See where the world’s AI models actually come from.

3,484 tracked models, traced to the country of the organisation that built them. Two countries account for most of the volume — but volume is not the same as the frontier, and the tail is where the interesting labs are.

  • United States1,748 models tracked
    ACClaude Fable 583.0LB
  • China829 models tracked
    MTKimi K379.2LB
  • United Kingdom178 models tracked
    SAStability AI · 8 recent
  • Canada106 models tracked
    CECommand R+1226Elo
  • South Korea83 models tracked
    LALG AI Research · 15 recent
  • France76 models tracked
    MAMistral Medium 3.51427Elo
  • Germany74 models tracked
    BFBlack Forest Labs · 6 recent
  • Japan53 models tracked
    TITokyo Institute of Technology · 2 recent

Each country shows its highest-scoring model, not its most prolific lab. Counting models rewards whoever publishes most research: in the United States that is a 64 / 60 / 57 photo finish between Google DeepMind, NVIDIA and OpenAI, while Anthropic ships 17 models and holds the top score. Volume and quality are different questions and this list answers the second one.

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Not drawn: Multinational (10) — listed rather than dropped, because a value we cannot place is still a value we hold.

Tracked models by country of the building organisation, all years. Source: Epoch AI (CC-BY), as of 2026-08-13. This is where models are BUILT — not where they are used, which is a different question and a dataset we do not hold.

Release velocity

Models entering the registry per quarter. The shape is the point — this is a rate, not a set of categories.

2962021 Q3: 242021 Q4: 672022 Q1: 452022 Q2: 672022 Q3: 532022 Q4: 652023 Q1: 852023 Q2: 1252023 Q3: 1262023 Q4: 1762024 Q1: 1572024 Q2: 2392024 Q3: 2962024 Q4: 2222025 Q1: 1832025 Q2: 1822025 Q3: 1162025 Q4: 862026 Q1: 402026 Q2: 462021 Q32022 Q32023 Q32024 Q32025 Q32026 Q2

Complete quarters only; the quarter in progress is excluded rather than drawn as a cliff. A soft tail in the most recent quarters is expected regardless — Epoch catalogues models after release, so the newest periods keep filling in for a while.

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