The Global AI Vibrancy Tool
Loredana Fattorini, Nestor Maslej, Raymond Perrault, Vanessa Parli, John Etchemendy, Yoav Shoham, Katrina Ligett
TL;DR
The paper introduces the Global AI Vibrancy Tool (GVT), a comprehensive, interactive platform that aggregates 42 AI-specific indicators across 8 pillars to produce a cross-country AI Vibrancy Index for 36 countries from 2017 to 2023. It defines three sub-indices—Innovation, Economic Competitiveness, and Policy/Governance/Public Engagement—to enable granular analysis, and employs a transparent, customizable weighting scheme with min-max normalization and weighted aggregation to generate yearly rankings. The results show the United States leading by a wide margin, with China and the United Kingdom following, and reveal notable per-capita leadership by smaller economies such as Luxembourg and Singapore; the analysis also highlights varying strengths across sub-indices. The tool’s open data, interactive visualizations, and sensitivity to weighting make it a practical resource for policymakers, industry stakeholders, researchers, and the public to monitor AI development, compare national AI ecosystems, and inform strategic decisions. Future work aims to broaden coverage, improve data quality, and incorporate user feedback to maintain the GVT as a timely, authoritative measure of global AI vibrancy.
Abstract
This paper presents the latest version of the Global AI Vibrancy Tool (GVT), an interactive suite of visualizations designed to facilitate the comparison of AI vibrancy across 36 countries, using 42 indicators organized into 8 pillars. The tool offers customizable features that allow users to conduct in-depth country-level comparisons and longitudinal analyses of AI-related metrics, all based on publicly available data. By providing a transparent assessment of national progress in AI, it serves the diverse needs of policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, and the general public. Using weights for indicators and pillars developed by AI Index's panel of experts and combined into an index, the Global AI Vibrancy Ranking for 2023 places the United States first by a significant margin, followed by China and the United Kingdom. The ranking also highlights the rise of smaller nations such as Singapore when evaluated on both absolute and per capita bases. The tool offers three sub-indices for evaluating Global AI Vibrancy along different dimensions: the Innovation Index, the Economic Competitiveness Index, and the Policy, Governance, and Public Engagement Index.