AI100 report says generative AI has gone mainstream

AI100 has released its 2026 report, ‘AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI,’ assessing how AI has evolved since 2021.

• The report, administered by Stanford University’s HAI, says generative AI has become mainstream and examines 12 key takeaways covering scaling, scientific discovery, AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, military uses, digital media trustworthiness, public participation, and governance.
• It says capital investment in AI infrastructure is unprecedented, frontier AI development is concentrated among a few U.S. and Chinese actors, and AI governance is increasingly framed in terms of national security; the panel also notes AI100 is a five-year study launched in 2014.
• Press contacts listed in the article are Maria Einhorn and Nicole Siller at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, with phone numbers and email addresses provided in the source text.