The AI Power Map

Artificial intelligence is a structure of power. Behind every advanced model, platform, and automated decision lies a network of actors competing for influence over digital infrastructure, data, knowledge, supply chains, and the rules and standards that will shape the future of AI.

To help make sense of this complex AI ecosystem, we are launching “The AI Power Map,” a series that briefly introduces the tech companies, chipmakers, cloud providers, universities, research labs, governments, international organizations, investment funds, and expert authority-producing spaces that form part of the technical and political debate behind AI systems and models.

Some of these actors control critical infrastructure; others shape norms, guide funding, lead standard-setting processes, or possess exceptional scientific capabilities. Their relationships combine cooperation, dependence, competition, and strategic rivalry in a context marked by rising geopolitical tensions.

This series seeks to identify and analyze the most influential actors in the global AI ecosystem.