Theme 1 of 4 · 3 hubs · 26 topics
AI Progress
How capable AI has become, who builds it and the research behind it.
AI systems are closing in on people on the tests built to measure them: the best SWE-bench Verified score reached 98.7% of the human baseline in 2025, up from 64.3% a year earlier. Companies, not universities, now build almost all notable models (92% in 2025), and the US produced 64 of them to China's 35. Research keeps growing too, with 258,000 AI papers published in 2024.
AI Progress in six numbers
How we check every number →Each number links to its chart, its source and the data. Checked against the published data on 20 Oct 2026.
- 0198.7%The best SWE-bench Verified score reached 98.7% of the human baseline in 2025, up from 64.3%20242025View chart →
- 0266.3%The best AI agent completed 66.3% of OSWorld computer tasks in 2025, against 72.4% for people20242025View chart →
- 0364The US produced 64 notable AI models in 2025; China produced 35View chart →
- 0492%Industry's share of notable AI models rose from 15% in 2014 to 92% in 202520032025View chart →
- 05258KAI publications reached 258,000 in 2024, 41% of all computer science papers20132024View chart →
- 0674.2%China was granted 74% of the world's AI patents in 2024; the US 12%20102024View chart →
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All 13 hubs →Hub 1 of 3 · 41 charts
AI Benchmarks
How AI compares with humans on knowledge, reasoning, maths, coding and agent tests.
98.7%Best SWE-bench Verified score as a share of the human baseline, 2025Open AI Benchmarks 14 topics charts
- AI vs Human Performance1
- Chatbot Arena Leaderboard1
- AI Knowledge Benchmarks3
- AI Reasoning Benchmarks3
- AI Maths Benchmarks3
- AI Coding Benchmarks3
- AI Agent Benchmarks7
- Multilingual AI Benchmarks3
- Text Embedding Benchmarks1
- AI Image Understanding5
- AI Video Understanding3
- AI Video Generation2
- AI Finance Benchmarks4
- AI Legal Benchmarks2
Hub 2 of 3 · 27 charts
AI Models
Who builds notable AI models and how open they are.
64Notable AI models from US organisations in 2025, against 35 from ChinaOpen AI Models Hub 3 of 3 · 19 charts
AI Research
How much AI research is published, where and by whom.
258KAI publications worldwide in 2024, 40.9% of all computer science publicationsOpen AI Research Follow AI Progress
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All sources →The 87 charts in AI Progress come from the Stanford AI Index Report 2026 and the 33 organisations, surveys and leaderboards behind it. The number is how many charts in this theme use each source.
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