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Google Is Very Likely to Reclaim the Top AI Model Ranking This Year

By Priced In News Staff

Source: Polymarket market “Which companies will have a #1 AI model by December 31?”

virtually certain (100%)
Resolved The money put OpenAI at 34% when this article was published. This market has since closed. See the track record →
Leading outcome Google 100% Virtually certain · Rising · A · tracked 50 days peak 100% · low 32% (49d ago) probably not → virtually certain 2 tier changes over tracking period
24h move ▲ 74.0 pts Google
Traded 24h $26K $195K all time
Resolves by 2027-01-01
Source markets 7 4/7 markets agree

Where the money stands

Google 100% ▲ 74.0
OpenAI 18% 0.0
xAI 12% 0.0
Meta 10% 0.0
Z.ai 8% 0.0
Alibaba 8% 0.0

Source markets for this story

Which company has the best AI model end of October? Polymarket · Google 75% · +65.3 24h
Best AI at the end of 2026? Kalshi · Claude 52% · -22.5 24h
Which company has best AI model end of 2026? Polymarket · Anthropic 50% · -28.0 24h
Best AI in Oct 2026? Kalshi · Gemini 72%
Which company has the best AI model end of November? Polymarket · Google 53% · +44.0 24h
Which companies will have a #1 AI model by December 31? Polymarket · Google 100% · +74.0 24h
Which company has #1 AI model end of October? (Style Control On) Polymarket · Google 64% · +49.6 24h
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