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Tech & Science · settles by Dec 31, 2026

Which company has best AI model end of 2026?

$2.6M traded on Polymarket, $26K in the past day.

Anthropic
50.5%
24h ▲3.07d ▲9.0
Google
40.5%
24h ▲1.07d ▼2.0

How it has moved

Daily close
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About this market

Who prices it. $2.6M has changed hands on Polymarket since it opened, $26K of it in the past day, with $1.2M in resting orders. The gap between the best buy and sell price on Anthropic is 1 point, so the quoted price is a fair read.

Other venues. Polymarket is the only venue we track that lists this exact question, so there's no second price to check it against.

What has moved it. No outcome has moved past our alert threshold in the past week.

What would change it. The fixed date is the deadline: it settles by December 31, 2026, 73 days away. Before then the price should mainly move on news that touches the rules below.

How it settles, in short. 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.

Every outcome

50.5%Anthropic▲9.0 7d
40.5%Google▼2.0 7d
5.8%OpenAI▼2.8 7d
1.4%Meta▼1.7 7d
1.3%xAI▼0.6 7d
0.4%Alibaba▼0.2 7d
0.4%DeepSeek▼0.1 7d
0.4%Moonshot▼0.2 7d
0.3%Z.ai▼0.1 7d
0.3%Mistral0.0 7d
0.1%Microsoft0.0 7d
0.1%Amazon0.0 7d
0.1%ByteDance0.0 7d
0.1%Baidu0.0 7d

In the news

No headline in the past two days has matched this market.