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@arenaX · May 7, 2026

Proprietary vs Open Frontier Gap

@arena's grouped bar chart drew 5.1K views on X: 0.1x its median post and #938 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

XDataGrouped bar chartDeepSeek R1All DeepSeek modelsProprietaryOpen sourceGap
Published by @arena on X, May 7, 2026. Source: x.com
31/ 100

ViralChart score

Small but loved

Fewer views than the median post but a higher engagement rate: a smaller crowd that acted on it.

#895 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #195 of 239 @arena posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

It sits in the Small but loved quadrant, with a score rank of #895 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 5.1K views are 0.11x @arena's median post, ranking #216 of 239 @arena posts.

At 0.022 views per follower against a 0.20 median, it sits in the 13th percentile.

The score of 31 places it #895 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #195 of 239 @arena posts.

0.02views per follower

5.1K views from an account with 234.1K followers.

0.1x@arena's median post

5.1K views, where @arena's typical post gets 46.2K.

0.1xthe median grouped bar chart post

Across 108 grouped bar chart posts we hold, the median gets 87.5K views.

2posts from @arena that day

Part of a run of 2 posts on May 7, 2026. This one was #2 of 2 by views that day.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 12, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 239 from @arena.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #895 of 1,162

Views5.1K#938bottom 19%
Likes35#934bottom 20%
Engagement rate0.80%#506top 44%
Save rate0.097%#446top 38%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #195 of 239

Views5.1K#216bottom 10%
Likes35#204bottom 15%
Engagement rate0.80%#90top 37%
Save rate0.097%#86top 36%

Growth

One read so far

Views5.1K
Age at our read158 days
Views per day of life33views divided by days since it was posted

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

@arena's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · May 7, 2026

@arena posts Proprietary vs Open Frontier Gap grouped bar chart

The May 7, 2026 grouped bar chart drew 5.1K views and a 0.80% engagement rate, landing in the Small but loved quadrant.

What happened

@arena published a grouped bar chart on Proprietary vs Open Frontier Gap on May 7, 2026. It was one of 2 posts from the account that day, alongside Gemma-4 Pareto Frontier for Vision Arena.

The numbers

It reached 5.1K views, ranking #938 of 1,162 AI chart posts by views and #216 of 239 @arena posts. Its score of 31 ranks #895 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

The lesson

A grouped bar chart with 3 models shown drew 5.1K views and a 0.097% save rate. The 0.80% engagement rate sits above the AI chart median even as views fall below it.

What it means

At #195 of 239 @arena posts by score, this chart sits far below the account's own median of 46.2K views. The 0.11x ratio to that median shows the gap between this post and @arena's typical reach.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 12, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Updates: what @arena posted next

  1. Gemma-4 Pareto Frontier for Vision Arena35.5K views
  2. Text Arena Best Models Category Rankings93K views
  3. Code Arena Leaderboard205.1K views
  4. Code Arena Overall Ranking457.1K views
  5. Text-to-Image Ranks #253K views
  6. Net Improvement vs. median cost per session4.5K views

Data and API

30 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 30%
SeriesGroupValueRead
ProprietaryQ1 20241345estimated
ProprietaryQ2 20241310estimated
ProprietaryQ3 20241335estimated
ProprietaryQ4 20241400estimated
ProprietaryQ1 20251510estimated
ProprietaryQ2 20251500estimated
ProprietaryQ3 20251540estimated
ProprietaryQ4 20251500estimated
ProprietaryQ1 20261545estimated
ProprietaryQ2 20261535estimated
Open sourceQ1 20241225estimated
Open sourceQ2 20241240estimated

Showing 12 of 30. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/19bde71b6353.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/afb6917b3a7a.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/afb6917b3a7a.skill.md
Make one like thisOpen the post JSONChart data JSONSkill fileAPI docs

Static files in this prototype. The post JSON holds the public numbers, ranks, score, quadrant, our reads and, when checked, our copy.

API · Max

Use this chart via API

On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id afb6917b3a7a.

Approximate values. Our two readings of this chart agreed only in part (confidence 0.30 of 1), so check the original before you quote a number. The API marks it lowConfidence, and ?min_confidence=0.5 leaves it out.

See the Max planAPI docs
PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/afb6917b3a7aTitle, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/afb6917b3a7a/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/afb6917b3a7a/render?view=1The draw-only view this page usesOpen
POST/mcpTool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agentsMax
curlMax
curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/afb6917b3a7a/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"
Claude CodeMax
claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.

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