Weekly AI Rankings — May 17 – May 24, 2026

This week, Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, generating significant interest in the community. However, early feedback has been mixed due to access issues and concerns about quality.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is designed for agentic and coding scenarios and is part of a broader product lineup that includes Gemini Omni.

This week, Anthropic reported significant successes of Claude Mythos in vulnerability detection, drawing attention to its application in security. This update highlights the importance of frontier models in both offensive and defensive security.

Mythos Preview helped identify over 10,000 vulnerabilities, with 90.6% confirmed by independent audits.

The Mythos Preview update from Anthropic also became a significant event this week, showcasing the model's effectiveness in real-world conditions. This underscores the growing role of LLMs in the security domain.

The model flagged 6,202 potentially dangerous cases in open-source projects, confirming its high accuracy.

Google introduced Antigravity 2.0 at I/O, which is part of a broader product lineup that includes Gemini 3.5 Flash. This update generated interest but also raised questions about its actual performance.

Antigravity 2.0 includes CLI, SDK, and voice integrations, expanding its functionality.

Alibaba unveiled Qwen 3.7-Max this week, highlighting its AI stack and infrastructure. This event underscores the company's push for independence from NVIDIA.

Qwen 3.7-Max showcases operation on its own Zhenwu M890 chips, which is part of the company's broader strategy.

This week, the transition of Andrej Karpathy to Anthropic was discussed, highlighting the competition for key talent in the AI field. This event drew attention to the research context of Anthropic.

Karpathy's move is seen as a strengthening of Anthropic's research capabilities.

Discussions about Claude Code this week focused on comparing local and cloud coding LLMs. This highlights the importance of choosing between privacy and quality.

Local models show lower efficiency compared to cloud counterparts like Claude Code.

The Swedish project AirForestry attracted attention this week, although it is not AI-core. This highlights interest in innovations in the drone sector.

The project focuses on using drones for forestry operations.

Figure AI attracted attention this week with a demonstration of its robots sorting packages. This event underscores progress in the field of robotics.

Figure AI robots demonstrated high efficiency, nearly matching human performance in sorting.

The discussion of the GitHub data leak this week highlights risks to the security of internal repositories. This event raised concerns among technical teams.

The leak affected thousands of internal repositories, serving as a serious warning for developers.