AI Release Data (shared)

This folder holds one shared dataset, data.json, consumed by six MicroSims in docs/sims/. It is not itself a MicroSim (no main.html), so it does not appear in navigation or the MicroSims gallery.

Editing data.json updates every dependent sim the next time its page is loaded — no need to edit each sim's JavaScript.

Source

AI Release Tracker — Analytics, retrieved 2026-09-11. Figures cover 249 major model releases across 11 frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, SpaceXAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Moonshot AI, Z.ai, Qwen, NVIDIA) since ChatGPT launched on November 30, 2022.

Per-quarter and per-month figures were read directly from that site's chart tooltips (it has no public data export/API) and cross-validated: monthly values sum to the published quarterly totals, quarterly values sum to the published yearly totals, and everything sums to the published grand total of 249 releases.

Schema

{
  "meta": { "title": "...", "totalReleases": 249, "labs": ["OpenAI", "..."] },
  "source": { "name": "...", "url": "...", "retrieved": "YYYY-MM-DD" },
  "years":     [ { "label": "2022", "value": 1, "partial": false } ],
  "months":    [ { "label": "Nov 22", "monthName": "November", "year": 2022,
                   "value": 1, "cumulative": 1, "partial": false } ],
  "quarters":  [ { "label": "Q4 22", "total": 1, "byLab": { "OpenAI": 1, "...": 0 } } ],
  "labTotals": [ { "lab": "OpenAI", "value": 44 } ],
  "dayOfWeek": [ { "day": "Monday", "value": 48, "weekend": false } ]
}

• years[].partial / months[].partial mark the current in-progress period; pair with asOf (years only) for a tooltip note.
• months[].cumulative is precomputed (running sum) so consumers don't need to recompute it.
• quarters[].byLab keys always include every lab in meta.labs, using 0 for labs that shipped nothing that quarter.

Dependent MicroSims

• ai-releases-by-year — uses years
• ai-releases-cumulative — uses months (cumulative)
• ai-release-frequency-monthly — uses months (value)
• ai-releases-by-lab-over-time — uses quarters
• ai-releases-by-lab — uses labTotals
• ai-releases-by-day-of-week — uses dayOfWeek

Updating

To refresh with newer figures from the source site, append new months entries (recomputing cumulative), extend quarters and years as periods close out, and update labTotals and dayOfWeek. Re-run the per-sim validation in microsim-utils after editing.