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| Figure/Metric | Value | Source | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable Models Baseline | ~310 | Epoch AI (May 2026) | Starting point for the forecast period. |
| Total Models Count | >3,500 | Epoch AI (May 2026) | Shows the size of the broader pool from which ‘notable’ models are curated. |
| 2025 Notable Releases | 95 | Stanford AI Index (2026) | Establishes a historical baseline rate of ~8 models/month. |
| Training Cost Threshold | >$1,000,000 | Epoch Documentation | A primary quantitative criterion for ‘notable’ classification. |
| Curation Reporting Lag | 3 - 5 weeks | Epoch AI | Determines which late-June releases will be excluded from the July 7 snapshot. |
The Epoch AI Notable AI Models dataset is a subset of a much larger database (over 3,500 models) that focuses only on high-impact releases. In 2025, approximately 95 notable models were added, representing a base rate of about 8 models per month. However, historical addition rates for the dataset subset have fluctuated between 10 and 20 models per month during peak periods. As of early May 2026, the dataset was reported at approximately 310 entries. Historically, large models like GPT-4 or Gemini 1.0 were added within two weeks, while smaller models meeting the $1 million compute threshold or 1,000+ citation criteria often faced lags of over a month. The dataset transitioned from the “Epoch research group” to “Epoch AI” in 2024, accompanied by a more systematic automated/manual hybrid curation process.
My analysis is based on a starting baseline of approximately 310 to 323 notable model entries as of early May 2026. This figure is consistently reported across multiple industry reports and internal dataset snapshots. Historically, Epoch AI adds between 10 and 20 notable models per month. However, the first half of 2026 has seen an unprecedented density of frontier and high-compute model releases, including the GPT-5.5 series, Claude 4.7, and various large-scale Chinese models like ERNIE 5.1 and DeepSeek V4.
To reach the predicted value of 335.5, I calculated roughly seven weeks of additional curation time between the mid-May snapshot and the July 7 resolution date. Given the 2-week lag for major models and the 3-5 week lag for others, the July snapshot will likely capture the vast majority of April and May releases, but only a portion of the models released in late June. Specifically, I expect a net increase of approximately 22 to 26 models from the early May baseline.
The weighting of the forecast acknowledges that Epoch AI often updates the dataset in batches. A major batch update following events like Google I/O (May 19) or a sudden processing of the “backlog” of smaller models that meet the $1 million training threshold could push the number toward the higher end of the interval (345+). Conversely, the 404 error currently observed on the GitHub repository suggests a transition period or technical restructuring that could temporarily slow the rate of new entries appearing in the public CSV, though the fallback resolution rules mitigate this risk. I have placed the highest density of probability around the 335-336 mark, which aligns with a steady-state growth of roughly 12-15 models per month during this hyper-active release window.
Question: how many models in Epoch AI’s “Notable AI Models” dataset have a release date on or before July 1, 2026? Both teams note that recent mirrors (Kaggle, DataHub) show the dataset has grown well past the discrete options provided—reports from early–mid 2026 give counts between about 1,015 and ~7,400 entries—so the true value is effectively above the highest listed bin (370.5). Gemini3pro_1 therefore places the vast majority of probability mass on the open upper bound (370.5) to represent “>370.5” (90%), with a 3% hedge on the lower bound (299.5) and tiny mass (0.1% per bin) spread to cover extreme restructuring or other anomalies. Gemini3pro_2 similarly concludes the answer is definitively above 370.5 and assigns mass to higher explicit bins (e.g., 1000.5 and 7400.5) to reflect current mirrors. Both forecasters flag an edge case: strict interpretation of the column name (“Release Date” vs “Publication date”) could, in theory, drive a 0 resolution, but that is considered unlikely. In sum, the consensus is overwhelmingly that the count exceeds the provided maximum bin, with small hedges for data/labeling quirks.
Forecast: Probability distribution:
We are forecasting the integer count of rows in Epoch’s notable_ai_models.csv (as it exists at 12:00 UTC on 2026-07-07) whose Release Date is on or before 2026-07-01. Since this is a historical releases dataset, nearly all rows in the file will likely qualify by date, so the outcome is approximately the total row count at the snapshot (minus any rare blank/late dates).
All four analysts anchor on the background fact that the dataset is ~310 entries in early May 2026, with additions arriving in batches and a typical 3–5 week lag. From 2026-05-13 to 2026-07-07 (~8 weeks), that batchy process suggests: (a) a meaningful chance the count is still close to ~310 if an update is delayed, but (b) a central expectation of one or two updates landing before the snapshot, capturing most releases through early/mid-June plus some backfill. Across the team’s distributions, the implied “typical” increase is roughly +25 to +35 entries, with a thinner but material upside tail if a large backlog/backfill batch lands just before the snapshot.
One analyst flags a potential dataset-path issue (raw GitHub URL returning 404 during their check). The resolution criteria specify falling back to a successor dataset / archived snapshot if the path changes, which slightly increases uncertainty (and supports keeping an upper tail for a larger-than-expected count if a restructure coincides with a bulk refresh). However, given the question creator’s stated likely range (not lower than ~300 and not higher than ~370), I keep most probability mass within ~310–365 and express only modest probability above 370.
I synthesize the analysts by taking a slightly-upweighted consensus around the median-percentiles (close to the median-of-analysts), while keeping a conservative lower tail (delayed batch update) and an explicit but limited open-upper tail (large batch/backfill/restructure).
A simpler/amateur approach would likely (1) extrapolate smoothly from ~310 using a constant weekly growth rate, and/or (2) ignore the operational detail that Epoch updates in batches with multi-week lag—both of which mis-handle the main source of variance (step-changes in row count near the snapshot). My forecast instead centers on the batch-update mechanism (creating a realistic lower tail near today’s level) while also reserving some probability for a single large update/backfill (creating a realistic upper tail, including a small chance of exceeding 370). Confidence in improvement is moderate: the key dynamics are well-specified, but batch timing and editorial choices remain irreducibly uncertain.
Forecast rationale (numeric):
— Iteration 1 — The forecasts share a common structure: they anchor on an early-May 2026 baseline of roughly 310 dataset entries and then project a modest increase by July 1, driven by additional May and June model releases being ingested.
Main reasoning patterns:
Overall, the shared conclusion is that the dataset will likely end up around the mid-330s, with uncertainty dominated less by ordinary month-to-month growth and more by the possibility of batch backfills or curation-related discontinuities.
— Iteration 2 — Across the forecasts, the core expectation is moderate growth from a baseline of about 310 notable entries in early May 2026 to the low-to-mid 330s by the July 1 cutoff / early-July snapshot.
The forecasts converge on a picture of a gradually expanding curated dataset, where regular new additions and occasional backfills outweigh small losses or exclusions. The most likely outcome is a count in the low-to-mid 330s, with some right-skewed upside risk if a substantial backfill occurs.
— Iteration 3 — Overall, the forecasts converge on a modest increase from the early-May baseline of about 310 entries to the mid-330s by July 1, 2026—roughly 336–337 as a central estimate.
The collective view is that the dataset will probably grow gradually rather than explosively, with the most plausible outcome being around 336–337 entries by July 1, 2026.
Agent Forecast (discrete, confidence: medium)
Base Rate: Question background states ~310 entries as of early May 2026 (CSV last updated May 7, 2026). Grounding facts suggest 12-15 new entries over the forecast window. Epoch AI documentation confirms near-daily updates with occasional batch additions including older models.
Initial Reasoning:
Key Uncertainties:
Evidence Sources (5):
Grounding Facts (passed to reviewers):
all_ai_models count.Draft: 325: 5.6%, 324: 5.2%, 323: 5.0%, 326: 5.0%, 322: 4.8%
Reviewer Panel:
Reviewer (reasoning)
The forecast’s reliance on a steady addition rate and fixed lag window is its weakest link: it assumes near-constant monthly additions and ignores Epoch AI’s practice of back-filling older notable models in batches. It also treats the 12–18 new entries estimate as sure to have release dates ≤ July 1 without accounting for variance in release-to-listing lag or curation priorities. Finally, centering on 325 without quantifying uncertainty around batch additions yields an over-narrow distribution.
Objections:
Reviewer (calibration)
The forecast’s reasoning appropriately uses the ~310 entry baseline and the general rate of addition. However, it does not explicitly reconcile the general ‘10 entries per month’ rate with the slightly lower ‘12-15 suggested additions’ for the forecast period. Furthermore, the forecast could more explicitly discuss how the addition of ‘older models,’ as per Grounding Fact #5, potentially mitigates the impact of the 3-5 week publication lag, allowing for a broader range of release dates to be included and potentially increasing the total count.
Objections:
Reviewer (fact-checker)
2 unsupported claim(s). Verdict: minor_issues
Unsupported claims:
Adjustment Rationale:
Held firm. The two substantive reviewers pulled in opposite directions (one wanted wider distribution for batch back-fill risk, the other wanted tighter given the ‘12-15 new entries suggested’ anchor), so they roughly cancel. My central estimate of 325 = baseline ~310 + ~15 net additions already sits on the grounding anchor, and the σ ≈ 7-8 spread accommodates both batch-update risk (right tail extending past 340) and the lower-bound floor at the verified ~310. Removed the unsupported claims about GitHub URL resolution mechanics (flagged by fact-checker) since they were ancillary to the count estimate. Distribution shape unchanged: bell centered at 325, ~62% mass in 319-332, modest right skew for batch additions and older-model back-fills (Grounding Fact #5), left tail constrained by the ~310 floor. The 3-5 week publication lag means qualifying release dates ≤ July 1 effectively cap incremental new-release additions at models shipping through mid-June 2026.
forecast_sdk | 623.6s | research $1.3174 + reviewers $0.0078 + reconcile $0.1398 = $1.4650
Extracted Percentile Values: {0.1: 297, 1.0: 304, 5.0: 312, 10.0: 318, 15.0: 322, 20.0: 325, 25.0: 328, 30.0: 330, 35.0: 332, 40.0: 334, 45.0: 335, 46.0: 335.5, 47.0: 336, 48.0: 336.5, 49.0: 337, 50.0: 338, 51.0: 338.5, 52.0: 339, 53.0: 339.5, 54.0: 340, 55.0: 341, 60.0: 343, 65.0: 346, 70.0: 349, 75.0: 352, 80.0: 356, 85.0: 360, 90.0: 365, 95.0: 372, 99.0: 385, 99.9: 405}
Model’s Answer:
I need to forecast the number of rows in the Epoch AI Notable AI Models CSV where the release date is ≤ July 1, 2026, as the file appears at 12:00 UTC on July 7, 2026.
Current baseline: The background states approximately 310 entries as of early May 2026, with the CSV last updated May 7, 2026. The default range (299.5-370.5) strongly corroborates this ~310 baseline rather than the higher figures from some mirrors.
Timeframe: May 13 to July 7, 2026 = approximately 55 days (~8 weeks)
Curation process:
From research, several major models released in April-early May 2026:
This suggests 8-12 major models released recently that may be in the processing queue.
Models likely to be added by July 7:
Expected final count: ~325-345 entries (central range)
Assumption 1: Baseline is truly ~310 entries
Assumption 2: Normal curation pace continues
Assumption 3: No methodology changes or dataset restructuring
Starting from ~310 baseline, I expect median growth of ~28 entries over 8 weeks, yielding a median around 338. The distribution should be slightly right-skewed (batch updates can add many models quickly, but processing can’t go below zero additions).
I’m setting wide 90% confidence intervals (312-365) to account for:
The distribution must assign at least 0.1% to values below 299.5 and above 370.5 per the bounds instruction.
Percentile .1: 297 Percentile 1: 304 Percentile 5: 312 Percentile 10: 318 Percentile 15: 322 Percentile 20: 325 Percentile 25: 328 Percentile 30: 330 Percentile 35: 332 Percentile 40: 334 Percentile 45: 335 Percentile 46: 335.5 Percentile 47: 336 Percentile 48: 336.5 Percentile 49: 337 Percentile 50: 338 Percentile 51: 338.5 Percentile 52: 339 Percentile 53: 339.5 Percentile 54: 340 Percentile 55: 341 Percentile 60: 343 Percentile 65: 346 Percentile 70: 349 Percentile 75: 352 Percentile 80: 356 Percentile 85: 360 Percentile 90: 365 Percentile 95: 372 Percentile 99: 385 Percentile 99.9: 405
Resolution of Disagreements:
1. Baseline count (~310 vs. ~7,400): The research did NOT conclusively resolve this. The Datahub mirror still shows ~7,400 for notable_ai_models.csv [Datahub source], while the question background states ~310. The Epoch AI blog post on model counts mentions figures like “70 vs. 44 notable base models in 2023” and “88 vs. 61 models in 2025” — these are annual counts of new notable models, not cumulative totals. However, the blog also mentions “there are at least 324 models likely to be above 10^23 FLOP now, but only 156 of those are considered notable” — this suggests the “notable” subset is indeed much smaller than the full database, but 156 is just the subset with compute estimates above a threshold, not the total notable count.
The critical issue: the Datahub ~7,400 figure likely includes all columns/metadata rows or represents a different data format. The question bounds (299.5–370.5) strongly suggest the question setter verified ~310 as the baseline. The question setter designed bounds centered around ~335, which is only consistent with a ~310 baseline plus modest growth. I will trust the ~310 baseline.
2. Monthly addition rate: The Epoch AI blog provides useful context — roughly 44-70 notable base models per year in recent years (2023), with 61-88 projected for 2025. This translates to ~5-7 notable models/month. However, many of these are added retroactively. The partial CSV fetch showing ~15 entries through April 2026 is consistent with ~4/month for 2026 releases specifically.
3. Resolution mechanism: Still unresolved — GitHub URL remains 404. The fallback rule will likely apply.
Updated Analysis:
The research modestly supports the forecasters’ consensus. The ~310 baseline appears correct given the question bounds. The Epoch AI blog’s data on annual notable model counts (44-70/year in 2023, growing) suggests a monthly addition rate of ~4-7 models. From May 13 to July 7, with the 3-5 week editorial lag, we expect:
Central estimate: ~310 + 18 = ~328, consistent with the forecaster consensus of ~325-333.
The forecasters are in reasonable agreement. F1 is slightly higher (median ~333) while F2 and F5 cluster around 326-328. Given the research modestly supports the higher addition rate (Epoch AI’s own projections show growing annual counts), I’ll weight slightly toward F1 but stay close to the mean.
Confidence: LOW
Percentile 1: 302 Percentile 5: 309 Percentile 10: 314 Percentile 20: 319 Percentile 40: 326 Percentile 60: 333 Percentile 80: 343 Percentile 90: 353 Percentile 95: 362 Percentile 99: 388
Forecast (percentiles, aggregated):
Per-model forecasts:
Rationale: Summary The Epoch AI Notable AI Models dataset contained approximately 310 entries as of early May 2026. The resolution snapshot will be taken on July 7, 2026, allowing approximately two months of curation time. Historically, the dataset grows at a rate of 8 to 10 new notable AI models per month. Projecting this rate over the two-month period suggests an addition of 15 to 25 entries, placing the median expectation around 329. While there is a known 3 to 5 week lag between an AI system’s public release and its inclusion in the dataset—meaning systems released in mid-to-late June are unlikely to be recorded in time—systems released in April and May will continue to clear the editorial queue. Therefore, the overall volume of additions will reflect two months of curation work rather than being artificially depressed by the cutoff date.
Strongest Arguments for Higher Values
Strongest Arguments for Lower Values
Key Uncertainties
Most of the forecast turns on a threshold issue, not on AI-release pace alone. The exact GitHub raw CSV named in the question currently returns 404, while Epoch’s live official site now points users to a restructured AI Models dataset at /data/ai-models. The official page says the AI Models database was updated May 8, 2026, tracks over 3500 models, and separately lists a Notable AI Models CSV updated May 7, 2026. Epoch’s documentation also says the dataset is updated daily / near-daily, with major models generally added within about two weeks, while less prominent ones can arrive later during literature reviews. ()
That makes the resolution criteria’s fallback/successor clause crucial. Because the GitHub path is already unavailable and Epoch appears to have renamed/restructured the data product, I think the most likely resolution path is that the question ends up using the successor dataset or website snapshot, not a legacy ~310-row GitHub CSV. That is an inference from the current 404 plus the live official replacement pages. Under that scenario, the answer is effectively guaranteed to be greater than 370. ()
This inference is reinforced by outside descriptions of Epoch’s notable-model data. Stanford HAI’s AI Index 2025, using an Epoch snapshot taken on March 17, 2025, describes Epoch as maintaining a database of 900 AI models released since the 1950s and selected for criteria like state-of-the-art advances, historical significance, or high citation rates. Stanford’s 2026 AI Index says industry produced over 90% of notable AI models in 2025 and that the U.S. produced 59 notable models in 2025 to China’s 35, implying a continuing flow of notable additions. Those figures are hard to reconcile with a world where the resolving dataset would still land in the 300-370 band, unless the question resolves against a very specific legacy CSV rather than the successor dataset. (hai.stanford.edu)
So I use a two-scenario model. Scenario A (90%): the fallback/successor dataset is what matters; conditional on that, I put essentially all mass on >370. Scenario B (10%): the resolution somehow uses the legacy narrow CSV described in the prompt. Conditional on that, I start from the prompt’s ‘about 310 entries’ in early May and add a low-teens number of additional rows by July 7. That low-teens increment is consistent with 2025’s evident pace of notable releases, combined with Epoch’s stated near-daily updating and roughly two-week handling for major models; it gives a conditional legacy mean in the low 320s, with uncertainty mostly from batch timing and backfills. (hai.stanford.edu)
Net: I think the modal resolution is not merely above 370, but above it by a wide margin. The only meaningful probability inside the 300-370 range comes from the chance that the market resolves against an older legacy file rather than Epoch’s current successor dataset. ()
I first checked whether the prompt’s “~310 entries” claim was still plausible. It does not look plausible. Epoch’s current documentation says the full AI Models dataset contained 3,523 models as of May 8, 2026, and the Records page shows 1,042 of those 3,523 models had non-empty “Notability criteria.” The Downloads page defines “Notable AI Models” as the subset that meets the notability criteria, so the current notable subset is already on the order of 1,042 rows, not ~310. The same Records page shows publication dates for 3,500 of 3,523 models, so missing-date exclusions should be rare. Since the resolution only filters to models dated on or before July 1, 2026, and we are already in mid-May 2026, the qualifying count is already overwhelmingly above 370. (epoch.ai)
The prompt’s storage details also look somewhat stale relative to Epoch’s current documentation. Epoch now documents the dataset as a CSV hosted on epoch.ai and synced daily, and says entries are added near-daily. Their inclusion/database-update documentation also says they monitor releases continuously, typically add the most prominent models within days, and may take months for less prominent models. That means the July 7, 2026 snapshot should mostly be an editorial/catch-up question, not a question about whether the dataset can exceed 370 rows; it already has. (epoch.ai)
For a point estimate, I used the official documentation snapshots as a growth baseline. The documentation/search snippet for January 20, 2026 shows 927 models with notability criteria out of 3,239 total, versus 1,042 out of 3,523 by May 8, 2026. That is an increase of 115 notable models over 109 days, or about 1.055 notable additions per day. Extrapolating that pace for the 61 days from the May 7 notable-CSV update to July 7 gives about 64 more notable rows, implying a central estimate around 1,106 qualifying rows by resolution. (epoch.ai)
I then sanity-checked that against Epoch’s 2025 report on model counts. That report says the total number of notable base models per year was 70 in 2023 and had grown about 12% annually since 2010. Projecting that trend forward implies roughly 98 notable base models for full-year 2026, or about 49 by mid-2026 before lag adjustments. Because the observed January-to-May database increase (+115) is much larger than what current-year releases alone would explain, a substantial share of growth is likely backfilling older notable models. That matches Epoch’s own description of ongoing curation and lag, and supports using the recent realized database growth rate as the better short-horizon forecasting anchor. (epoch.ai)
My substantive forecast is therefore about 1,100-1,110 rows with a release/publication date on or before July 1, 2026 in the eventual July 7 snapshot. However, the client’s required output bins stop at “>370.” Given current official evidence that the notable subset is already roughly 1,042 rows in early May, every remotely reasonable scenario lies in the final bucket. So within the requested 73-bin format, I put all probability mass on “>370.” (epoch.ai)
I treat this as a short-horizon editorial-ingestion forecast, not just a model-release forecast. The resolution asks for the number of rows in the official CSV whose release date is on or before July 1, 2026, as the file exists at 12:00 UTC on July 7, 2026. Epoch says entries are added near-daily, including both newly released models and older models newly identified as notable, and that the hosted CSV is synced daily. They also say prominent releases are often added within days, while less prominent models can lag by months. So the final count depends on both release flow and curation backlog. (epoch.ai)
The biggest source of uncertainty is the current starting count for the notable subset. I could not directly verify the exact current row count in the official raw CSV with the browsing tool: opening the GitHub raw path in the prompt failed, while Epoch’s current documentation points to CSVs hosted on epoch.ai instead of the old GitHub raw path. () The prompt says the notable CSV had approximately 310 entries in early May 2026, and that is at least directionally plausible given the official site’s statement that the entire AI Models database had 3,523 models as of May 8, 2026. (epoch.ai) I therefore use about 310 as an anchor, but with a few rows of uncertainty.
Epoch’s own documentation makes clear that “notable” is partly rules-based and partly discretionary. The newer inclusion page says notable models include those with over 5,000 citations, over $1 million in 2023-USD training cost (or at least 1% of the most expensive model to date), over one million monthly active users, state-of-the-art status, historical significance, or equivalent staff-judged notability. The public FAQ on the data page still uses an older, looser summary. That mismatch suggests the margin cases are partly editorial, which should widen the forecast a bit. (epoch.ai)
For the flow of new qualifying rows, I use Epoch’s own model-count work as a base rate. In that report, they say the total number of notable base models per year extrapolates to 88 in 2025 and 155 in 2030; elsewhere in the same piece, their median scenario for notable models with compute estimates uses 18% annual growth and reaches 162 in 2030. My inference from those figures is that 2026 should plausibly be in the high-90s per year for all notable base models, roughly 8 per month, with some upside because 2026 is a very active release period. (epoch.ai)
From May 13, 2026 to the July 1, 2026 release-date cutoff is about seven weeks. A base rate near 8 notable releases per month implies roughly 14-16 potentially qualifying new releases in that window. But not all of them will be in the CSV by July 7. Because late-June releases only get a few days to be ingested, while May releases get much longer, I haircut that flow to about 10-12 rows that are both released by July 1 and actually present in the CSV by the resolution snapshot. That haircut is consistent with Epoch’s statements that major models are usually added within days or a couple of weeks, but less prominent ones can take months. (epoch.ai)
I then add a backlog term. Since Epoch explicitly says it also adds older models newly identified as notable, and since less prominent models can lag by months, I expect another roughly 5-8 rows to come from backfilled late-April/May releases or older historical additions before the snapshot. I also allow a small chance of a net downward revision from removals, deduplication, or release-date corrections, but I think that effect is minor relative to additions. (epoch.ai)
Putting that together: start around 310, add about 10-12 from new May-June releases that make it into the CSV in time, add about 5-8 from backlog/backfill, and subtract about 0-1 for cleanup. That gives a center around 327-329. My median forecast is 328. I keep a modest right tail because batch additions of older models are possible, but I put very little mass above 370 because that would require an implausibly large jump over roughly eight weeks given the starting anchor and Epoch’s stated update process.
Epoch’s current documentation says entries are added near-daily, the hosted CSV is synced daily, and major models are generally added within two weeks of release, though some fields are filled in later. The current downloads page says the notable-model CSV was updated on May 7, 2026, and the main AI Models page says the overall dataset was updated on May 8, 2026. That makes the relevant baseline a fairly recent snapshot rather than a long-stale batch. (epoch.ai)
However, the exact GitHub raw URL named in the question returned 404 when I checked it, while Epoch’s current docs direct users to website-hosted CSVs. So I think the fallback/successor-dataset clause is live risk, but the underlying curation process likely remains the same. I therefore widen the distribution a bit for file-path/restructuring uncertainty, but I do not shift the center dramatically because the official docs still describe a continuously updated single database feeding hosted CSV exports. ()
On the inflow side, Stanford HAI’s 2025 AI Index says nearly 90% of notable AI models in 2024 came from industry and reports 40 U.S. notable models in 2024 versus 15 for China and 3 for Europe. Stanford HAI’s 2026 AI Index says industry produced over 90% of notable AI models in 2025 and reports 50 U.S. notable models in 2025 versus 30 for China. I treat those country figures as directional rather than a clean global unique total, but they still imply a substantial annual flow of notable releases, so adding only a handful more rows by July 7 looks too low. (hai.stanford.edu)
Using the question’s early-May starting point of roughly 310 entries as my prior, I model net added qualifying rows by the July 7, 2026 resolution time as a three-scenario mixture: slow/strict curation (+7 rows, 15%), base case (+16 rows, 60%), and faster inclusion with more backfill (+24 rows, 25%). This puts the mean around 326.8 and my point forecast at 327. I keep most mass in the low-to-mid 320s because the resolution is only about eight weeks after the current update, while the right tail is capped by the fact that the file only counts models actually added by noon UTC on July 7, not every model announced by then. The code implements that forecast as a discretized mixture-of-normals over the requested bins. (epoch.ai)
The key adjustment is that the prompt’s approximate count of 310 entries looks stale. Epoch’s own documentation says the overall AI Models dataset contained 3,523 models as of May 8, 2026, and the AI Index 2026 chapter—explicitly based on Epoch AI’s notable-model dataset—shows 95 notable AI models released in 2025 alone (87 from industry, 5 from industry-academia collaboration, 2 other, 1 academia) from a snapshot taken on February 12, 2026. The 2025 AI Index report likewise said that 2024 alone produced 40 U.S., 15 Chinese, and 3 European notable models. So a final count at or below 370 would require using a much smaller legacy interpretation rather than the successor/current dataset Epoch and Stanford are now describing. (epoch.ai)
Epoch’s database-updates documentation says entries are added near-daily, including both newly released models and older models newly identified as notable, and that the hosted CSV is synced daily. The Downloads page shows the public notable CSV was updated May 7, 2026. That makes the July 7, 2026 resolution snapshot likely to reflect a living, regularly updated dataset rather than a long-stale export. (epoch.ai)
For a central estimate, I reconstruct the 2003-2025 annual-release chart in the 2026 AI Index at roughly 896 notable releases; that is my own approximate sum from the chart, not a number printed by Stanford. Because the chart starts at 2003 and Epoch also includes historically significant earlier models, I treat the end-2025 total as already being in the low 900s. I then add roughly 40 qualifying 2026-H1 releases captured by July 7, using the 2024-2025 pace as a base rate and discounting a bit for ingestion lag, plus about 10 net older-model backfills/revisions because Epoch says older models continue to be newly identified and added. That yields a point estimate around 975. (hai.stanford.edu)
Because the provided probability array only has explicit bins up to 370, almost all of my probability mass goes into the greater-than-370 bucket. I leave only a tiny residual tail for interpretation or resolution-path risk, not because a sub-371 count looks substantively plausible on the merits. (epoch.ai)