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  "unit": "companies",
  "snapshot": "2026-09-23",
  "query": "queries/places.json",
  "note": "AI companies by headquarters country, top 15 per cohort; rest and no-country complete each cohort. before: a country outside the top 15 could tie or rank; check the list before: the largest candidate not shown has 121; companies in no candidate country: 455 class: a country outside the top 15 could tie or rank; check the list class: the largest candidate not shown has 131; companies in no candidate country: 521",
  "coverage": [
    {
      "year": 2016,
      "all_count": 5468,
      "ai_count": 25
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "all_count": 4786,
      "ai_count": 31
    },
    {
      "year": 2018,
      "all_count": 4168,
      "ai_count": 20
    },
    {
      "year": 2019,
      "all_count": 3145,
      "ai_count": 13
    },
    {
      "year": 2020,
      "all_count": 2502,
      "ai_count": 5
    },
    {
      "year": 2021,
      "all_count": 1856,
      "ai_count": 7
    },
    {
      "year": 2022,
      "all_count": 954,
      "ai_count": 5
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "all_count": 820,
      "ai_count": 8
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "all_count": 540,
      "ai_count": 6
    },
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "all_count": 333,
      "ai_count": 5
    },
    {
      "year": 2026,
      "all_count": 39,
      "ai_count": 0
    }
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  "coverage_note": "All companies and AI companies headquartered in China, by founding year.",
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      "share": 0.1265,
      "share_of_known": 0.133
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    {
      "cohort": "before",
      "group": "United Kingdom",
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      "share": 0.0631,
      "share_of_known": 0.0664
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      "cohort": "before",
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      "share": 0.0397,
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      "share": 0.0385,
      "share_of_known": 0.0405
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    {
      "cohort": "before",
      "group": "France",
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      "share": 0.0283,
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    },
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      "cohort": "before",
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      "cohort": "before",
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      "cohort": "before",
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      "cohort": "before",
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      "cohort": "before",
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      "cohort": "before",
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      "cohort": "before",
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      "cohort": "before",
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      "cohort": "before",
      "group": "United Arab Emirates",
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      "cohort": "class",
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      "cohort": "class",
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      "cohort": "class",
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