Anthropic leads market-implied odds at 66.5% for the best AI agent by end of October due to its focused push into production-grade agentic systems, including the general availability of Claude Cowork for independent task execution and the beta of Claude Managed Agents that accelerate enterprise deployment. Traders cite strong benchmark results on complex coding and multi-step workflows, plus Anthropic’s 2026 State of AI Agents Report highlighting real-world scaling at major firms, as key factors. OpenAI sits at 18% with its ChatGPT Agent and Operator features, while most other labs trail below 1% amid slower progress on reliable tool use and long-horizon autonomy. Upcoming model updates and developer conferences in the next two months remain the main swing factors before resolution.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · UpdatedAnthropic 67%
OpenAI 14%
Alibaba 7.1%
Moonshot 3.5%

Anthropic
67%

OpenAI
19%

Alibaba
7%

Moonshot
3%

1%

Baidu
1%

Z.ai
1%

SpaceXAI
1%

Meta
1%

Xiaomi
1%

ByteDance
1%

Amazon
1%

Mistral
1%

Microsoft
1%

DeepSeek
1%

MiniMax
1%

Nvidia
1%

Meituan
1%
Anthropic 67%
OpenAI 14%
Alibaba 7.1%
Moonshot 3.5%

Anthropic
67%

OpenAI
19%

Alibaba
7%

Moonshot
3%

1%

Baidu
1%

Z.ai
1%

SpaceXAI
1%

Meta
1%

Xiaomi
1%

ByteDance
1%

Amazon
1%

Mistral
1%

Microsoft
1%

DeepSeek
1%

MiniMax
1%

Nvidia
1%

Meituan
1%
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Resolver
0x69c47De9D...Results from the "Rank" column under the "Agent Arena" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent filtered for "Models" will be used to resolve this market.
Note: Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score.
Models will be ordered primarily by their leaderboard rank at the market’s check time. If two or more models are tied on rank, they will be ordered by which model is listed higher on the leaderboard. If a tie still remains, alphabetical order of company names as listed in this market group will be used as a final tiebreaker (e.g., “Google” would be ranked ahead of “SpaceXAI”). This market will resolve based on the company that occupies first place under this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is the Agent Arena Leaderboard found at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent. 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.
Resolver
0x69c47De9D...Anthropic leads market-implied odds at 66.5% for the best AI agent by end of October due to its focused push into production-grade agentic systems, including the general availability of Claude Cowork for independent task execution and the beta of Claude Managed Agents that accelerate enterprise deployment. Traders cite strong benchmark results on complex coding and multi-step workflows, plus Anthropic’s 2026 State of AI Agents Report highlighting real-world scaling at major firms, as key factors. OpenAI sits at 18% with its ChatGPT Agent and Operator features, while most other labs trail below 1% amid slower progress on reliable tool use and long-horizon autonomy. Upcoming model updates and developer conferences in the next two months remain the main swing factors before resolution.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · Updated
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