Mary Meeker AI Trends Report: Mind-Boggling Numbers Paint AI's Massive Growth Picture
Numbers that prove AI as a tech is unlike any other the world has ever seen.
Here are some incredibly powerful numbers from Mary Meeker's AI Trends report, which showcase how artificial intelligence as a tech is unlike any other the world has ever seen.
AI took only three years to reach 50% user adoption in the US; mobile internet took six years, desktop internet took 12 years, while PCs took 20 years.
ChatGPT reached 800 million users in 17 months and 100 million in only two months, vis-à-vis Netflix’s 100 million (10 years), Instagram (2.5 years) and TikTok (nine months).
ChatGPT hit 365 billion annual searches in two years (2024) vs. Google's 11 years (2009)—ChatGPT 5.5x faster than Google.
ChatGPT made 90% of its users outside North America in its third year, compared to 23 years for the internet to do so.
Over 202% rise in daily time spent on ChatGPT in 21 months.
Tech majors like Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft have billions of users with ongoing AI product rollouts.
AI system performance on MMLU benchmark test higher than humans (92.3% vs. 89.8%)
150% annual growth over six years in performance gains from better AI supercomputers, enabled by growth in chips per cluster and performance per chip.
The number of powerful AI models released since 2020 have witnessed a 167% annual growth.
Large-scale AI models rose 1,150% and AI language models (420%) from 2022 to 2024.
Training dataset size (number of words) for key AI models, such as OpenAI's GPT-2, saw a 260% annual growth over the past 15 years.
Training compute for AI models like GPT-4 and xAI's Grok 3 saw 360% annual growth over the past 15 years.
75% of global chief marketing officers are using/testing AI tools.
72% of employed US adults using AI chatbots say it helps do work quicker and better.
Interest in AI agents as per Google Searches has risen 1,088% over the past 16 months.
$212 billion capex of big six US-based tech companies on AI, with 63% YoY growth.
$455 billion global IT company data centre capex in 2024.
Nvidia GPU performance has risen 225x over eight years and installed GPU computing power 100x over six years.
Number of AI developer repositories on GitHub have risen 175% over 16 months.
Open-source models are rising due to lower costs, with Meta’s Llama reaching 1.2 billion downloads in 10 weeks (3.4x growth in eight months).
