The State of AI in Austria 2026
The flagship: cover, headline finding, six findings, chapter overview, and back matter. Composed in Typst from the same data as this website.
The master report and six per-chapter PDFs, every artefact in the same V4.0 design system as this website — cream paper, Fraunces serif, navy ink, hairline rules.
The flagship: cover, headline finding, six findings, chapter overview, and back matter. Composed in Typst from the same data as this website.
Each chapter as a standalone PDF, sharing the same design. Ideal for circulating a single dimension to a stakeholder.
The question is no longer whether Austria has AI talent. It is whether the base is growing fast enough, retaining enough, and diffusing broadly enough.
A cliff, not a slope. The pipeline enters balanced and collapses upward — at +0.3pp/yr, parity is 60 years away.
Retention is solid at 67 %. The real story is frontier leakage: 18 % of Build, 26 % of NLP/GenAI, half gone within twelve months.
Top-10 on quality. Mid-pack on quantity. Second-slowest salary growth in Western Europe. The gap is horizontal, not vertical.
Not a graduate cohort, a mid-career professional class. A 62% Analyst+Senior backbone — and a 9% entry-level floor with a hidden pay inversion at the top.
Vienna–Graz–Linz holds 90%+ of Core AI. Graz's Core share (~45%) beats Vienna's (~39%). The corridor is the only viable axis.