🧠 Stanford's 2026 AI Index: capabilities ripping, governance sleeping
SWE-bench coding scores went from 60% to near 100% in one year. Organizational adoption hit 88%. GenAI spread faster than the PC or the internet.
And yet models that win math olympiads read analog clocks correctly only 50% of the time. Progress is very real and very jagged.
U.S.-China gap: basically gone. DeepSeek briefly tied the top U.S. model in Feb 2025. Anthropic leads today by 2.7%.
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