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# US-based AI projects have collected 30 million GitHub stars, twice any other region
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/github-stars-by-region/
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:31:08.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:25.000Z
- Description: US-based AI projects have collected 30 million GitHub stars, about twice the rest of the world (15.3M) or Europe (13.0M), despite a falling share of projects.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Models, Open Source AI, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-models, #country-us

30M

▲ 38% vs 2024

cumulative GitHub stars on US-based AI projects by 2025, against 15.3M for the rest of the world and 13.0M for Europe

20112025

## What the chart shows

Although the US share of projects has fallen ([related chart](https://aiadoption.org/data/github-ai-projects-by-region/)), US-based AI projects have collected 30.0 million stars in total, about twice the rest of the world (15.3 million) and more than twice Europe (13.0 million). China has 9.0 million and India 2.5 million.

Open-source AI activity is spreading geographically, but the projects that draw the most attention remain disproportionately American.

## Key numbers

| Measure           | Value |
| ----------------- | ----- |
| United States     | 30.0M |
| Rest of the world | 15.3M |
| Europe            | 13.0M |
| China             | 9.0M  |
| India             | 2.5M  |

## How to read it

- Running total of stars since 2011, by the location of the project’s developer.
- Location rules as in the [related chart](https://aiadoption.org/data/github-ai-projects-by-region/).

**Source:** [GitHub](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#github), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.5.5: *Number of GitHub stars by geographic area, 2011–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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