The Library, Measured

Every claim in the AI Library cites a source, so the library can be audited by counting. Every number on this page is computed from the entries at build time.

Generated 2026-09-22
2871entries
3343cited sources
100%entries with a primary source
14207cross-links
1794topic tags

Entries per year, 1818 - 2026

The shape of the field itself: a long quiet century, a research era, and the post-2012 explosion. 705 undated entries (people, concepts) not shown.

182518501875190019251950197520002025 1818: 1 entries1843: 1 entries1854: 1 entries1870: 1 entries1872: 1 entries1879: 1 entries1889: 1 entries1890: 2 entries1900: 1 entries1909: 1 entries1910: 2 entries1912: 2 entries1913: 1 entries1927: 2 entries1931: 2 entries1936: 3 entries1941: 2 entries1942: 1 entries1943: 3 entries1945: 2 entries1946: 2 entries1948: 6 entries1949: 2 entries1950: 8 entries1951: 5 entries1952: 5 entries1953: 2 entries1954: 1 entries1955: 4 entries1956: 3 entries1957: 3 entries1958: 5 entries1959: 5 entries1960: 8 entries1961: 5 entries1962: 5 entries1963: 1 entries1964: 2 entries1965: 7 entries1966: 7 entries1967: 5 entries1968: 4 entries1969: 2 entries1970: 4 entries1971: 4 entries1972: 4 entries1973: 8 entries1974: 5 entries1976: 6 entries1977: 4 entries1979: 6 entries1980: 7 entries1981: 1 entries1982: 4 entries1983: 3 entries1984: 7 entries1986: 4 entries1987: 4 entries1989: 2 entries1990: 2 entries1991: 6 entries1992: 4 entries1993: 6 entries1994: 3 entries1995: 8 entries1997: 8 entries1998: 8 entries1999: 8 entries2000: 6 entries2001: 12 entries2002: 4 entries2003: 5 entries2004: 10 entries2005: 7 entries2006: 10 entries2007: 8 entries2008: 13 entries2009: 10 entries2010: 13 entries2011: 9 entries2012: 16 entries2013: 17 entries2014: 42 entries2015: 54 entries2016: 90 entries2017: 101 entries2018: 82 entries2019: 93 entries2020: 86 entries2021: 81 entries2022: 124 entries2023: 294 entries2024: 249 entries2025: 139 entries2026: 310 entries1836: 2 entries1921: 3 entries1901: 1 entries1937: 1 entries1975: 2 entries1978: 1 entries1985: 1 entries1988: 1 entries1996: 2 entries1903: 2 entries1863: 1 entries1924: 1 entries

By collection

Milestones
863
Landmark Papers
691
Concepts
355
Facts
268
People
162
Cautionary Tales and Curiosities
153
Organizations
132
Benchmarks
111
Model Families
90
Talks
46

Source types

What 3343 citations actually point at.

paper
1382
official-announcement
1275
report
226
profile
140
filing
122
book
87
video
58
dataset
37
interview
16

By tier: 3328 primary, 13 aggregate, 2 secondary. Every entry must cite at least one primary source - the build fails otherwise.

Most cited entries

The ideas the rest of the library leans on, by inbound cross-links.

  1. Large Language Model346
  2. Deep Learning234
  3. Computer Vision148
  4. Reinforcement Learning135
  5. Machine Learning135
  6. OpenAI133
  7. Transformer130
  8. Neural Network125
  9. Robotics115
  10. DeepMind (Google DeepMind)113

Top source domains

Where the primary sources live.

arxiv.org
870
anthropic.com
82
deepmind.google
75
openai.com
71
nature.com
59
youtube.com
48
archive.org
44
blog.google
44
github.com
42
doi.org
37
huggingface.co
32
research.google
31

Verification freshness

Every entry records when its sources were last checked.

Verified in the last 30 days
121
31 - 90 days
135
91 - 180 days
2615
Older than 180 days
0

Top tags

deep-learning 214history 197milestone 177trivia 153evaluation 140benchmark 129nlp 128policy 124computer-vision 121landmark-paper 121robotics 119agents 112reinforcement-learning 104openai 100foundations 99google 98hardware 96regulation 96machine-learning 94generative-ai 94ai-safety 88deepmind 87open-source 85reasoning 84