The Stanford AI Index 2026 Audit: Reading the Field’s Annual Report Card With a Critic’s Pen
An analysis of the Stanford AI Index 2026, highlighting its strengths, limitations, and implications for AI policy and industry, based on recent audit findings.
Thorsten Meyer analyzes Jack Clark’s recent essay revealing a 60% chance of automated AI research by 2028, with a significant 40% possibility of paradigm limitations.
The European sovereign-LLM essay track has reached its completion point after ten detailed analyses, with external events expected to shape next steps.
Analysis of six European institutional responses to sovereign LLM development and strategic recommendations ahead of August 2026 AI enforcement deadline.
Apertus, developed by the Swiss AI Initiative, is a new open, multilingual, compliance-first AI model designed as a sovereign European AI infrastructure template.