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    LUMINAIRE - Illuminating the Age of Intelligence

    Global AI Race Scoreboard

    Frontier AI is gated by four physical and financial inputs, not by ambition. Adjust the weight you place on compute, capital, electrical capacity, talent and policy, and the ranking recalculates. Structural comparison, not a league table of model quality.

    AI Race Scoreboard
    Editorial assessment, reader weighted

    Set what you believe decides the outcome. The ranking reorders against your weights. Country scores are fixed structural assessments and do not change.

    1
    United States91.7
    Frontier
    2
    China83.7
    Frontier
    3
    United Arab Emirates72.7
    Capital and compute buyer
    4
    Saudi Arabia66.2
    Capital and compute buyer
    5
    South Korea63.1
    Hardware anchored
    6
    France61.1
    Fast follower
    7
    Japan59.0
    Hardware anchored
    8
    United Kingdom55.5
    Fast follower
    9
    Canada54.4
    Research origin, scale gap
    10
    Singapore54.1
    Governance and hosting hub
    11
    India52.6
    Talent rich, compute short
    12
    Germany52.0
    Industrial applied
    13
    Israel50.0
    Applied specialist
    14
    Brazil37.0
    Adoption market
    15
    Nigeria22.4
    Adoption market

    Scores are LUMINAIRE structural assessments drawn from public compute, capital formation, grid capacity, research output and policy records. They describe position rather than capability of any single model, and they are reviewed rather than regenerated.

    Read the accompanying analysis: Who Is Actually in the AI Race, and Who Is Not