is "OpenAI" at 32%, followed by "Google" at 20%. Prices reflect real-time crowd-sourced probabilities. For example, a share priced at 32¢ implies that the market collectively assigns a 32% chance to that outcome. These odds shift continuously as traders react to new developments and information. Shares in the correct outcome are redeemable for $1 each upon market resolution.

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