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# Industry's share of notable AI models rose from 15% in 2014 to 92% in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/industry-share-of-notable-ai-models/
- Published: 2026-10-19T14:40:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:03:01.000Z
- Description: Industry produced 92% of notable AI models in 2025, up from 15% in 2014, when academia's share was 64%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Models, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-models

92%

▲ 76.4 pts since 2014

industry's share of notable AI models in 2025

20032025

## What the chart shows

In 2014 universities produced 64% of notable AI models and companies 15%. By 2025 the positions had reversed: industry’s share was 92% and academia’s 2%.

Industry has produced more than half of notable models every year since 2021, and its share jumped from 58% in 2023 to 83% in 2024.

## Key numbers

| Measure        | Value |
| -------------- | ----- |
| Industry, 2025 | 91.6% |
| Industry, 2014 | 15.2% |
| Academia, 2025 | 1.9%  |
| Academia, 2014 | 63.6% |

## How to read it

- Shares of each year’s total; years with few notable models (before about 2012) swing widely.
- Sector definitions as in the [related chart](https://aiadoption.org/data/notable-ai-models-by-sector/).

**Source:** [Epoch AI](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#epoch-ai), [Data on AI models](https://epoch.ai/data/ai-models?ref=aiadoption.org) (CC BY 4.0), accessed 19 October 2026\. Analysis and chart by AI Adoption, following the method of the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.1.5.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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