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          🏆 THE VIBE LEADERBOARD
        

          UPDATED: 1/1/1970, 12:00:00 AM
        

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OpenAI 🇺🇸 S TIER

Infinite Stargate hype. Sam Altman staring into your soul. Burning nuclear power plants for vibes.

#stargate#cooked#infinite-upround

9,876

VIBE PTS

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DeepSeek 🇨🇳 S TIER

Liang Wenfeng chad flex. $6M cluster crashed the Nasdaq. The entire West is in shambles.

#fp8-wizardry#anti-bubble#cost-clearing

8,421

VIBE PTS

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Anthropic 🇺🇸 A TIER

Claude 3.7 Sonnet artifacts are cracked. Dario writing moral essays while eating compute.

#artifacts#constitutional#amazon-bailout

7,823

VIBE PTS

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Z.ai / Zhipu 🇨🇳 A TIER

GLM-4 bench-maxing from Beijing. Tsinghua quant energy. Ice cold efficiency.

#sleeper#glm-maxing#tsinghua

6,102

VIBE PTS

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Moonshot / Kimi 🇨🇳 A TIER

Kimi k1.5 reasoning sprint. 2M context needle in a haystack. Moon-maxing directly into top 5.

#kimi-k2#moon-maxing#long-context

5,850

VIBE PTS

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Google 🇺🇸 A TIER

Sundar memo energy. Gemini 2.5 Flash is secretly insane. 1M context video swallows everything.

#tpu-v5p#ai-first#context-warlord

5,644

VIBE PTS

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Meta 🇺🇸 B TIER

Zuck hydrofoiling in zinc sunscreen while dumping open weights to ruin everyone else ARR.

#llama-4#open-burn#zuck-vibe

4,801

VIBE PTS

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MiniMax 🇨🇳 B TIER

Hailuo video generations breaking Twitter. Talkie voice avatars printing undisclosed cash.

#video-beast#hailuo#audio-vibe

4,650

VIBE PTS

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ByteDance / Doubao 🇨🇳 B TIER

TikTok dopamine feed algorithm baked directly into token logits. Infinite consumer scale.

#tiktok-scale#algorithm-trap#traffic-god

4,380

VIBE PTS

#10

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xAI / Grok 🇺🇸 B TIER

Memphis Colossus 100k H100 cluster breathing industrial gas turbines. Unhinged timeline vibes.

#colossus#gas-turbines#edgy-token

4,206

VIBE PTS

#11

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Qwen / Alibaba 🇨🇳 B TIER

Jack Ma cloud special. Qwen 2.5 coder models carrying half of GitHub Copilot in secret.

#coder-goat#alibaba-cloud#free-shipping

3,892

VIBE PTS

#12

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Mistral 🇫🇷 B TIER

Arthur Mensch sipping espresso while securing European sovereign subsidies. Le Chat vibes.

#croissant-flops#french-sovereign#le-chat

3,401

VIBE PTS

#13

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Baichuan 🇨🇳 C TIER

Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan medical reasoning models. Quietly cooking behind the firewall.

#medical-bench#sogou#hundred-rivers

2,876

VIBE PTS

#14

Yi / 01.AI 🇨🇳 C TIER

Kai-Fu Lee unicorn. Fast-tracked to $1B valuation in 8 months. Pure venture velocity.

#kai-fu#unicorn-speed#01-compute

2,540

VIBE PTS

#15

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Cohere 🇨🇦 D TIER

Aidan Gomez enterprise RAG narrative. Waiting for an enterprise buy-out before next round.

#enterprise-rag#toronto-flops#series-d-sweat

1,654

VIBE PTS

#16

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Reka 🇸🇬 D TIER

DeepMind and Baidu ex-pats in Singapore. Multimodal benchmark flexing with no marketing.

#singapore-ai#pure-weights#silent-grind

1,320

VIBE PTS

#17

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AI21 Labs 🇮🇱 D TIER

Jamba Mamba SSM architecture hybrids. Novel attention math struggling against raw GPU cartel.

#ssm-mamba#jamba#tel-aviv

1,098

VIBE PTS

#18

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Stability AI 🏴 D TIER

Most iconic open source image models in human history, zero dollar enterprise revenue.

#legendary-burn#emad-lore#gpu-debt

876

VIBE PTS

#19

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Perplexity 🇺🇸 E TIER

Aravind tweeting 47 times a day. Web scraper wrapper fighting the entirety of Google search.

#search-wars#scraper-life#tweet-maxing

654

VIBE PTS

#20

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Hugging Face 🤗 E TIER

Clem Delangue hosting every broken LoRA checkpoint in the world on yellow servers. Pure vibes.

#model-junkyard#emoji-brand#cozy-hub

420

VIBE PTS

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