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  {
    "id": "global-ai-market-size-2030",
    "statistic": "The global AI market is projected to reach roughly $1.8 trillion by 2030",
    "value": "$1.81T",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Grand View Research",
    "source_url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/artificial-intelligence-market-to-hit-1-811-75-billion-by-2030-grand-view-research-inc-301868806.html",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "global-ai-market-size-2033",
    "statistic": "The global AI market could hit $3.5 trillion by 2033",
    "value": "$3.5T",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Grand View Research",
    "source_url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ai-market-poised-to-hit-3-5-trillion-by-2033--powered-by-31-5-annual-growth--grand-view-research-302621678.html",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "generative-ai-market-2033",
    "statistic": "The generative-AI market is forecast to grow from $22bn in 2025 to $325bn by 2033",
    "value": "$324.7B",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Grand View Research",
    "source_url": "https://www.grandviewresearch.com/press-release/global-generative-ai-market",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "enterprise-generative-ai-market-2030",
    "statistic": "The enterprise generative-AI market is set to reach nearly $20bn by 2030",
    "value": "$19.8B",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Grand View Research",
    "source_url": "https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/enterprise-generative-ai-market-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-agents-market-2030",
    "statistic": "The AI agents market is projected to reach $50bn by 2030",
    "value": "$50.3B",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Grand View Research",
    "source_url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ai-agents-market-size-to-hit-50-31-billion-by-2030-at-cagr-45-8---grand-view-research-inc-302447060.html",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "idc-ai-spending-2028",
    "statistic": "Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to reach $632 billion in 2028",
    "value": "$632B",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "IDC (Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide)",
    "source_url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240819177906/en/Worldwide-Spending-on-Artificial-Intelligence-Forecast-to-Reach-$632-Billion-in-2028-According-to-a-New-IDC-Spending-Guide",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "idc-genai-spending-2028",
    "statistic": "Generative-AI spending is expected to hit $202 billion by 2028",
    "value": "$202B",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "IDC (Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide)",
    "source_url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240819177906/en/Worldwide-Spending-on-Artificial-Intelligence-Forecast-to-Reach-$632-Billion-in-2028-According-to-a-New-IDC-Spending-Guide",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-private-ai-investment-2025",
    "statistic": "US private AI investment reached $285.9 billion in 2025",
    "value": "$285.9B",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Stanford HAI — AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "total-corporate-ai-investment-2024",
    "statistic": "Global corporate AI investment reached $252.3 billion in 2024",
    "value": "$252.3B",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Stanford HAI — AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "generative-ai-investment-2024",
    "statistic": "Generative AI attracted nearly $34 billion in private investment in 2024",
    "value": "$33.9B",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Stanford HAI — AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "orgs-using-ai-2025-mckinsey",
    "statistic": "88% of organizations now use AI in at least one business function",
    "value": "88%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "McKinsey — The State of AI 2025",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "orgs-using-ai-2024-hai",
    "statistic": "78% of organizations reported using AI in 2024, up from 55% a year earlier",
    "value": "78%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Stanford HAI — AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "orgs-using-genai-2024-hai",
    "statistic": "Enterprise generative-AI use more than doubled to 71% in 2024",
    "value": "71%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Stanford HAI — AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "eu-enterprises-ai-2025",
    "statistic": "20% of EU enterprises used AI in 2025, up from 13.5% in 2024",
    "value": "20%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Eurostat",
    "source_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251211-2",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "eu-enterprises-ai-2024",
    "statistic": "In 2024, 13.5% of EU enterprises used AI — but over 27% in Denmark",
    "value": "13.5%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Eurostat",
    "source_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Use_of_artificial_intelligence_in_enterprises",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-firms-ai-2026-census",
    "statistic": "Around 1 in 5 US businesses were using AI in early 2026",
    "value": "~20%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "US Census Bureau (Business Trends and Outlook Survey)",
    "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2026/05/ai-use-businesses.html",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-large-vs-small-firms-ai-2026",
    "statistic": "37% of large US firms use AI versus under 20% of the smallest firms",
    "value": "37% vs <20%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "US Census Bureau (Business Trends and Outlook Survey)",
    "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2026/05/ai-use-businesses.html",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "genai-value-concentration-functions",
    "statistic": "75% of generative AI's value lands in four business functions",
    "value": "75%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "McKinsey Global Institute",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-cost-revenue-impact-functions-2025",
    "statistic": "Software and IT teams report 10-20% cost cuts from AI; marketing sees 10%+ revenue lift",
    "value": "10-20%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "McKinsey — The State of AI 2025",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "pwc-ai-economic-impact-2030",
    "statistic": "AI could add $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030",
    "value": "$15.7T",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "PwC",
    "source_url": "https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/data-and-analytics/publications/artificial-intelligence-study.html",
    "date": "2017"
  },
  {
    "id": "mckinsey-genai-value-2-6-4-4T",
    "statistic": "Generative AI could add $2.6-4.4 trillion in value to the global economy annually",
    "value": "$2.6-4.4T",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "McKinsey Global Institute",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "gartner-agentic-software-2028",
    "statistic": "33% of enterprise software will include agentic AI by 2028",
    "value": "33%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Gartner",
    "source_url": "https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "gartner-agentic-decisions-2028",
    "statistic": "By 2028, 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously by agentic AI",
    "value": "15%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Gartner",
    "source_url": "https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "gartner-agentic-projects-cancelled-2027",
    "statistic": "Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be scrapped by the end of 2027",
    "value": "40%+",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Gartner",
    "source_url": "https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "mckinsey-agents-scaling-2025",
    "statistic": "23% of enterprises are already scaling AI agents in at least one function",
    "value": "23%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "McKinsey — The State of AI 2025",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "chatgpt-weekly-active-users",
    "statistic": "ChatGPT has passed 900 million weekly active users",
    "value": "900M",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "OpenAI",
    "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/chatgpt-reaches-900m-weekly-active-users",
    "date": "2026-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "chatgpt-800m-weekly-2025",
    "statistic": "ChatGPT reached ~800 million weekly users at OpenAI DevDay 2025",
    "value": "800M",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "OpenAI (Sam Altman, DevDay)",
    "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/chatgpt-reaches-900m-weekly-active-users",
    "date": "2025-10"
  },
  {
    "id": "chatgpt-time-to-100m-users",
    "statistic": "ChatGPT hit 100 million users in about two months",
    "value": "~2 months",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "UBS / Similarweb (via Reuters)",
    "source_url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/",
    "date": "2023-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "chatgpt-second-most-downloaded-app-2025",
    "statistic": "ChatGPT was the second most-downloaded app worldwide in 2025",
    "value": "#2",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Sensor Tower (State of Mobile 2026)",
    "source_url": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/21/sensor-towers-state-of-mobile-2026-tiktok-dominates-ai-apps-surge-games-lose-ground/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "chatgpt-paying-subscribers",
    "statistic": "ChatGPT has more than 50 million paying subscribers",
    "value": "50M+",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "OpenAI",
    "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/chatgpt-reaches-900m-weekly-active-users",
    "date": "2026-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "openai-annualized-revenue",
    "statistic": "OpenAI passed $10 billion in annualized revenue in mid-2025",
    "value": "$10B ARR",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "OpenAI (via CNBC)",
    "source_url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/openai-hits-10-billion-in-annualized-revenue-fueled-by-chatgpt-growth.html",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "chatgpt-top-use-cases",
    "statistic": "Three tasks make up about 77% of ChatGPT use",
    "value": "~77%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "OpenAI / NBER (Chatterji, Deming et al.)",
    "source_url": "https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34255/w34255.pdf",
    "date": "2025-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "chatgpt-non-work-share",
    "statistic": "About 73% of ChatGPT messages are non-work related",
    "value": "73%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "OpenAI / NBER",
    "source_url": "https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34255/w34255.pdf",
    "date": "2025-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "gemini-app-monthly-users",
    "statistic": "Google's Gemini app passed 650 million monthly users",
    "value": "650M+",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Google / Alphabet (Sundar Pichai)",
    "source_url": "https://9to5google.com/2025/10/29/gemini-app-650-million-users/",
    "date": "2025-10"
  },
  {
    "id": "meta-ai-monthly-users",
    "statistic": "Meta AI reached 1 billion monthly active users",
    "value": "1B",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Meta (Mark Zuckerberg)",
    "source_url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/zuckerberg-meta-ai-one-billion-monthly-users.html",
    "date": "2025-05"
  },
  {
    "id": "microsoft-365-copilot-seats",
    "statistic": "Microsoft 365 Copilot passed 20 million paid seats",
    "value": "20M+",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Microsoft (Q3 FY2026 earnings)",
    "source_url": "https://www.businessofapps.com/data/microsoft-copilot-statistics/",
    "date": "2026-04"
  },
  {
    "id": "deepseek-daily-active-users",
    "statistic": "DeepSeek reached an estimated 22 million daily users in January 2025",
    "value": "~22M DAU",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Third-party analytics estimate",
    "source_url": "https://electroiq.com/stats/deepseek-ai-statistics/",
    "date": "2025-01"
  },
  {
    "id": "grok-monthly-active-users",
    "statistic": "xAI's Grok reached an estimated 117 million monthly users",
    "value": "~117M",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "SpaceX IPO filing (via reports)",
    "source_url": "https://www.getpanto.ai/blog/grok-ai-statistics",
    "date": "2026-03"
  },
  {
    "id": "claude-monthly-users-estimate",
    "statistic": "Anthropic's Claude is estimated at 200M+ monthly users",
    "value": "~220M (est.)",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Third-party estimate (Sensor Tower / analytics)",
    "source_url": "https://www.demandsage.com/claude-ai-statistics/",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-us-adults-used-chatgpt-2025",
    "statistic": "34% of US adults had used ChatGPT in early 2025",
    "value": "34%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/25/34-of-us-adults-have-used-chatgpt-about-double-the-share-in-2023/",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-us-adults-used-chatgpt-2026",
    "statistic": "44% of US adults had used ChatGPT by early 2026",
    "value": "44%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-and-ai-2026-chatbots-smart-devices-and-views-on-impact/",
    "date": "2026-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-under-30-used-chatgpt-2025",
    "statistic": "58% of US adults under 30 had used ChatGPT in early 2025",
    "value": "58%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/25/34-of-us-adults-have-used-chatgpt-about-double-the-share-in-2023/",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-education-gradient-chatgpt-2025",
    "statistic": "ChatGPT use is far higher among college graduates",
    "value": "51% vs 18%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/25/34-of-us-adults-have-used-chatgpt-about-double-the-share-in-2023/",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "reuters-genai-weekly-usage-2025",
    "statistic": "34% of people worldwide use generative AI weekly",
    "value": "34%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025",
    "source_url": "https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2025/dnr-executive-summary",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "reuters-genai-age-gap-2025",
    "statistic": "59% of 18-24s used generative AI in the past week vs 20% of over-55s",
    "value": "59% vs 20%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025",
    "source_url": "https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2025/dnr-executive-summary",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "reuters-ai-for-news-2025",
    "statistic": "Only about 7% use AI chatbots for news each week",
    "value": "~7%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025",
    "source_url": "https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2025/dnr-executive-summary",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-teens-chatgpt-schoolwork",
    "statistic": "26% of US teens use ChatGPT for schoolwork",
    "value": "26%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/15/about-a-quarter-of-us-teens-have-used-chatgpt-for-schoolwork-double-the-share-in-2023/",
    "date": "2025-01"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-teens-ai-chatbots-schoolwork-2026",
    "statistic": "54% of US teens use AI chatbots for schoolwork",
    "value": "54%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/how-teens-use-and-view-ai/",
    "date": "2026-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "collegeboard-hs-genai-schoolwork",
    "statistic": "84% of US high schoolers had used generative AI for schoolwork by May 2025",
    "value": "84%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "College Board",
    "source_url": "https://newsroom.collegeboard.org/new-research-majority-high-school-students-use-generative-ai-schoolwork",
    "date": "2025-05"
  },
  {
    "id": "chatgpt-website-traffic",
    "statistic": "ChatGPT drew about 5.8 billion website visits a month in 2025",
    "value": "~5.8B/mo",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Similarweb",
    "source_url": "https://www.similarweb.com/blog/marketing/seo/most-used-ai/",
    "date": "2025-08"
  },
  {
    "id": "google-ai-overviews-monthly-users",
    "statistic": "Google AI Overviews reached 2 billion monthly users",
    "value": "2B",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Google / Alphabet (Sundar Pichai)",
    "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/googles-ai-overviews-have-2b-monthly-users-ai-mode-100m-in-the-us-and-india",
    "date": "2025-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-overviews-search-coverage",
    "statistic": "AI Overviews appear on roughly half of US Google searches",
    "value": "~48%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Third-party SEO tracking (estimate)",
    "source_url": "https://thestacc.com/blog/google-ai-overview-statistics/",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "global-corporate-ai-investment-2025",
    "statistic": "Global corporate AI investment reached $581.7B in 2025",
    "value": "$581.7B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "global-private-ai-investment-2025",
    "statistic": "Global private AI investment reached $344.7B in 2025",
    "value": "$344.7B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-private-ai-investment-2025",
    "statistic": "China's private AI investment was $12.4B in 2025",
    "value": "$12.4B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-china-ai-investment-gap-2025",
    "statistic": "US private AI investment was 23x China's in 2025",
    "value": "23x",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "generative-ai-investment-2025",
    "statistic": "Generative AI investment grew over 200% and took nearly half of private AI funding in 2025",
    "value": ">200% growth",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "newly-funded-us-ai-companies-2025",
    "statistic": "The US had 1,953 newly funded AI companies in 2025",
    "value": "1,953",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-share-global-vc-2025-crunchbase",
    "statistic": "AI took about half of all global venture funding in 2025",
    "value": "~50%",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Crunchbase (via Venture Capital Journal)",
    "source_url": "https://www.venturecapitaljournal.com/funding-for-ai-dominated-in-vc-in-2025-crunchbase/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-vc-funding-total-2025-crunchbase",
    "statistic": "Global venture funding to AI reached $211B in 2025",
    "value": "$211B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Crunchbase",
    "source_url": "https://www.venturecapitaljournal.com/funding-for-ai-dominated-in-vc-in-2025-crunchbase/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-share-vc-h1-2025-pitchbook",
    "statistic": "AI startups took 53% of global VC dollars in H1 2025",
    "value": "53%",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "PitchBook (via SiliconANGLE)",
    "source_url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/07/pitchbook-ai-dominates-global-venture-capital-2025-deal-value-nears-record/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "openai-40b-round-march-2025",
    "statistic": "OpenAI raised $40B in March 2025 — the largest private tech round ever",
    "value": "$40B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "OpenAI / CNBC",
    "source_url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/openai-closes-40-billion-in-funding-the-largest-private-fundraise-in-history-softbank-chatgpt.html",
    "date": "2025-03-31"
  },
  {
    "id": "openai-valuation-500b-oct-2025",
    "statistic": "OpenAI hit a $500B valuation in October 2025",
    "value": "$500B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Value Add VC (secondary-sale reporting)",
    "source_url": "https://valueaddvc.com/blog/openai-valuation-2026-852-billion-after-the-122b-raise",
    "date": "2025-10"
  },
  {
    "id": "openai-122b-round-march-2026",
    "statistic": "OpenAI raised $122B at an $852B valuation in early 2026",
    "value": "$122B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Value Add VC",
    "source_url": "https://valueaddvc.com/blog/openai-valuation-2026-852-billion-after-the-122b-raise",
    "date": "2026-03"
  },
  {
    "id": "anthropic-series-f-183b-sept-2025",
    "statistic": "Anthropic raised $13B at a $183B valuation in September 2025",
    "value": "$183B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Anthropic",
    "source_url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation",
    "date": "2025-09-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "anthropic-valuation-965b-may-2026",
    "statistic": "Anthropic reached a $965B valuation in May 2026, overtaking OpenAI",
    "value": "$965B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "CNBC",
    "source_url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-open-ai-startup-value.html",
    "date": "2026-05-28"
  },
  {
    "id": "xai-valuation-230b-jan-2026",
    "statistic": "xAI reached a ~$230B valuation in January 2026",
    "value": "$230B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Secondary reporting (BearBull / SentiSight)",
    "source_url": "https://www.bearbull.io/blog/Deep-Dive/AI-IPO-Race-2026",
    "date": "2026-01"
  },
  {
    "id": "mistral-valuation-14b-sept-2025",
    "statistic": "Mistral AI hit a $14B (EUR 12B) valuation in September 2025",
    "value": "$14B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Bloomberg",
    "source_url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/mistral-set-for-14-billion-valuation-with-new-funding-round",
    "date": "2025-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "ssi-valuation-32b-april-2025",
    "statistic": "Safe Superintelligence hit a $32B valuation in April 2025",
    "value": "$32B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "TechCrunch",
    "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/12/openai-co-founder-ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-reportedly-valued-at-32b",
    "date": "2025-04"
  },
  {
    "id": "meta-scale-ai-14b-june-2025",
    "statistic": "Meta invested $14.3B in Scale AI in June 2025",
    "value": "$14.3B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "CNBC",
    "source_url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/scale-ai-founder-wang-announces-exit-for-meta-part-of-14-billion-deal.html",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "big-tech-ai-capex-2025",
    "statistic": "Big Tech spent about $381B on capex in 2025",
    "value": "$381B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "CNBC",
    "source_url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-meta-amazon-ai-cash.html",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "big-tech-ai-capex-2026",
    "statistic": "Big Tech capex is projected to hit $725B in 2026, up 77%",
    "value": "$725B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Statista / Tom's Hardware",
    "source_url": "https://www.statista.com/chart/35046/capital-expenditure-of-meta-alphabet-amazon-and-microsoft/",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-unicorns-count-2025",
    "statistic": "There were 498 AI unicorns worth $2.7T by mid-2025",
    "value": "498",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "CB Insights (via Fortune)",
    "source_url": "https://fortune.com/2025/08/13/ai-creating-billionaire-boom-record-pace-now-498-ai-unicorns-worth-2-7-trillion/",
    "date": "2025-08"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-ma-deals-q2-2025",
    "statistic": "AI M&A hit a record 177 deals in Q2 2025",
    "value": "177 deals",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "CB Insights",
    "source_url": "https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/ai-trends-q2-2025/",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "foundational-ai-funding-q1-2026",
    "statistic": "Foundational-AI startup funding in Q1 2026 doubled all of 2025",
    "value": "2x all of 2025",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Crunchbase",
    "source_url": "https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/foundational-ai-startup-funding-doubled-openai-anthropic-xai-q1-2026/",
    "date": "2026-Q1"
  },
  {
    "id": "imf-jobs-exposed-global",
    "statistic": "AI could affect ~40% of jobs worldwide",
    "value": "~40%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "IMF (Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, Staff Discussion Note)",
    "source_url": "https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2024/01/14/Gen-AI-Artificial-Intelligence-and-the-Future-of-Work-542379",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "imf-jobs-exposed-advanced",
    "statistic": "~60% of jobs in advanced economies are exposed to AI",
    "value": "~60%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "IMF (Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work)",
    "source_url": "https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2024/01/14/Gen-AI-Artificial-Intelligence-and-the-Future-of-Work-542379",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "imf-jobs-exposed-emerging",
    "statistic": "Emerging markets ~40% and low-income economies ~26% exposed",
    "value": "~26%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "IMF (Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work)",
    "source_url": "https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2024/01/14/Gen-AI-Artificial-Intelligence-and-the-Future-of-Work-542379",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "ilo-jobs-exposed",
    "statistic": "1 in 4 jobs worldwide is exposed to generative AI",
    "value": "~25%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "ILO / NASK (Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure, Working Paper 140)",
    "source_url": "https://www.ilo.org/publications/generative-ai-and-jobs-refined-global-index-occupational-exposure",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "ilo-automation-vs-augmentation",
    "statistic": "In high-income countries, ~18% of jobs face augmentation vs ~6% automation",
    "value": "18.3% vs 5.5%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "ILO / NASK (Generative AI and Jobs, Working Paper 140)",
    "source_url": "https://www.ilo.org/publications/generative-ai-and-jobs-refined-global-index-occupational-exposure",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "ilo-clerical-most-exposed",
    "statistic": "Clerical work is the most exposed occupation to automation",
    "value": "Clerical roles",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "ILO / NASK (Generative AI and Jobs, Working Paper 140)",
    "source_url": "https://www.ilo.org/publications/generative-ai-and-jobs-refined-global-index-occupational-exposure",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "goldman-300m-jobs",
    "statistic": "AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation",
    "value": "300M",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "Goldman Sachs (The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth, Briggs & Kodnani)",
    "source_url": "https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/2023/03/27/d64e052b-0f6e-45d7-967b-d7be35fabd16.html",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "goldman-two-thirds-exposed",
    "statistic": "Two-thirds of US and European jobs are exposed to some AI automation",
    "value": "~66%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "Goldman Sachs (The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth)",
    "source_url": "https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/2023/03/27/d64e052b-0f6e-45d7-967b-d7be35fabd16.html",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "goldman-gdp-7pct",
    "statistic": "Generative AI could raise global GDP by ~7% over a decade",
    "value": "+7%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "Goldman Sachs (Generative AI could raise global GDP by 7%)",
    "source_url": "https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/generative-ai-could-raise-global-gdp-by-7-percent",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "wef-jobs-created-2030",
    "statistic": "170 million new jobs projected to be created by 2030",
    "value": "170M",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "World Economic Forum (Future of Jobs Report 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://www.weforum.org/press/2025/01/future-of-jobs-report-2025-78-million-new-job-opportunities-by-2030-but-urgent-upskilling-needed-to-prepare-workforces/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "wef-jobs-displaced-2030",
    "statistic": "92 million jobs projected to be displaced by 2030",
    "value": "92M",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "World Economic Forum (Future of Jobs Report 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://www.weforum.org/press/2025/01/future-of-jobs-report-2025-78-million-new-job-opportunities-by-2030-but-urgent-upskilling-needed-to-prepare-workforces/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "wef-net-jobs-2030",
    "statistic": "Net gain of 78 million jobs projected by 2030",
    "value": "+78M",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "World Economic Forum (Future of Jobs Report 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://www.weforum.org/press/2025/01/future-of-jobs-report-2025-78-million-new-job-opportunities-by-2030-but-urgent-upskilling-needed-to-prepare-workforces/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "wef-skills-change-2030",
    "statistic": "39% of workers' core skills will change by 2030",
    "value": "39%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "World Economic Forum (Future of Jobs Report 2025, Skills Outlook)",
    "source_url": "https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/in-full/3-skills-outlook/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "wef-reskill-plans",
    "statistic": "77% of employers plan to reskill and upskill workers for AI",
    "value": "77%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "World Economic Forum (Future of Jobs Report 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://www.weforum.org/press/2025/01/future-of-jobs-report-2025-78-million-new-job-opportunities-by-2030-but-urgent-upskilling-needed-to-prepare-workforces/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "wef-headcount-reduction",
    "statistic": "41% of employers expect to reduce headcount where AI can automate tasks",
    "value": "41%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "World Economic Forum (Future of Jobs Report 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://www.weforum.org/press/2025/01/future-of-jobs-report-2025-78-million-new-job-opportunities-by-2030-but-urgent-upskilling-needed-to-prepare-workforces/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "brynjolfsson-callcenter",
    "statistic": "Generative AI raised call-center productivity by 14% on average",
    "value": "+14%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond, Generative AI at Work (NBER / Quarterly Journal of Economics)",
    "source_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "brynjolfsson-novice-gain",
    "statistic": "Novice workers gained 34% in productivity from AI assistance",
    "value": "+34%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond, Generative AI at Work (NBER / QJE)",
    "source_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "github-copilot-coding",
    "statistic": "Developers with GitHub Copilot completed a coding task 55% faster",
    "value": "55% faster",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "GitHub / Microsoft Research (The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot)",
    "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06590",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "mckinsey-economic-value",
    "statistic": "Generative AI could add $2.6-4.4 trillion in value annually",
    "value": "$2.6-4.4T",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "McKinsey Global Institute (The economic potential of generative AI)",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "mckinsey-worktime-automatable",
    "statistic": "AI could automate work absorbing 60-70% of employees' time",
    "value": "60-70%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "McKinsey Global Institute (The economic potential of generative AI)",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "pwc-productivity-quadrupled",
    "statistic": "Productivity growth nearly quadrupled in the most AI-exposed industries",
    "value": "27% (from 7%)",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "PwC (2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer)",
    "source_url": "https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/news-room/press-releases/2025/ai-linked-to-a-fourfold-increase-in-productivity-growth.html",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "pwc-wage-premium",
    "statistic": "Jobs requiring AI skills carry a 56% wage premium",
    "value": "+56%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "PwC (2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer)",
    "source_url": "https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/news-room/press-releases/2025/ai-linked-to-a-fourfold-increase-in-productivity-growth.html",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "stanford-org-adoption",
    "statistic": "78% of organizations reported using AI in 2024",
    "value": "78%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "Stanford HAI (AI Index Report 2025, Economy chapter)",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/assets/files/hai_ai-index-report-2025_chapter4_final.pdf",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "workers-using-ai",
    "statistic": "About 39% of employed workers report using AI on the job",
    "value": "~39%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Liberty Street Economics, Survey of Consumer Expectations)",
    "source_url": "https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/04/use-of-gen-ai-in-the-workplace-and-the-value-of-access-to-training/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "anthropic-augmentation-automation",
    "statistic": "57% of AI work tasks are augmentation, 43% automation",
    "value": "57% vs 43%",
    "category": "jobs",
    "source": "Anthropic (Anthropic Economic Index)",
    "source_url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-incidents-2024",
    "statistic": "AI incidents reached a new record in 2024",
    "value": "233",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026 (AI Incident Database)",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/responsible-ai",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-incidents-2025",
    "statistic": "Reported AI incidents jumped 55% in a single year",
    "value": "362",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026 (AI Incident Database)",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/responsible-ai",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "rai-no-policy-2025",
    "statistic": "Fewer organisations operate with no responsible-AI policy",
    "value": "11%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/responsible-ai",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "researcher-extinction-median-2023",
    "statistic": "AI researchers put a 5% median chance on human extinction",
    "value": "5%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "AI Impacts / Grace et al., 'Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI' (2024, surveyed 2023)",
    "source_url": "https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thousands_of_AI_authors_on_the_future_of_AI.pdf",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "researcher-10pct-extinction-2023",
    "statistic": "Many AI researchers give double-digit odds to catastrophe",
    "value": "37.8–51.4%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "AI Impacts / Grace et al., 'Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI' (2024, surveyed 2023)",
    "source_url": "https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thousands_of_AI_authors_on_the_future_of_AI.pdf",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "edelman-trust-ai-companies-global-2025",
    "statistic": "Global trust in AI companies has slid to 53%",
    "value": "53%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "2025 Edelman Trust Barometer",
    "source_url": "https://www.edelman.com/trust/2025/trust-barometer",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "edelman-trust-ai-companies-us-2025",
    "statistic": "Only about a third of Americans trust AI companies",
    "value": "35%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "2025 Edelman Trust Barometer",
    "source_url": "https://www.edelman.com/trust/2025/trust-barometer",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-concerned-vs-excited-us-2025",
    "statistic": "Half of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI",
    "value": "50%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and-society/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-societal-risk-high-2025",
    "statistic": "A majority rate AI's societal risks as high",
    "value": "57%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and-society/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-want-more-control-2025",
    "statistic": "Most Americans want more control over how AI is used",
    "value": "~60%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and-society/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-regulation-not-far-enough-2025",
    "statistic": "Americans fear regulators won't go far enough on AI",
    "value": "~60%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-low-confidence-govt-2025",
    "statistic": "Few Americans trust government to regulate AI well",
    "value": "62%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "pew-global-concern-median-2025",
    "statistic": "Concern about AI outweighs excitement worldwide",
    "value": "34%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Pew Research Center",
    "source_url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/10/15/how-people-around-the-world-view-ai/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "eu-ai-act-fine-prohibited",
    "statistic": "Banned AI uses can trigger €35M fines under the EU AI Act",
    "value": "€35M / 7%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "EU Artificial Intelligence Act, Article 99 (Penalties)",
    "source_url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/99/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "eu-ai-act-gpai-2025",
    "statistic": "General-purpose AI rules took effect in August 2025",
    "value": "2 Aug 2025",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "EU Artificial Intelligence Act (implementation timeline)",
    "source_url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/99/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-state-ai-bills-2025",
    "statistic": "US state legislatures flooded 2025 with AI bills",
    "value": "1,208",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), 2025 AI legislation tracker",
    "source_url": "https://www.ncsl.org/technology-and-communication/artificial-intelligence-2025-legislation",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-state-deepfake-laws-2025",
    "statistic": "Most US states now have deepfake laws on the books",
    "value": "47",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "MultiState (deepfake legislation tracker)",
    "source_url": "https://www.multistate.us/insider/2026/2/12/how-ai-generated-content-laws-are-changing-across-the-country",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-take-it-down-act-2025",
    "statistic": "The first US federal AI-content law targets deepfakes",
    "value": "May 2025",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "US Public Law 119-12 (TAKE IT DOWN Act)",
    "source_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/146",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "colorado-first-ai-law-2024",
    "statistic": "Colorado passed the first comprehensive US state AI law",
    "value": "2024",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Colorado General Assembly (SB 24-205)",
    "source_url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-205",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "datacentre-electricity-2024",
    "statistic": "Data centres used about 415 TWh of electricity in 2024",
    "value": "415 TWh",
    "category": "energy",
    "source": "IEA, Energy and AI (2025)",
    "source_url": "https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/executive-summary",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "datacentre-electricity-2030-proj",
    "statistic": "Data-centre power use is projected to double by 2030",
    "value": "~945 TWh",
    "category": "energy",
    "source": "IEA, Energy and AI (2025) — projection",
    "source_url": "https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/executive-summary",
    "date": "2030"
  },
  {
    "id": "datacentre-ai-servers-growth-proj",
    "statistic": "AI servers drive nearly half of data-centre demand growth",
    "value": "~30%/yr",
    "category": "energy",
    "source": "IEA, Energy and AI (2025) — projection",
    "source_url": "https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-demand-from-ai",
    "date": "2030"
  },
  {
    "id": "datacentre-emissions-2024",
    "statistic": "Data centres emitted about 180 Mt of CO2 in 2024",
    "value": "180 Mt",
    "category": "energy",
    "source": "IEA, Energy and AI (2025)",
    "source_url": "https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/executive-summary",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "deepfakes-4x-2024",
    "statistic": "Deepfakes detected worldwide quadrupled in a year",
    "value": "4x",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Sumsub (Identity Fraud research, 2024)",
    "source_url": "https://sumsub.com/newsroom/deepfake-cases-surge-in-countries-holding-2024-elections-sumsub-research-shows/",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "deepfakes-us-election-surge-2024",
    "statistic": "Deepfakes surged before the 2024 US elections",
    "value": "303%",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Sumsub (Identity Fraud research, Q1 2024)",
    "source_url": "https://sumsub.com/newsroom/deepfake-cases-surge-in-countries-holding-2024-elections-sumsub-research-shows/",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "notable-models-all-time",
    "statistic": "Epoch AI tracks more than 1,000 notable AI models ever built",
    "value": "1,040",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Epoch AI — Notable AI Models",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data/ai-models",
    "date": "2026-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "frontier-models-count",
    "statistic": "About 123 models qualify as frontier by Epoch's compute bar",
    "value": "123",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Epoch AI — Notable AI Models",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data/ai-models",
    "date": "2026-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "open-vs-closed-models",
    "statistic": "Closed models still outnumber open-weight ones since 2020",
    "value": "262 open / 313 closed",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Epoch AI — Notable AI Models",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data/ai-models",
    "date": "2026-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-china-model-output",
    "statistic": "The US produced far more notable models than China",
    "value": "386 vs 149",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Epoch AI — Notable AI Models",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data/ai-models",
    "date": "2026-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "models-2024-us-vs-china",
    "statistic": "US labs shipped 40 notable models in 2024, China 15",
    "value": "40 vs 15",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "models-from-industry",
    "statistic": "Nearly all notable models now come from industry, not academia",
    "value": "90%",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "models-over-1e25-flop",
    "statistic": "At least 33 models have been trained at GPT-4 scale or beyond",
    "value": "33",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/models-over-1e25-flop",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "biggest-training-run",
    "statistic": "Grok-3 is the largest known training run at about 4.6e26 FLOP",
    "value": "4.6e26 FLOP",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/models-over-1e25-flop",
    "date": "2025-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "training-compute-growth",
    "statistic": "AI training compute has grown roughly 4x per year since 2010",
    "value": "4.1x/yr",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/blog/training-compute-of-frontier-ai-models-grows-by-4-5x-per-year",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "frontier-compute-doubling",
    "statistic": "Frontier-model training compute doubles about every five months",
    "value": "5x/yr",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/blog/training-compute-of-frontier-ai-models-grows-by-4-5x-per-year",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "training-power-doubling",
    "statistic": "The power needed to train frontier models is doubling every year",
    "value": "~2x/yr",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/power-usage-trend",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "gpt4-training-cost",
    "statistic": "Training GPT-4 cost an estimated $78 million in compute",
    "value": "~$78M",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI (via Stanford HAI AI Index 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "gemini-ultra-cost",
    "statistic": "Google's Gemini Ultra cost roughly $191 million to train",
    "value": "~$191M",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI (via Stanford HAI AI Index 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "llama-405b-cost",
    "statistic": "Meta's Llama 3.1 405B cost about $170 million to train",
    "value": "~$170M",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI (via Stanford HAI AI Index 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "grok4-training-cost",
    "statistic": "xAI's Grok 4 training run cost an estimated $490 million",
    "value": "~$490M",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/grok-4-training-resources",
    "date": "2025-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "grok4-electricity",
    "statistic": "Training Grok 4 used about 310 gigawatt-hours of electricity",
    "value": "310 GWh",
    "category": "energy",
    "source": "Epoch AI",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/grok-4-training-resources",
    "date": "2025-09"
  },
  {
    "id": "training-cost-growth",
    "statistic": "The cost of the largest training runs grows about 2.4x a year",
    "value": "2.4x/yr",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-train-frontier-ai-models",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "inference-cost-decline",
    "statistic": "The cost of AI inference fell over 280-fold in about 18 months",
    "value": "280x cheaper",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "largest-ai-datacenter",
    "statistic": "xAI's Colossus 2 is the largest AI data centre by installed compute",
    "value": "~1.11M H100e",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI — Data Centers",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data",
    "date": "2026-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "largest-training-cluster",
    "statistic": "xAI's Colossus Memphis cluster reached ~276,000 H100-equivalents",
    "value": "275,796 H100e",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI — GPU Clusters",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data",
    "date": "2025-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "nvidia-installed-h100e",
    "statistic": "Nvidia accounts for over 18 million H100-equivalents of AI compute",
    "value": "18.1M H100e",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/data",
    "date": "2026-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "nvidia-datacenter-revenue",
    "statistic": "Nvidia's data-centre revenue hit a record $115 billion in FY2025",
    "value": "$115.2B",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Nvidia (Q4/FY2025 results)",
    "source_url": "https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2025",
    "date": "2025-02"
  },
  {
    "id": "semiconductor-sales-2025",
    "statistic": "Global chip sales hit a record $791.7 billion in 2025",
    "value": "$791.7B",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)",
    "source_url": "https://www.semiconductors.org/global-annual-semiconductor-sales-increase-25-6-to-791-7-billion-in-2025/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "asml-euv-monopoly",
    "statistic": "ASML is the sole maker of the EUV machines that print AI chips",
    "value": "100%",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "ASML / Counterpoint Research",
    "source_url": "https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/asml-2025-revenue-up-16-yoy-as-strong-euv-shipments-boost-systems-and-service-performance",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "tsmc-cowos-capacity",
    "statistic": "TSMC is racing to expand the CoWoS packaging AI chips depend on",
    "value": "~120-130K wpm",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "TrendForce",
    "source_url": "https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/06/15/news-tsmc-cowos-supply-demand-gap-reportedly-seen-narrowing-from-20-to-10-by-end-2026-as-capacity-expands/",
    "date": "2026-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "hbm-price-hike-2026",
    "statistic": "HBM memory is so scarce that suppliers are raising prices ~20%",
    "value": "~20%",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "TrendForce",
    "source_url": "https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/24/news-samsung-sk-hynix-reportedly-plan-20-hbm3e-price-hike-for-2026-as-nvidia-h200-asic-demand-rises/",
    "date": "2025-12"
  },
  {
    "id": "gpqa-diamond-record",
    "statistic": "Top models now score around 87% on the hard GPQA science benchmark",
    "value": "87%",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Epoch AI — Benchmarks",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/gpqa-diamond",
    "date": "2025-07"
  },
  {
    "id": "swe-bench-jump",
    "statistic": "AI coding scores leapt from 4% to 72% on SWE-bench in one year",
    "value": "4.4% to 71.7%",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "frontiermath-hard-benchmark",
    "statistic": "FrontierMath is the benchmark built to stay hard for AI",
    "value": "338 problems",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Epoch AI — Benchmarks",
    "source_url": "https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/frontiermath-tier-4-v2",
    "date": "2026-06"
  },
  {
    "id": "open-closed-gap-narrowed",
    "statistic": "Open-weight models nearly closed the gap with closed ones",
    "value": "8.0% to 1.7%",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "context-window-record",
    "statistic": "The largest published context window is 10 million tokens",
    "value": "10M tokens",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Meta (Llama 4 announcement)",
    "source_url": "https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/",
    "date": "2025-04"
  },
  {
    "id": "agentic-time-horizon",
    "statistic": "The task length AI can do solo is doubling about every 7 months",
    "value": "~7 months",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "METR",
    "source_url": "https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/",
    "date": "2025-03"
  },
  {
    "id": "fda-ai-medical-devices",
    "statistic": "The FDA has authorized more than 1,200 AI-enabled medical devices",
    "value": "1,200+",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "US FDA / Stanford HAI AI Index",
    "source_url": "https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/software-medical-device-samd/artificial-intelligence-enabled-medical-devices",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "masai-cancer-detection",
    "statistic": "AI-supported mammography detected 29% more breast cancers",
    "value": "+29%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "The Lancet Oncology (MASAI trial)",
    "source_url": "https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(23)00298-X/abstract",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "alphafold-protein-structures",
    "statistic": "AlphaFold has predicted structures for over 200 million proteins",
    "value": "200M+",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Google DeepMind / EMBL-EBI",
    "source_url": "https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "insilico-ai-drug-phase2",
    "statistic": "The first AI-designed drug improved lung function in a Phase IIa trial",
    "value": "+98 mL",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Nature Medicine / Insilico Medicine",
    "source_url": "https://insilico.com/news/tnrecuxsc1-insilico-announces-nature-medicine-publi",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "physicians-using-ai",
    "statistic": "Two in three US physicians now use AI in their practice",
    "value": "66%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "American Medical Association (AMA)",
    "source_url": "https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital-health/2-3-physicians-are-using-health-ai-78-2023",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "banks-using-ai-uk",
    "statistic": "About 75% of UK financial firms now use AI",
    "value": "75%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Bank of England / FCA",
    "source_url": "https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/report/2024/artificial-intelligence-in-uk-financial-services-2024",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "insurance-ai-adoption-uk",
    "statistic": "AI adoption reaches 95% among UK insurers",
    "value": "95%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Bank of England / FCA",
    "source_url": "https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/report/2024/artificial-intelligence-in-uk-financial-services-2024",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "mckinsey-banking-genai-value",
    "statistic": "Generative AI could add $200-340bn a year to banking",
    "value": "$200-340B",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "McKinsey & Company",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "mastercard-ai-fraud-detection",
    "statistic": "Generative AI lifted Mastercard's fraud detection by up to 300%",
    "value": "+20%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Mastercard",
    "source_url": "https://www.mastercard.com/us/en/news-and-trends/press/2024/february/mastercard-supercharges-consumer-protection-with-gen-ai.html",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "legal-ai-hours-saved",
    "statistic": "AI is set to free up around 240 hours a year for lawyers",
    "value": "240 hrs",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Thomson Reuters Institute",
    "source_url": "https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/technology/future-of-professionals-2025/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "legal-ai-hallucination",
    "statistic": "Leading legal-AI tools hallucinate 17-33% of the time",
    "value": "17-33%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Stanford RegLab / HAI",
    "source_url": "https://reglab.stanford.edu/publications/hallucination-free-assessing-the-reliability-of-leading-ai-legal-research-tools/",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "legal-ai-transformational-impact",
    "statistic": "80% of legal and tax professionals expect AI to be transformational",
    "value": "80%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Thomson Reuters Institute",
    "source_url": "https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/technology/future-of-professionals-2025/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "mckinsey-retail-genai-value",
    "statistic": "Generative AI could add $240-390bn a year to retail",
    "value": "$240-390B",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "McKinsey & Company",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "retail-genai-readiness",
    "statistic": "55% of retailers are ready to deploy generative AI now",
    "value": "55%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Google Cloud / NRF",
    "source_url": "https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/retail/nrf-2024-google-cloud-generative-ai-retail-survey",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "retail-consumers-ai-shopping",
    "statistic": "45% of consumers now use AI during their shopping journey",
    "value": "45%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "IBM / NRF",
    "source_url": "https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-01-07-ibm-nrf-study-brands-and-retailers-navigate-a-new-reality-as-ai-shapes-consumer-decisions-before-shopping-begins",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "robot-density-south-korea",
    "statistic": "South Korea has 1,012 robots per 10,000 factory workers",
    "value": "1,012",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "International Federation of Robotics (IFR)",
    "source_url": "https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/global-robot-density-in-factories-doubled-in-seven-years",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "global-robot-density",
    "statistic": "Global factory robot density has doubled in seven years to 162",
    "value": "162",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "International Federation of Robotics (IFR)",
    "source_url": "https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/global-robot-density-in-factories-doubled-in-seven-years",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "predictive-maintenance-downtime",
    "statistic": "AI predictive maintenance can cut equipment downtime by up to 50%",
    "value": "-50%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "McKinsey & Company",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/establishing-the-right-analytics-based-maintenance-strategy",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "wef-lighthouse-factories",
    "statistic": "189 factories make up the WEF Global Lighthouse Network",
    "value": "189",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "World Economic Forum",
    "source_url": "https://www.weforum.org/press/2025/01/global-lighthouse-network-2025-world-economic-forum-recognizes-companies-transforming-manufacturing-through-innovation/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "students-using-ai",
    "statistic": "Around 9 in 10 UK students use generative AI for their studies",
    "value": "88%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI)",
    "source_url": "https://www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/student-generative-ai-survey-2025/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "teachers-using-ai",
    "statistic": "Six in ten US teachers used AI in the 2024-25 school year",
    "value": "60%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Gallup / Walton Family Foundation",
    "source_url": "https://news.gallup.com/poll/691967/three-teachers-weekly-saving-six-weeks-year.aspx",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "cs-education-expansion",
    "statistic": "Two-thirds of countries offer or plan K-12 computer-science education",
    "value": "2/3",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2025",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "klarna-ai-customer-service",
    "statistic": "Klarna's AI assistant does the work of 700 support agents",
    "value": "700",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Klarna",
    "source_url": "https://www.klarna.com/international/press/klarna-ai-assistant-handles-two-thirds-of-customer-service-chats-in-its-first-month/",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "marketing-sales-genai-adoption",
    "statistic": "Gen-AI use in marketing and sales more than doubled in a year",
    "value": "2x",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "McKinsey & Company",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai-2024",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "genai-customer-ops-productivity",
    "statistic": "Gen AI can lift customer-service productivity by up to 45%",
    "value": "+30-45%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "McKinsey & Company",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-notable-models-2025",
    "statistic": "The United States released the most notable AI models in 2025",
    "value": "50",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/research-and-development",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-notable-models-2025",
    "statistic": "China released 35 notable AI models in 2025, closing the gap on the US",
    "value": "35",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/research-and-development",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "europe-notable-models-2025",
    "statistic": "Europe produced just 2 notable AI models in 2025",
    "value": "2",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/research-and-development",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-china-model-gap-2026",
    "statistic": "The top US model now leads China's best by just 2.7%",
    "value": "2.7%",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/technical-performance",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-ai-publications-lead",
    "statistic": "China leads the world in AI publication volume and citations",
    "value": "#1",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/research-and-development",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-top-cited-papers-2024",
    "statistic": "China now authors 41 of the 100 most-cited AI papers",
    "value": "41 of 100",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/research-and-development",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "india-ai-publications-share",
    "statistic": "India has become the leading Asian contributor to AI research after China",
    "value": "≈12%",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Al-Marzouqi et al. (2024), Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies",
    "source_url": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2024/1689353",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-genai-patents-wipo",
    "statistic": "China has filed six times more generative-AI patents than the US",
    "value": "38,000+",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "WIPO (Patent Landscape Report: Generative AI)",
    "source_url": "https://intellectual-property-helpdesk.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/wipo-patent-landscape-report-generative-artificial-intelligence-2024-07-10_en",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "south-korea-ai-patents-per-capita",
    "statistic": "South Korea leads the world in AI patents per capita",
    "value": "#1",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/research-and-development",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-industrial-robots-lead",
    "statistic": "China installs more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined",
    "value": ">50%",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/economy",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-china-investment-23x",
    "statistic": "US private AI investment is 23 times China's",
    "value": "23x",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/economy",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "cumulative-ai-investment-by-country",
    "statistic": "The US has raised more AI capital than the rest of the world combined",
    "value": "$471B",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/economy",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-newly-funded-ai-companies-2025",
    "statistic": "The US funded more than 10 times as many new AI companies as any rival",
    "value": "1,953",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/economy",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "microsoft-india-investment-2025",
    "statistic": "Microsoft alone committed $17.5bn to AI in India",
    "value": "$17.5B",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Microsoft",
    "source_url": "https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/2025/12/09/microsoft-invests-us17-5-billion-in-india-to-drive-ai-diffusion-at-population-scale/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "countries-national-ai-strategy",
    "statistic": "Over 60 countries have adopted a national AI strategy",
    "value": "60+",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "OECD.AI",
    "source_url": "https://oecd.ai/en/dashboards/national",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "legislative-ai-mentions-2024",
    "statistic": "AI mentions in legislatures rose 21% across 75 countries",
    "value": "1,889",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Stanford HAI AI Index 2026",
    "source_url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/policy-and-governance",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "eu-ai-act-first-comprehensive",
    "statistic": "The EU AI Act is the world's first comprehensive AI law",
    "value": "1st",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "European Commission",
    "source_url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "eu-ai-act-prohibited-inforce-2025",
    "statistic": "The EU has banned 'unacceptable-risk' AI since February 2025",
    "value": "2 Feb 2025",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "European Commission",
    "source_url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/implementation-timeline/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "eu-ai-act-highrisk-deferred-2027",
    "statistic": "The EU delayed its high-risk AI rules to December 2027",
    "value": "Dec 2027",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "European Commission (Digital Omnibus)",
    "source_url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/implementation-timeline/",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-ai-action-plan-2025",
    "statistic": "Trump's AI Action Plan sets out 90 federal policy actions",
    "value": "90",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "The White House",
    "source_url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-federal-ai-framework-eo-2025",
    "statistic": "A December 2025 executive order pushes a single national AI framework",
    "value": "Dec 2025",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "The White House",
    "source_url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/12/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ensures-a-national-policy-framework-for-artificial-intelligence/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-genai-interim-measures-2023",
    "statistic": "China was first to regulate generative AI at national level",
    "value": "Aug 2023",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Cyberspace Administration of China",
    "source_url": "https://www.whitecase.com/insight-our-thinking/ai-watch-global-regulatory-tracker-china",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-ai-labeling-2025",
    "statistic": "China now requires all AI-generated content to be labelled",
    "value": "1 Sep 2025",
    "category": "safety",
    "source": "Cyberspace Administration of China",
    "source_url": "https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/ai-labeling/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "github-copilot-users-2025",
    "statistic": "GitHub Copilot has passed 20 million users",
    "value": "20M+",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Microsoft / GitHub (FY25 Q4 earnings)",
    "source_url": "https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/31/github-copilot-now-has-over-20-million-users/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "github-copilot-fortune100-2025",
    "statistic": "90% of the Fortune 100 use GitHub Copilot",
    "value": "90%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Microsoft / GitHub",
    "source_url": "https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/31/github-copilot-now-has-over-20-million-users/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "microsoft-ai-generated-code-2025",
    "statistic": "Up to 30% of Microsoft's code is now AI-generated",
    "value": "~30%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Microsoft (Satya Nadella, LlamaCon 2025)",
    "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "gallup-us-workers-ai-2025",
    "statistic": "45% of US workers now use AI on the job",
    "value": "45%",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Gallup",
    "source_url": "https://www.gallup.com/workplace/699689/ai-use-at-work-rises.aspx",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "google-ai-mode-users-2025",
    "statistic": "Google's AI Mode reached 100 million monthly users",
    "value": "100M",
    "category": "usage",
    "source": "Alphabet / Google (Q2 2025 earnings)",
    "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/googles-ai-overviews-have-2b-monthly-users-ai-mode-100m-in-the-us-and-india/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "federal-ai-use-cases",
    "statistic": "US federal agencies reported 2,133 AI use cases in 2024",
    "value": "2,133",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "OMB — 2024 Federal AI Use Case Inventory",
    "source_url": "https://github.com/ombegov/2024-Federal-AI-Use-Case-Inventory",
    "date": "2024"
  },
  {
    "id": "precision-ag-large-farms",
    "statistic": "70% of large US crop farms now use GPS auto-guidance",
    "value": "70%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "USDA Economic Research Service (2023 ARMS)",
    "source_url": "https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/110550",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "genai-marketing-sales-value",
    "statistic": "Gen AI could add up to $1.2 trillion a year to sales and marketing",
    "value": "$0.8–1.2T",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "McKinsey — Economic Potential of Generative AI (2023)",
    "source_url": "https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "customer-support-productivity",
    "statistic": "AI raised customer-support productivity by 14% on average",
    "value": "14%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Brynjolfsson et al., NBER WP 31161",
    "source_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "customer-support-novice-gain",
    "statistic": "The least-experienced support agents gained 34% from AI",
    "value": "34%",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Brynjolfsson et al., NBER WP 31161",
    "source_url": "https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161",
    "date": "2023"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-tutoring-learning-gains",
    "statistic": "AI-tutored students learned about twice as much",
    "value": "2×",
    "category": "industry",
    "source": "Kestin et al., Scientific Reports / Harvard (2025)",
    "source_url": "https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/09/professor-tailored-ai-tutor-to-physics-course-engagement-doubled/",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-share-ai-compute",
    "statistic": "The United States holds roughly three-quarters of the world's AI computing power",
    "value": "~75%",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI / Affärslivet AI Compute Index",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/ai-compute-index",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "ai-compute-top5-share",
    "statistic": "The top 5 economies hold about 92% of the world's AI compute",
    "value": "92%",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Affärslivet AI Compute Index",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/ai-compute-index",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "nvidia-compute-share",
    "statistic": "Nvidia has shipped about 70% of all AI compute ever deployed",
    "value": "~70%",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI (via Affärslivet)",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/biggest-ai-data-centers",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "largest-ai-data-center",
    "statistic": "The world's largest AI data centre draws about 946 MW of power",
    "value": "946 MW",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Epoch AI (via Affärslivet)",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/biggest-ai-data-centers",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "openai-most-funded",
    "statistic": "OpenAI is the most-funded AI company, having raised about $183 billion",
    "value": "$183B",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Epoch AI (via Affärslivet)",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/largest-ai-companies",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "two-labs-funding-share",
    "statistic": "Just two labs — OpenAI and Anthropic — hold most of all AI-lab funding",
    "value": "2 labs",
    "category": "investment",
    "source": "Affärslivet — The Largest AI Companies",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/largest-ai-companies",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-leads-national-ai-power",
    "statistic": "The United States ranks #1 on overall national AI power; Sweden ranks #12",
    "value": "#1 US",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Affärslivet National AI Power Index",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/national-ai-power-index",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-most-ai-publications",
    "statistic": "China leads the world in AI research output with about 116,000 publications",
    "value": "116k",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Our World in Data / OpenAlex (via Affärslivet)",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/countries-leading-ai-models",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "us-china-model-gap",
    "statistic": "The US produces the most notable and frontier AI models; China leads on volume of research",
    "value": "US vs China",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Affärslivet — Countries Leading in AI",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/countries-leading-ai-models",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "eu-enterprise-ai-adoption",
    "statistic": "About 20% of EU enterprises used at least one AI technology in 2025",
    "value": "19.9%",
    "category": "market",
    "source": "Eurostat (via Affärslivet)",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/enterprise-ai-adoption-europe",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "nordics-lead-adoption",
    "statistic": "The Nordics lead Europe on enterprise AI adoption but build almost no frontier models",
    "value": "0 frontier",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "Affärslivet — Sweden & Nordic AI",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/sweden-nordic-ai",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "best-gpqa-score",
    "statistic": "The best AI models now score over 90% on graduate-level science questions (GPQA Diamond)",
    "value": "93%",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (via Affärslivet)",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/ai-model-benchmarks",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "frontiermath-unsolved",
    "statistic": "Even the best AI models solve only about a third of research-level maths problems (FrontierMath)",
    "value": "~32%",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (via Affärslivet)",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/ai-model-benchmarks",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "china-open-weights",
    "statistic": "China releases far more of its AI models as open-weight than the United States",
    "value": "CN > US",
    "category": "models",
    "source": "Affärslivet Open-Source AI Index",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/open-source-ai-index",
    "date": "2026"
  },
  {
    "id": "tsmc-foundry-share",
    "statistic": "TSMC manufactures about 70% of the world's chips and over 90% of leading-edge AI chips",
    "value": "~70%",
    "category": "compute",
    "source": "Affärslivet — AI Chips & Semiconductors",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/ai-chips-semiconductors",
    "date": "2025"
  },
  {
    "id": "silo-ai-acquisition",
    "statistic": "AMD acquired Finland's Silo AI — Europe's largest private AI lab — for about $665 million",
    "value": "$665M",
    "category": "geography",
    "source": "AMD (via Affärslivet)",
    "source_url": "https://xn--affrslivet-s5a.com/en/reports/sweden-nordic-ai-companies",
    "date": "2024-07"
  }
]