Artificial Intelligence

A running project covering AI tools, product comparisons, workflows, rankings, market shifts, and visual breakdowns across the AI tools ecosystem.

13 project entries Series collection
India Trains a Large Pool of AI Talent for the World

US AI Talent Educated in India

20.6%

20.6%

Nearly a fifth of America's identified AI workforce.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 23 Sept 2026

India Trains a Large Pool of AI Talent for the World

India is a top-five country of education for AI professionals in 33 of 46 foreign destinations tracked by interface, and that share widened in 22 of those 33 between 2024 and 2025.

Which Countries Actually Have AI Capacity? 83 Ranked

Scored Economies at 10 or Below

72%

72%

60 of the 83 sit in the bottom bands

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 21 Sept 2026

Which Countries Actually Have AI Capacity? 83 Ranked

Tortoise Media's Global AI Index scores 83 economies on Scale, its measure of total AI capacity. The United States sits at 100, China at 57, and 60 of the 83 score 10 or below.

High-Income Countries Take Most of AI Everything

High-Income Share of AI Funding

91%

91%

Four of five measures lean the same way

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 21 Sept 2026

High-Income Countries Take Most of AI Everything

High-income economies lead four of five AI innovation measures. On GenAI patents they trail upper-middle-income economies two to one.

How AI Detectors Spot AI Writing: Four Tells, 2023-2026

Em Dash Use Since Jan 2023

93%

93%

After falling for the whole of 2023.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 15 Sept 2026

How AI Detectors Spot AI Writing: Four Tells, 2023-2026

Detectors count habits, not meaning. Four tells tracked across 490,000 webpages — and the em dash fell for two years first.

Does AI Hallucination Really Get Better With Newer Models?

o4-mini's Own Hallucination Rate

48%

48%

OpenAI's own reasoning model, on PersonQA.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 02 Sept 2026

Does AI Hallucination Really Get Better With Newer Models?

On Vectara's benchmark, every major AI provider was flat-to-worse on their newest flagship — and reasoning models score up to 3.4x higher.

AI Data Center Electricity Use : Demand Explained

Voters Who Blame Data Centers

78%

78%

Most Virginia voters disagree with Dominion Energy's denial.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 31 Aug 2026

AI Data Center Electricity Use : Demand Explained

AI data centers could nearly double global electricity demand by 2030 — and bills are already rising where that growth concentrates.

Is DeepSeek Really Winning Countries from ChatGPT ?

ChatGPT Default Share

94%

94%

140 of 149 countries default to ChatGPT.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 21 Aug 2026

Is DeepSeek Really Winning Countries from ChatGPT ?

A categorical map of 149 countries and territories shows DeepSeek's rare wins are almost always government bans or OpenAI exclusions, not real consumer preference.

How Much Longer Can AI Work Alone in 2026 Than in 2019?

Latest Time Horizon (Feb 2026)

718 min

100%

Up nearly 21,800x from GPT-2's 2 seconds.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 20 Aug 2026

How Much Longer Can AI Work Alone in 2026 Than in 2019?

AI's task-completion time horizon grew from a 2-second sentence in 2019 to a 12-hour unsupervised workday by 2026, milestone by milestone.

Did AI Subscription Prices Really Rise? 2023–2026

Floor-to-Ceiling Spread

10x

100%

Up from 1x in 2023, when no higher tier existed.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 10 Aug 2026

Did AI Subscription Prices Really Rise? 2023–2026

The $20 entry price for AI subscriptions held from 2023 to 2026 while the ceiling climbed to $200 — and $300 at Grok.

LLM API Pricing Compared: Cost per 1M Tokens

Price Spread

83x

83%

GPT-5.5 costs 83x more per million tokens than DeepSeek Flash.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 17 Jul 2026

LLM API Pricing Compared: Cost per 1M Tokens

Thirteen LLM APIs from five providers, ranked by cost per 1M input plus output tokens — an 83x spread from GPT-5.5 to DeepSeek V4 Flash.

Top AI Companies By Intelligence

Highest Score

51/100

51%

Top score in FactsFigs' private ranking: OpenAI's GPT-5.2.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 17 Jul 2026

Top AI Companies By Intelligence

Ten AI companies ranked by FactsFigs' own intelligence score — built from identical-prompt testing, not a public benchmark — with model counts for context.

Top 10 Most Used AI Tools In 2026

ChatGPT Traffic Share

44%

44%

ChatGPT alone takes 1.8B of 4.13B monthly visits.

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 17 Jul 2026

Top 10 Most Used AI Tools In 2026

The most used AI tools of 2026, ranked by monthly traffic — from ChatGPT's 1.8B visits down to GitHub Copilot at #10.

Claude AI Funding: How Anthropic Raised $72.3B

Top Signal

100%

100%

Increase in Market Value

Artificial Intelligence
By Saif Ur Rahman • Updated 17 Jul 2026

Claude AI Funding: How Anthropic Raised $72.3B

Anthropic raised $72.3 billion across 10 rounds, from a $124M seed in 2021 to the $30B Series G valuing Claude at $380 billion.