42%
US share of the 523,000 top AI authors and inventors identified across the 21 countries Zeki tracks, 2025
What the chart shows
Zeki identified 220,500 top AI authors and inventors in the United States in 2025, 42% of the 523,000 across the 21 countries it tracks. India (50,500) and Germany (48,500) follow, each with less than a quarter of the US total.
The United Kingdom (34,400) and Canada (31,400) form a second tier, then France (18,800). No other country tracked has more than 15,000.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| United States | 220,519 |
| India | 50,464 |
| Germany | 48,521 |
| United Kingdom | 34,367 |
| Canada | 31,447 |
| All 21 countries | 523,461 |
How to read it
- Zeki counts people with observable AI output, such as research papers, patents, datasets and models. This is a narrower group than the AI workforce.
- China is not covered: Zeki identifies talent outside China only, so the US share is of the 21 countries tracked, not of the world.
Source: Zeki Data, 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.8.1: Number of top AI authors and inventors by country, 2025. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.
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Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.
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