Track and forecast the trajectory of AI (compute, data, hardware, benchmarks) with public datasets.
Epoch is the go-to source for numbers on how fast AI is scaling. A 2025 controversy over undisclosed OpenAI funding pushed it to publish a full funding transparency page.
Focus
- Compute governance
- Transparency
- Safety evaluations
Funding, as far as we know
Coefficient Giving ~$23.9M since 2022; Jaan Tallinn; Survival & Flourishing Fund; OpenAI-funded FrontierMath work - https://epoch.ai/about/transparency
What they've actually done
Maintains public databases of notable models, training compute and hardware used by policymakers and the International AI Safety Report
ongoing
Criticised for disclosing only after release that OpenAI funded FrontierMath and had access to problems; later published a transparency page
19 January 2025
Published 2026 FrontierMath data audit and open-problems verifier under an OpenAI partnership with stated editorial independence
2026