State of AI Report 2026
Explore the report.
Explore the key developments in AI research, industry, politics, and safety. Each section brings together the findings, questions, and evidence from this year’s report.
AI progress
The frontier is now a three-lab race.
AI agents
Better tools and context make agents more capable.
Compute & infrastructure
More AI requires financing, construction, and local consent.
AI in business
AI inference is becoming a vast business.
Robotics
Robotics is approaching its GPT-2 moment.
AI for science
AI-assisted drug discovery is reaching Phase 3.
Policy & geopolitics
Washington is asserting control over frontier AI.
Safety & security
AI agents have attacked real systems.
Predictions
Our AI predictions for 2027.