AI

Tracking the state of AI across capability, scale, economics, adoption, infrastructure, and governance.

Last updated: Apr 1, 2026, 10:57 PM

Capability

Best MMLU Score

Capability

▲ 7.8%

Highest frontier score on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmark

97.9%

+7.1 % vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+8.8%

No data

Best GPQA Score

Capability

▲ 42.8%

Highest frontier score on graduate-level science reasoning questions

84.8%

+25.4 % vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+58.2%

Best SWE-bench Score

Capability

▲ 288.4%

Highest score resolving real GitHub issues autonomously

70.3%

+52.2 % vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+2400.0%

Scale and Efficiency

Frontier Training Compute

Scale and Efficiency

▲ 0.0%

Log₁₀ of FLOP used to train the largest frontier model each year

25.5log₁₀ FLOP

+0.0 log₁₀ FLOP vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+2.0%

No data

Algorithmic Efficiency Index

Scale and Efficiency

▲ 0.0%

Relative efficiency to reach a fixed capability threshold (2020 = 100, higher = more efficient)

1150index

+0 index vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+79.7%

No data

Notable AI Models Released

Scale and Efficiency

▲ 0.0%

Count of notable AI models released per year

97models

+0 models vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+15.5%

No data

Economics and Adoption

Private AI Investment

Economics and Adoption

▲ 19.3%

Global private investment into AI companies

$130B$B

+$21B $B vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+19.3%

Newly Funded AI Companies

Economics and Adoption

▲ 0.0%

Count of AI companies receiving investment for the first time

1270companies

+0 companies vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

-5.9%

No data

Firm AI Adoption

Economics and Adoption

▲ 8.3%

Share of firms reporting use of AI in business functions

78.0%

+6.0 % vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+8.3%

AI Job Postings Share

Economics and Adoption

▲ 22.6%

AI-related job postings as a share of all postings

3.8%

+0.7 % vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+22.6%

AI Patent Applications

Economics and Adoption

▲ 0.0%

Annual AI-related patent applications filed globally

410kthousands

+0k thousands vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+7.9%

No data

Infrastructure

Frontier Data Center Power

Infrastructure

▲ 181.8%

Cumulative estimated capacity of frontier AI data centers

62.0MW

+40.0 MW vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+313.3%

No data

Nvidia Data Center Revenue

Infrastructure

▲ 70.7%

Quarterly Nvidia data center revenue — primary proxy for AI chip demand

$45B$B

+$19B $B vs 2Y ago

Level

YoY %

+70.7%