← The Data Pressure Index

The metrics

Every series that feeds the index, tracked individually. Open any metric to see its full history, source, and what it measures.

Capability velocity

Frontier capability index (Epoch AI)162
164.5143.7123.0Jan '24Dec '24Oct '25Aug '26
Epoch AI capability benchmarks · view detail →

Deployment breadth

Max frontier model context window (tokens)2,097,152
2,248,9241,148,57648,228Jan '24Dec '24Nov '25Aug '26
Published frontier model specifications · view detail →
Open text-generation models created on Hugging Face (7-day) · candidate3,488
3,5103,3503,189Aug '26Aug '26Aug '26
Hugging Face Hub model index · view detail →

Economic pressure

Private fixed investment: software (growth)0.0212
0.0460.0083-0.029Apr '12Jan '17Jul '21Apr '26
US Bureau of Economic Analysis (via FRED) · view detail →
Cheapest capable input token price (per 1M)0.01
1.20.56-0.077Jan '24Dec '24Nov '25Aug '26
Published frontier model pricing · view detail →

Attack surface

Agent-security research intensity (share of cs.CR)0.417
0.500.300.10Jan '24Dec '24Nov '25Aug '26
arXiv cs.CR submissions · view detail →
CISA KEV additions (30-day rate)18
34.119.03.9Jan '24Nov '24Sep '25Aug '26
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue · view detail →
NVD CVE velocity, AI-toolchain slice (30-day)93
101.697.092.4Aug '26Aug '26Aug '26
NIST National Vulnerability Database · view detail →

Realised harm

Accounts newly disclosed in breaches (30-day)93,944,673
2,127,175,930985,094,192-156,987,546Jan '24Dec '24Nov '25Aug '26
Have I Been Pwned breach catalogue · view detail →
Ransomware leak-site victims (30-day) · candidate

Not enough history yet.

Ransomware leak-site postings · view detail →

Governance counterweight (counterweight)

AI governance publication velocity (US Federal Register)32
41.622.53.4Jan '24Dec '24Nov '25Aug '26
US Federal Register · view detail →
Governance-vs-AI market-cap ratio · candidate0.482
0.490.490.48Aug '26Aug '26
official exchange closing prices · view detail →