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Stanford AI Index: Anthropic Tops Global Rankings
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- 2026-04-14
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI has released its 2026 AI Index report, revealing that Anthropic now leads global AI rankings with an Elo score of 1,503, followed by xAI at 1,495 and Google at 1,494.
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