Frontier AI developers compared
8 frontier AI developers, ordered by notable models released since January 2025, OpenAI first with 40. 7 have published a safety framework, and 48 of the 69 releases indexed since January 2025 had a safety card on the day of release. Every column is a figure from the page named in its source.
| Developer | Notable models | Since January 2025 | Largest training run | Commits to stop | Card on the day | Sites owned | Planned IT power | Largest stated volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 80 | 40 | 9.4e26 GPT-6 Astra | yes | 22 of 30 | 0 | - | 657 trillion a month |
| Google DeepMind | 217 | 21 | 5.0e25 Gemini 1.0 Ultra | qualified | 6 of 8 | 20 | 5.9 GW | 3.2 quadrillion a month |
| Anthropic | 22 | 16 | 3.4e25 Claude 3.7 Sonnet | qualified | 15 of 15 | 0 | - | none stated |
| Meta | 92 | 9 | 5.2e25 Llama 4 Behemoth (preview) | yes | 3 of 5 | 17 | 5.6 GW | none stated |
| DeepSeek | 10 | 7 | 9.7e24 DeepSeek-V4-Pro | no framework | 0 of 4 | 0 | - | none stated |
| xAI | 9 | 7 | 5.0e26 Grok 4 | qualified | 1 of 6 | 3 | 1.9 GW | none stated |
| Microsoft | 47 | 2 | 8.6e23 Megatron-Turing NLG 530B | yes | 1 of 1 | 7 | 4.1 GW | 50 trillion a month |
| Amazon | 6 | 1 | 6.0e24 Amazon Nova Pro | yes | - | 5 | 4.0 GW | none stated |
Models and compute are Epoch AI's list and estimates. Commits to stop is what each framework says, from the Frontier Safety Framework Index; card on the day counts releases since January 2025 in the Release Safety Disclosure Index. Sites and planned power are those Epoch's hub records the company as owning. A stated token volume covers whatever scope the company chose and does not compare across companies. Notable AI Models Epoch AI Inclusion is editorial ("notability criteria"), not exhaustive. Compute figures are frequently estimates; check the per-row confidence and notes columns before treating any value as measured. Cite Epoch AI, "Notable AI Models". https://epoch.ai/data/ai-models. Retrieved 18 October 2026 via AI Safety Tracker, https://aisafetytracker.org/developers/. Frontier Safety Framework Index This site Our own reading of each developer's published safety framework and model cards. Every field is what the developer says about itself: these are self-assessments under self-written frameworks with no common scale and no external audit, and they are indexed here for exactly that reason. Not a ranking, and not a verification. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "Frontier Safety Framework Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/alignment/#frameworks. Retrieved 18 October 2026. Release Safety Disclosure Index This site Our own reading of the system card, model card or safety report each developer published for each release Epoch AI lists from 2025, joined to Epoch's list. Every cell is what a developer says about its own model under its own framework: whether a card came out with the release, whether it reports dangerous-capability results, which government institutes it names as pre-release testers, and whether it says a risk threshold was reached. None of it is verified. A release Epoch adds after the last review is shown as awaiting review. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "Release Safety Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/alignment/#releases. Retrieved 18 October 2026. AI Data Centers Epoch AI The largest AI sites Epoch has found, mostly in the United States. Epoch estimated in September 2026 that they hold 44% of the world's deployed AI compute, with a 90% interval of 23% to 81%. Power, compute and cost are Epoch's estimates from satellite imagery, permits and company statements; four in five IT power estimates fall within a factor of 1.4 of the true value. The owner is the owner of the chips, not necessarily of the building. Capacity after the date of retrieval is Epoch's projection. Coordinates are read from the hub's map page, which publishes them; the downloads do not. Cite Epoch AI, "AI Data Centers". https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers. Retrieved 18 October 2026 via AI Safety Tracker, https://aisafetytracker.org/developers/. AI Usage Disclosure Index This site Our own compilation of the token volumes, user counts and shares of use that companies and studies have put on the record, each linked to where it was stated. Scopes, units and token definitions differ between companies, so no two figures are comparable without the scope printed beside each. Figures known only through press reporting are marked as such. Not a market share estimate, and not a measure of any company's actual volume beyond what it chose to state. Cite AI Safety Tracker, "AI Usage Disclosure Index". https://aisafetytracker.org/usage/. Retrieved 18 October 2026.