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U.S. vs. China: Notable AI Models Released per Year
Notable AI models released each year by developer country: U.S., China and the rest of the world
2 of 3 series are above their level a year earlier
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0). A model counts for a country when one of its developers is based there. A model built by developers in several countries counts for each. Hong Kong is listed separately by Epoch and is not in China's count. Complete years only.
Epoch AI marks a model notable when it is highly cited, costly to train, widely used or state of the art. The U.S. has produced the most notable models every year since 2013; China's count has grown and passed the rest of the world combined in most years since 2021.
What this chart reads
- United States · Notable AI Models Released per Yearas “United States”latest 2025-12-31
- China · Notable AI Models Released per Yearas “China”latest 2025-12-31
- Rest of World · Notable AI Models Released per Year (no U.S. or Chinese developer)as “Rest of the world”latest 2025-12-31
Sources
United States · Notable AI Models Released per Year. Source: Epoch AI, 'Data on AI models' (epoch.ai/data/ai-models), Notable AI Models. CC BY 4.0. Counts by developer country calculated by Palanor.
China · Notable AI Models Released per Year. Source: Epoch AI, 'Data on AI models' (epoch.ai/data/ai-models), Notable AI Models. CC BY 4.0. Counts by developer country calculated by Palanor.
Rest of World · Notable AI Models Released per Year (no U.S. or Chinese developer). Source: Epoch AI, 'Data on AI models' (epoch.ai/data/ai-models), Notable AI Models. CC BY 4.0. Counts by developer country calculated by Palanor.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.