Cognitive Coefficient
We measure cognitive capacity, human and machine, across nations, cities, institutions and people. Then we advise the few who have to act on it.
The Institute publishes the Cognitive Coefficient Index and the research built on it. Our advisory practice works privately with governments, boards, investors and principals to turn a position on the Index into a decision.
The Index
50 measured. Economies ranked on Cognitive Power: AI capital mobilised, compute, frontier models, robotics and research output. The Coefficient reads the same capacity per person.
Open the table →Major global cities162 measured. Metros ranked on the same method, on absolute power and per person.
Open the table →US states51 measured. US states on absolute and per-person capacity.
Open the table →Two in a class of their own
Cognitive Power measures what a country can do in absolute terms. The Coefficient measures depth per person. The two tell different stories, so the Index publishes both.
1st on absolute power and 1st per person, in North America.
2nd on absolute power and 6th per person, in Asia-Pacific.
3rd on absolute power and 16th per person, in Asia-Pacific.
Research
All research
From the Index · Geographies · CountriesTwo countries hold absolute power: the United States and ChinaThe United States scores 93.6 on Cognitive Power and China 91.9. Japan, in third, scores 65.4, 26.5 points behind second place.
From the Index · Geographies · CountriesScale is not depthAmong the 10 strongest economies, India shows the widest gap between the two lenses: 8th on absolute power, outside the top 10 per person.
From the Index · Geographies · Major global citiesWhere the metros leadNew York leads the metros on absolute power at 87.1.
Counsel, grounded in measurement
Know where you stand, on the same scale as your peers and rivals.
See the next five years before they arrive, and rehearse them.
Decide, reposition and hold ground as capability shifts beneath you.
16 tables, one method
The IndexCountries, major cities and US states, on absolute capacity and per person.
Countries · Major cities · US StatesOrganisationsThe largest companies and the companies shaping AI.
Largest companies · AI companiesAI frontierThe labs and the open models moving the frontier.
Open modelsAI infrastructureThe physical and industrial stack under AI compute, layer by layer.
Data-centre operators · Power and energy for AI · Telecom and network carriers · Servers, networking and optics · Power, cooling and electrical equipment · Critical minerals and materials · Training data and labellingWho we serve
Heads of government, ministries, sovereign institutions and economic development authorities.
BoardsChairs, chief executives and the boards of companies whose core work is becoming automatable.
InvestorsSovereign funds, private equity, long-horizon private capital and the allocators backing what comes next.
PrincipalsIndividuals and families of significant means, advised privately and by introduction only.
Our clients are not disclosed. Neither is our work for them.
Follow the Index as it moves
Each edition's movements and the Institute's research, as it is published. Nothing else.