Do companies that contribute to AI research and open source tools and models outperform their peers in the public market? Here are a few reasons why it is a really powerful signal and contributes to our recently-launched AI Index's outperformance. 🧵👇

Major research breakthroughs are happening in industry rather than academia. Eight of the top ten most-cited AI research papers last year hail from companies, with all but one of the papers premiering a new model or application.