// Charts · updated weekly
The story in numbers //every chart we track.
A growing collection of charts that tell the AI industry's story — adoption, economics, research velocity, frontier movement, and funding. The agent refreshes these from primary sources weekly.
Total tokens processed across major labs, 2024 → 2026
Up roughly 20× since Q1 2024. Inference at scale is now the central operational story for every frontier lab — and the central commercial one.
Where the tokens flow
Top three account for ~78% of inference volume. Long tail growing slowly as open weights catch up.
Cost per million, 2024 → 2026
Frontier inference cost down ~85% in 24 months. Open weights have fallen further on a per-token basis.
How big can a model "see" at once
Two orders of magnitude in two years. Long-context is now table stakes; the bottleneck has shifted to retrieval and attention quality.
Open vs closed releases per quarter
Open-weights releases now outnumber closed by ~3× per quarter — and the gap is widening.
AI papers submitted per quarter
arXiv AI submissions up ~6× since early 2024. Volume is overwhelming traditional peer review.
Capital raised, per quarter ($B)
Q4 2025 set a record; Q1 2026 broke it. Concentration is high — the top 5 deals account for ~60% of the total.