Industrialization of Intelligence

Tracking how intelligence becomes a scalable economic input through revenue growth, infrastructure buildout, and capability gains. Most recent data from 4 days ago.

Key Insight

AI capability is scaling faster than the infrastructure being built to support it, and the gap is widening.

Generated by Claude on Apr 15, 2026
Exclude COVID

AI Revenue

Cloud AI & Compute Revenue

Combined quarterly revenue: AWS + Microsoft Intelligent Cloud + Google Cloud + Nvidia Data Center

▲ +41.2% YoY

$148.5B

Trend YoY growth is +41.2%, accelerating by 3.1 pp/year over the last 3Y. Latest: +38.3%, 3.0 pp below trend, a 0.40σ deviation.

Level

YoY %

y = 32.7% + 3.1 pp/yr · t

Deviation from trend

Frontier Lab Revenue

Combined estimated quarterly revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic.

▲ +166.2% YoY

$13.5B

Trend YoY growth is +166.2%, slowing by 179.7 pp/year over the last 2Y. Latest: +297.1%, 130.9 pp above trend, a 0.93σ deviation. The latest YoY reading is boosted by 122.1 pp due to an easy comparison base from Apr '25. At current levels, YoY would fall to +107.7% by Sep '26 as comparisons tighten.

Level

YoY %

y = 570.4% 179.7 pp/yr · t

Deviation from trend

Claude / ChatGPT YouTube Search Interest (US)

Ratio of YouTube search interest for Claude vs. ChatGPT (US) — a proxy for creator and viewer attention.

▲ +166.5% YoY

5.26×

Trend YoY growth is +166.5%, accelerating by 69.4 pp/year over the last 2Y. Deviations have remained above trend for 52 consecutive periods. Latest: +1177.4%, 1011.0 pp above trend, a 2.5σ deviation. The latest YoY reading is boosted by 126.5 pp due to an easy comparison base from Apr '25.

Level

YoY %

y = 23.4% + 69.4 pp/yr · t

Deviation from trend

Industrialization

Aggregate Hyperscaler Capex

Combined quarterly capital expenditure of Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta

▲ +104.4% YoY

$112.5B

Trend YoY growth is +104.4%, accelerating by 45.4 pp/year over the last 2Y. Latest: +111.9%, 7.4 pp above trend, a 0.70σ deviation. The latest YoY reading is depressed by 5.4 pp due to an tough comparison base from Jul '24.

Level

YoY %

y = −9.0% + 45.4 pp/yr · t

Deviation from trend

U.S. Commercial Electricity Sales

Quarterly U.S. commercial electricity sales — macro proxy for whether AI compute is becoming a physical load

▲ +6.5% YoY

130.2TWh

Trend YoY growth is +6.5%, accelerating by 1.6 pp/year over the last 5Y. Latest: +6.1%, 36 bps below trend, a 0.11σ deviation. The latest YoY reading is boosted by 73 bps due to an easy comparison base from Apr '24.

Level

YoY %

y = −1.8% + 1.6 pp/yr · t

Deviation from trend

Capability

Frontier 50% Task-Completion Time

How long a task can be (in minutes) for frontier models to complete it 50% of the time

▲ +589.8% YoY

11.98hours

Trend YoY growth is +589.8%, accelerating by 99.5 pp/year over the last 3Y. Latest: +1200.8%, 610.9 pp above trend, a 1.9σ deviation. The latest YoY reading is boosted by 52.5 pp due to an easy comparison base from Feb '25. At current levels, YoY would fall to +449.5% by Aug '26 as comparisons tighten.

Level

YoY %

y = 301.1% + 99.5 pp/yr · t

Deviation from trend

Best SWE-bench Verified Score

Highest score resolving real GitHub issues autonomously — core software engineering capability

▲ +17.2% YoY

93.9%

Trend YoY growth is +17.2%, slowing by 2353.7 pp/year over the last 2Y. Latest: +21.2%, 4.0 pp above trend, a 0.69σ deviation. At current levels, YoY would fall to +14.7% by Oct '26 as comparisons tighten.

Level

YoY Change (bps)

y = 54.0% 23.5 pp/yr · t

Deviation from trend