AI adoption, in numbers.
Each dimension is a short data essay from a public source — with the chart, the story behind it, and the open math for how the number was reached. Pick a dimension to explore.
Scientific output
How many AI papers the world publishes each year
32.5×growth 2012→2025
From 3,310 papers in 2012 to 107,429 in 2025 — a 32.5× jump in just over a decade. Each point counts unique papers submitted to arXiv in the core AI categories.
2025 107,429
Category composition in 2025
A paper can appear in more than one category (cross-list), so the sum exceeds the unique total — these are presence shares, not exclusive ones.
- Aprendizado de Máquinacs.LG46,009
- Inteligência Artificialcs.AI45,145
- Visão Computacionalcs.CV34,979
- Linguagem (NLP)cs.CL23,757
- ML (Estatística)stat.ML6,391
- Redes Neurais / Evolutivocs.NE1,613
- Method
- Papers únicos por ano no conjunto de categorias de IA. A contagem usa uma única consulta com OR entre categorias, então o arXiv deduplica papers cross-listados no opensearch:totalResults.
- Source
- arXiv API
- Snapshot from
- July 05, 2026