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No compatible survey included
Model development, business adoption and the research base behind them.
No compatible survey included
Broader Epoch catalogue, including variants; not a complete model census.
All R&D, not AI-only investment.
Same source, year and developer-country attribution. The broader catalogue includes versions and sizes. Neither number is the total number of models developed here.
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Selected projects checked against institutions and developers. These may overlap with Epoch; they are not added to its count.
Joint institutional release attributes development to the three Swiss institutions and identifies 8B and 70B sizes
Attribution sourceFirst-party checks reviewed 2026-10-25 · selected coverage
Annual notable-model entries · developer country · 2020–2025
International collaborations may appear in multiple countries. Counts are not additive market shares or a national AI-strength ranking.Epoch AI · CC BY 4.0 · Complete years through 2025 · incomplete 2026 excluded
These indicators describe all research and development, not AI-only expenditure or AI’s measured economic impact.
3.22% of GDP · all R&D · 2023 · Switzerland
Comparison uses 2023, the latest common year for this selection. The latest national observation above may be newer.
World Bank WDI / UNESCO Institute for Statistics · % of GDP · all R&D6,107.96per million people · all R&D · 2023 · Switzerland
Comparison uses 2017, the latest common year for this selection. The latest national observation above may be newer.
World Bank WDI / UNESCO Institute for Statistics · per million people · all R&DEpoch AI · CC BY 4.0 · Model comparisons stop at 2025; incomplete 2026 is excluded. No forward-filled research observations.
No statistically compatible enterprise-adoption series is included for Switzerland. Missing coverage is not zero adoption.
Epoch’s notable-model selection · developer country · international projects can appear in multiple countries
DiT-XL/2 + CADSETH Zurich,Disney ResearchStarGAN v2NAVER,Yonsei University,Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyPG-SWGANETH ZurichAWD-LSTM-DRILL + dynamic evaluation† (WT2)IDIAPDNN EM segmentationIDSIA,SUPSICNN committee (traffic sign)IDSIACNN Committee (NIST)IDSIACNN Committee (MNIST)IDSIA