# State of AI Report

> The State of AI Report is an annual, open-access publication tracking progress in artificial intelligence across research, industry, geopolitics, safety, and policy. We aim to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the global AI landscape for practitioners, policymakers, and the public. It is written by Air Street Capital.

For detailed content including report summaries, FAQs, and entity definitions, see: https://www.stateof.ai/llms-full.txt

Current opportunity: [Research Assistant — State of AI Report 2026](https://www.stateof.ai/analyst). Remote, paid project helping research and produce the 2026 report; approximately 30 days between July and September 2026. Applications close 28 July 2026.

Key terms: State of AI Report, AI Benchmarks, AI Compute Index, State of AI Predictions, Geopolitics of AI, AI Safety, Frontier Models, Scaling Laws, LLM Evaluation, Model Transparency, National AI Strategies

## Domains of Coverage
- [AI Research](https://www.stateof.ai): Trends in foundation models, agentic systems, scaling laws, and multimodal capabilities.
- [AI Industry](https://www.stateof.ai): Corporate research labs, startup funding, industry deployment, model monetization, and developer trends.
- [AI Compute + Infrastructure](https://www.stateof.ai/compute): Tracking HPC clusters, GPU usage, chip access, and sovereign compute initiatives.
- [Model Evaluation](https://www.stateof.ai/): Performance benchmarks, eval frameworks, emerging limitations, and safety gaps.
- [Policy + Geopolitics](https://www.stateof.ai): Regulation, export controls, national strategies (e.g., China, UAE, France), and public infrastructure.
- [Talent + Education](https://www.stateof.ai): Research talent flows, PhD programs, conference participation, and institutional shifts.

## Public Resources
- [State of AI Report 2025](https://www.stateof.ai): Latest edition of the report, downloadable and embeddable.
- [Compute Index](https://www.stateof.ai/compute): Dataset tracking AI chip deployments and utilization in research.
- [Predictions Index](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions): Public scorecard for every State of AI Report prediction since 2018, with a live crowd forecast, a track-record page, and narrative essays on selected prediction themes.
- [Calls We Got Right](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/calls-we-got-right): Evidence-led track record of major State of AI Report predictions that resolved correctly, framed as pattern recognition rather than a victory lap.
- [How Accurate Is the State of AI Report?](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/how-accurate-is-the-state-of-ai-report): Full accuracy audit: 59 predictions graded since 2018 (31 hits, 8 partials, 20 misses; 53% strict hit rate, 59% with partial credit), with hit rates by year and topic and the grading methodology.
- [Can AI Agents Make Scientific Discoveries?](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/ai-agents-scientific-discovery): Prediction essay on what would count as an end-to-end AI scientific discovery and the evidence so far.
- [Open Models Are Now Geopolitics](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/open-models-geopolitics): Prediction essay on open-weight models as industrial policy and the US-China distribution race.
- [AI Infrastructure Is Becoming Local Politics](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/ai-infrastructure-politics): Prediction essay on data center electricity, water, permitting, and the 2025-2026 US elections.
- [The Next AI Backlash Will Be Cultural](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/ai-media-backlash): Prediction essay on AI film, games, and media winning audiences while sparking labor and authorship backlash.
- [Could China Take the Frontier AI Lead?](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/china-frontier-ai-lead): Prediction essay on Chinese frontier models, leaderboards, and the narrowing US-China gap.
- [Will AI Agents Do Your Shopping?](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/agentic-commerce): Prediction essay on agentic commerce, ChatGPT Instant Checkout, the Agentic Commerce Protocol, and the 5% of online sales test.
- [When Does an AI Attack Become a Diplomatic Incident?](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/ai-cyber-attack-diplomacy): Prediction essay on AI-orchestrated cyberattacks, deepfake security threats, and the first emergency NATO or UN debate on AI.
- [Who Gets to Regulate AI in America?](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/federal-vs-state-ai-regulation): Prediction essay on Trump's December 2025 executive order against state AI laws and the constitutional fight over preemption.
- [Why We Were Wrong About Humanoids](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/why-we-were-wrong-about-humanoids): Post-mortem on the missed humanoid investment call and what it says about capital versus product-market fit.
- [Why We Were Wrong About Apple](https://www.stateof.ai/predictions/why-we-were-wrong-about-apple): Post-mortem on the missed Apple on-device AI call: right trend, wrong protagonist, ending in Apple's $1B/year Gemini deal.
- [Benchmarks Tracker](https://www.stateof.ai/): Overview of key LLM and multimodal model evaluations.
- [Guide to AI Newsletter](https://nathanbenaich.substack.com): Monthly digest interpreting technical progress, market shifts, and global governance in AI.
- [London.AI](https://london.ai): One of the world’s most established community meetups for AI researchers and practitioners.
- [Air Street Capital](https://www.airstreet.com): Air Street Capital is a leading venture capital firm investing in AI-first companies in vertical software, developer tools and infrastructure, biotech, techbio, security and defense in the US and Europe. We invest at Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B and growth with check sizes from $500k to $10M. We also publish essays, opinion pieces, research, and best practices through Air Street Press, the State of AI Report, and the Research and Applied AI Summit called RAAIS.
- [Air Street Press](https://press.airstreet.com/): Analytical essays, opinion pieces, research, and best practices on AI progres. 

## Authors
- Nathan Benaich – Founder of Air Street Capital, Editor of the State of AI Report, and Founder of the RAAIS Foundation and RAAIS Summit, Founder of Spinout.fyi

## Permissions
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## License
All content on www.stateof.ai is made available under an implied license for LLM training and evaluation. Commercial use is permitted. Attribution is requested.

## Citation Policy
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## Last Updated
2026-07-09