Chinese AI labs' rapid advances in agentic capabilities are the main force behind the tightly clustered market odds, with Moonshot's July 2026 Kimi K3 release delivering competitive performance on agent benchmarks and tool-use tasks at far lower cost than U.S. counterparts. OpenAI holds the highest implied probability at 51 percent due to its consistent frontier positioning in multi-step reasoning and production agent deployments, yet many labs sit near 50 percent because independent leaderboards show Chinese models like Moonshot, DeepSeek, and Z.ai closing gaps on coding, webdev, and autonomous workflow metrics while leading on price and open-weight accessibility. Anthropic's lower 8.6 percent reflects both its strength in demonstrated agent safety work and recent reports of large-scale distillation attempts by Chinese firms targeting Claude's reasoning features. Traders see the September cutoff as too soon for clear separation beyond the top two spots, with any new model drops, benchmark updates, or enterprise adoption data likely to shift the third-place consensus before resolution.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · UpdatedThird-best AI Agent Lab end of September?
Third-best AI Agent Lab end of September?
OpenAI 51.0%
Moonshot 37.1%
DeepSeek 5.1%
Z.ai 5.0%
$35,154 Vol.
$35,154 Vol.
Sep 30, 2026
OpenAI
51%
Moonshot
37%
DeepSeek
5%
Z.ai
5%
3%
Anthropic
9%
Alibaba
1%
SpaceXAI
1%
Meta
1%
Nvidia
1%
Mistral
1%
Baidu
<1%
Amazon
<1%
Xiaomi
<1%
MiniMax
<1%
Microsoft
<1%
ByteDance
<1%
Meituan
<1%
OpenAI 51.0%
Moonshot 37.1%
DeepSeek 5.1%
Z.ai 5.0%
$35,154 Vol.
$35,154 Vol.
Sep 30, 2026
OpenAI
$4,863 Vol.
51%
Moonshot
$21,458 Vol.
37%
DeepSeek
$369 Vol.
5%
Z.ai
$1,924 Vol.
5%
$425 Vol.
3%
Anthropic
$2,273 Vol.
9%
Alibaba
$294 Vol.
1%
SpaceXAI
$323 Vol.
1%
Meta
$272 Vol.
1%
Nvidia
$420 Vol.
1%
Mistral
$320 Vol.
1%
Baidu
$357 Vol.
<1%
Amazon
$306 Vol.
<1%
Xiaomi
$298 Vol.
<1%
MiniMax
$293 Vol.
<1%
Microsoft
$298 Vol.
<1%
ByteDance
$343 Vol.
<1%
Meituan
$318 Vol.
<1%
This market will resolve according to the third-highest ranked Company based on the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard when the table under "Agent Arena" filtered for "Labs" is checked on September 30, 2026, 12:00 PM ET.
Results from the "Rank" column under the "Agent Arena" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent filtered for "Labs" will be used to resolve this market.
Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score.
AI companies will be ordered primarily by their Lab Rank at the market’s check time. If the results based on the lab ranking are ambiguous or unavailable, the relevant AI companies will be ordered according to their highest-ranking AI model in the leaderboard’s “Models” view. 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 AI lab/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 third place under this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard. 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 to "Other".Chinese AI labs' rapid advances in agentic capabilities are the main force behind the tightly clustered market odds, with Moonshot's July 2026 Kimi K3 release delivering competitive performance on agent benchmarks and tool-use tasks at far lower cost than U.S. counterparts. OpenAI holds the highest implied probability at 51 percent due to its consistent frontier positioning in multi-step reasoning and production agent deployments, yet many labs sit near 50 percent because independent leaderboards show Chinese models like Moonshot, DeepSeek, and Z.ai closing gaps on coding, webdev, and autonomous workflow metrics while leading on price and open-weight accessibility. Anthropic's lower 8.6 percent reflects both its strength in demonstrated agent safety work and recent reports of large-scale distillation attempts by Chinese firms targeting Claude's reasoning features. Traders see the September cutoff as too soon for clear separation beyond the top two spots, with any new model drops, benchmark updates, or enterprise adoption data likely to shift the third-place consensus before resolution.
This market will resolve according to the third-highest ranked Company based on the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard when the table under "Agent Arena" filtered for "Labs" is checked on September 30, 2026, 12:00 PM ET.
Results from the "Rank" column under the "Agent Arena" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent filtered for "Labs" will be used to resolve this market.
Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score.
AI companies will be ordered primarily by their Lab Rank at the market’s check time. If the results based on the lab ranking are ambiguous or unavailable, the relevant AI companies will be ordered according to their highest-ranking AI model in the leaderboard’s “Models” view. 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 AI lab/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 third place under this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard. 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 to "Other".
Results from the "Rank" column under the "Agent Arena" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent filtered for "Labs" will be used to resolve this market.
Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score.
AI companies will be ordered primarily by their Lab Rank at the market’s check time. If the results based on the lab ranking are ambiguous or unavailable, the relevant AI companies will be ordered according to their highest-ranking AI model in the leaderboard’s “Models” view. 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 AI lab/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 third place under this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard. 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 to "Other".
Market Opened: Aug 12, 2026, 7:40 PM ET
Volume
$35,154End Date
Sep 30, 2026Market Opened
Aug 12, 2026, 7:40 PM ETResolver
0x69c47De9D...This market will resolve according to the third-highest ranked Company based on the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard when the table under "Agent Arena" filtered for "Labs" is checked on September 30, 2026, 12:00 PM ET.
Results from the "Rank" column under the "Agent Arena" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent filtered for "Labs" will be used to resolve this market.
Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score.
AI companies will be ordered primarily by their Lab Rank at the market’s check time. If the results based on the lab ranking are ambiguous or unavailable, the relevant AI companies will be ordered according to their highest-ranking AI model in the leaderboard’s “Models” view. 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 AI lab/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 third place under this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard. 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 to "Other".Chinese AI labs' rapid advances in agentic capabilities are the main force behind the tightly clustered market odds, with Moonshot's July 2026 Kimi K3 release delivering competitive performance on agent benchmarks and tool-use tasks at far lower cost than U.S. counterparts. OpenAI holds the highest implied probability at 51 percent due to its consistent frontier positioning in multi-step reasoning and production agent deployments, yet many labs sit near 50 percent because independent leaderboards show Chinese models like Moonshot, DeepSeek, and Z.ai closing gaps on coding, webdev, and autonomous workflow metrics while leading on price and open-weight accessibility. Anthropic's lower 8.6 percent reflects both its strength in demonstrated agent safety work and recent reports of large-scale distillation attempts by Chinese firms targeting Claude's reasoning features. Traders see the September cutoff as too soon for clear separation beyond the top two spots, with any new model drops, benchmark updates, or enterprise adoption data likely to shift the third-place consensus before resolution.
This market will resolve according to the third-highest ranked Company based on the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard when the table under "Agent Arena" filtered for "Labs" is checked on September 30, 2026, 12:00 PM ET.
Results from the "Rank" column under the "Agent Arena" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent filtered for "Labs" will be used to resolve this market.
Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score.
AI companies will be ordered primarily by their Lab Rank at the market’s check time. If the results based on the lab ranking are ambiguous or unavailable, the relevant AI companies will be ordered according to their highest-ranking AI model in the leaderboard’s “Models” view. 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 AI lab/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 third place under this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard. 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 to "Other".
Results from the "Rank" column under the "Agent Arena" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent filtered for "Labs" will be used to resolve this market.
Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score.
AI companies will be ordered primarily by their Lab Rank at the market’s check time. If the results based on the lab ranking are ambiguous or unavailable, the relevant AI companies will be ordered according to their highest-ranking AI model in the leaderboard’s “Models” view. 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 AI lab/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 third place under this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is the arena.ai Agent Arena Leaderboard. 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 to "Other".
Volume
$35,154End Date
Sep 30, 2026Market Opened
Aug 12, 2026, 7:40 PM ETResolver
0x69c47De9D...Chinese AI labs' rapid advances in agentic capabilities are the main force behind the tightly clustered market odds, with Moonshot's July 2026 Kimi K3 release delivering competitive performance on agent benchmarks and tool-use tasks at far lower cost than U.S. counterparts. OpenAI holds the highest implied probability at 51 percent due to its consistent frontier positioning in multi-step reasoning and production agent deployments, yet many labs sit near 50 percent because independent leaderboards show Chinese models like Moonshot, DeepSeek, and Z.ai closing gaps on coding, webdev, and autonomous workflow metrics while leading on price and open-weight accessibility. Anthropic's lower 8.6 percent reflects both its strength in demonstrated agent safety work and recent reports of large-scale distillation attempts by Chinese firms targeting Claude's reasoning features. Traders see the September cutoff as too soon for clear separation beyond the top two spots, with any new model drops, benchmark updates, or enterprise adoption data likely to shift the third-place consensus 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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