Changelog

Score updates, methodology changes, and notable events.

Feb 7, 2026

Video Generation Expansion

Added 13 new organizations specializing in image and video generation: Midjourney, Black Forest Labs, Runway, Kuaishou (Kling), ByteDance Seed, Pika Labs, Luma AI, MiniMax (Hailuo), Ideogram, Recraft, Lightricks, StepFun, and Zhipu AI.

Midjourney Black Forest Labs Runway Kuaishou (Kling)ByteDance Seed Pika Labs Luma AI MiniMax (Hailuo)Ideogram Recraft Lightricks StepFun Zhipu AI

https://theairace.com/blog/video-expansion

Feb 1, 2026

Initial Rankings Published

First edition of The AI Race rankings with 25 organizations scored across capability, velocity, adoption, compute, ecosystem, and trust dimensions. Expanded to cover image and video generation specialists alongside frontier text labs.