2026 AI Brand Visibility Index: How 8 Major Brands Score in AI Search

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2026 AI Brand Visibility Index: How 8 Major Brands Score in AI Search We scanned 8 major brands across ChatGPT, Claude, Kimi, and DeepSeek to measure how visible they are in AI-generated recommendations. Here are the results. Methodology: Each brand is scored across 12 query scenarios - recommendation queries, comparison queries, trust queries, beginner queries, and direct brand queries. Discovery Score (60% weight) measures unprompted AI recommendations. Brand Score (40% weight) measures sentiment accuracy and narrative consistency. Combined score is 0-100.