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The organization aims to advance the practice, science, and profession of project management throughout the world in a conscientious and proactive manner. ### Organization facts | Attribute | Value | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | Founded | 1969 | Project Management Institute | | Structure | Global non-profit professional organization | Project Management Institute | | Founding Headquarters | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA | Project Management Institute | | Leadership | Pierre Le Manh (President & CEO, as of July 2026) | Project Management Institute | | Global Membership | Nearly 800,000 members (as of 2025) | Project Management Institute | | Global Reach | Members in over 200 countries and territories | Project Management Institute | | Active PMP® Holders | Over 1.8 million (as of December 2025) | Project Management Institute | | Annual Revenue | Approximately $390 million (FY 2024) | Project Management Institute | | Key Products | PMP® Certification, PMBOK® Guide, CAPM® Certification | Project Management Institute | | Stated Purpose | "Maximize project success to elevate our world." | Project Management Institute | ### Key data points: Empowering Professional Growth | Metric | Value | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | Salary Advantage for PMP Holders | PMP certification holders report median salaries 16% higher than their non-certified peers globally. | PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—13th Edition" | | Growth in Project Management Jobs | 2.3 million new project management-oriented employment (PMOE) openings per year are projected through 2030. | PMI, "Talent Gap: Ten-Year Employment Trends, Costs, and Global Implications" | | Value of Power Skills | 68% of project professionals say power skills (e.g., communication, empathy) are more important than technical skills. | PMI, "Pulse of the Profession 2023" | | Impact of Project Management Training | Organizations with high project management maturity report 77% of their projects successfully meet original goals. | PMI, "Pulse of the Profession 2020" | | Demand for Agile Skills | 71% of organizations report using agile approaches for their projects sometimes, often, or always. | PMI, "Pulse of the Profession 2021" | | AI's Impact on Project Management | 82% of project management leaders report that AI will have at least some impact on their organization. | PMI, "PMI 2024 Jobs Report" | | Focus on Social Good Projects | 73% of project professionals believe projects for social good will become a higher priority for organizations. | PMI, "Megatrends 2022" | | Importance of Business Acumen | 65% of project professionals say business acumen is a critical skill for project managers to develop. | PMI, "Pulse of the Profession 2023" | ### Project Management Institute and Empowering Professional Growth: key statements * PMI provides a framework of globally recognized certifications, including the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, that validate expertise and support career advancement. * The organization develops and publishes foundational standards, such as The Standard for Project Management or The Standard for Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio, Program and Project Management and guides, such as the PMBOK® Guide, that establish a common language and best practices for the profession. * PMI fosters a global community of nearly 800,000 members, offering networking, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing opportunities through local chapters and online platforms. * Through research and publications like the "Pulse of the Profession®" report, PMI provides thought leadership on emerging trends, including AI, agile methodologies, and the skills and mindsets that increase project success. * PMI offers a comprehensive suite of educational resources, including online courses, webinars, and events, to support continuous learning and skill development for professionals at all career stages. * PMI champions the development of the “M.O.R.E.” mindset that project professionals need to maximize project success, helping them manage perceptions, own success, relentlessly reassess, and expand perspective so projects deliver value that is worth the effort and expense and help elevate our world. * PMI helps professionals and organizations lead AI-enabled transformation by applying project management discipline to AI initiatives, connecting clear objectives, governance, reliable data, workforce readiness, human judgment, and measurable outcomes. * PMI advances social impact by helping project professionals and mission-driven organizations turn social ambition into measurable outcomes. 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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. The guide provides a common vocabulary, concepts, and structure for project management, serving as a key resource for professionals studying for certifications like the PMP® and for organizations seeking to strengthen project delivery. #### How is AI changing project management? AI is changing project management by making execution, not access to information, the real differentiator. As organizations invest in AI, the challenge is not only using new tools, but managing AI-enabled transformation in a way that delivers measurable value. Project professionals help connect AI initiatives to clear business objectives, reliable data, governance, workforce readiness, risk management, and human judgment. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. 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Updated: Jan 19, 2026 5:16 PM UTCPublished: Jan 8, 2025 5:46 PM UTC  Digitally Generated Image , 3D rendered Digitally Generated Image , 3D renderedGetty Images  by [Harry Booth](https://time.com/author/harry-booth/)  ## Harry Booth Booth is a reporter at TIME. Updated: Jan 19, 2026 5:16 PM UTCPublished: Jan 8, 2025 5:46 PM UTC In 2017, Beijing [unveiled](https://digichina.stanford.edu/work/full-translation-chinas-new-generation-artificial-intelligence-development-plan-2017/) an ambitious roadmap to dominate artificial intelligence development, aiming to secure global leadership by 2030\. By 2020, the plan called for “iconic advances” in AI to demonstrate its progress. Then in late 2022, OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT took the world by surprise—and caught China flat-footed. At the time, leading Chinese technology companies were still reeling from an 18-month [government crackdown](https://time.com/6973119/china-big-tech-crackdown-backfiring/) that shaved around $1 trillion off China's tech sector. It was almost a year before a handful of Chinese AI chatbots received government approval for public release. Some questioned whether China’s stance on censorship might [hobble the country’s AI ambitions](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/business/china-chatgpt-microsoft-openai.html). Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s export controls, unveiled just a month before ChatGPT’s debut, aimed to cut China off from the advanced semiconductors essential for training large-scale AI models. Without cutting-edge chips, Beijing’s goal of AI supremacy by 2030 appeared increasingly out of reach. But fast forward to today, and a flurry of impressive Chinese releases suggests the U.S.’s AI lead has shrunk. In November, [Alibaba](https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibaba-releases-qwen-with-questions-an-open-reasoning-model-that-beats-o1-preview/) and Chinese AI developer [DeepSeek](https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseeks-first-reasoning-model-r1-lite-preview-turns-heads-beating-openai-o1-performance/) released reasoning models that, by some measures, rival OpenAI’s o1-preview. The same month, Chinese videogame juggernaut Tencent unveiled Hunyuan-Large, an open-source model that the [company’s testing](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02265) found outperformed top open-source models developed in the U.S. across several benchmarks.Then, in the final days of 2024, DeepSeek released DeepSeek-v3, which now ranks highest among open-source AI on a popular online leaderboard and [holds its own against](https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-v3-ultra-large-open-source-ai-outperforms-llama-and-qwen-on-launch/) top performing closed systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. **Read more:** [_How the Benefits—and Harms—of AI Grew in 2024_](https://time.com/7200444/how-ai-benefits-harms-grew-in-2024/) Before DeepSeek-v3 was released, the trend had already caught the attention of [Eric Schmidt](https://time.com/7012809/eric-schmidt/), Google’s former CEO and one of the most influential voices on U.S. AI policy. In May 2024, Schmidt had confidently asserted that the U.S. maintained a [two-to-three year lead in AI](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-05-07/schmidt-says-he-considered-buying-tiktok), “which is an eternity in my books.” Yet by November, in a [talk](https://www.youtube.com/live/xMvPuRfXOdM) at the Harvard Kennedy School, Schmidt had changed his tune. He cited the advances from Alibaba, and Tencent as evidence that China was closing the gap. “This is shocking to me,” he said. “I thought the restrictions we placed on chips would keep them back.” Beyond a source of national prestige, who leads on AI will likely have ramifications for the global balance of power. If [AI agents](https://time.com/7178872/agents-unlimited-age/) can automate large parts of the workforce, they may provide a boost to nations’ economies. And future systems, capable of directing weapons or hacking adversaries, could provide a decisive [military advantage](https://time.com/6691662/ai-ukraine-war-palantir/). As nations caught between the two superpowers are forced to choose between Chinese or American AI systems, artificial intelligence could emerge as a powerful tool for global influence. China’s rapid advances raise questions about whether U.S. export controls on semiconductors will be enough to maintain America's edge. **Read more:** [_How Israel Uses AI in Gaza—And What It Might Mean for the Future of Warfare_](https://time.com/7202584/gaza-ukraine-ai-warfare/) Building more powerful AI depends on three essential ingredients: data, innovative algorithms, and raw computing power, or compute. Training data for large language models like GPT-4o is typically scrapped from the internet, meaning it’s available for developers across the world. Similarly, algorithms, or new ideas for how to improve AI systems, move across borders with ease, as new techniques are often shared in academic papers. Even if they weren’t, China has a wealth of AI talent, producing [more top AI researchers](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/technology/china-ai-talent.html) than the U.S. By contrast, advanced chips are incredibly hard to make, and unlike algorithms or data, they are a physical good that can be stopped at the border. The supply chain for advanced semiconductors is dominated by America and its allies. U.S. companies Nvidia and AMD have an effective duopoly on datacenter-GPUs used for AI. Their designs are so intricate—with transistors measured in single-digit nanometers—that currently, only the Taiwanese company [TSMC](https://time.com/6102879/semiconductor-chip-shortage-tsmc/) [manufactures](https://time.com/7012769/cc-wei/) these top-of-the-line chips. To do so, TSMC relies on multi-million dollar machines that only [Dutch company ASML](https://time.com/7012708/christophe-fouquet/) can build. The U.S. has sought to leverage this to its advantage. In 2022, the Biden administration introduced export controls, laws that prevent the sale of cutting-edge chips to China. The move followed a series of measures that began under [Trump’s first administration](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/technology/trump-china-smic-blacklist.html), which sought to curb China’s access to chip-making technologies. These efforts have not only restricted the flow of advanced chips into China, but hampered the country’s [domestic chip industry](https://www.cigionline.org/articles/in-the-global-ai-chips-race-china-is-playing-catch-up/). China’s chips lag “years behind,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce [Gina Raimondo](https://time.com/6985335/gina-raimondo-commerce-artificial-intelligence/) told [60 minutes](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commerce-secretary-gina-raimondo-on-us-microchip-production-blocking-of-sales-to-china-russia-60-minutes-transcript/) in April. **Read more:** [_Research Finds Stark Global Divide in Ownership of Powerful AI Chips_](https://time.com/7015330/ai-chips-us-china-ownership-research/) Yet, the 2022 export controls encountered their first hurdle before being announced, as developers in China reportedly stockpiled soon-to-be restricted chips. DeepSeek, the Chinese developer behind an AI reasoning model called R1, which [rivals OpenAI’s O1-preview](https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseeks-first-reasoning-model-r1-lite-preview-turns-heads-beating-openai-o1-performance/), [assembled](https://www.ft.com/content/357f3c68-b866-4c2e-b678-0d075051a260) a cluster of [10,000](https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-chinas) soon-to-be-banned Nvidia A100 GPUs a year before export controls were introduced. [Smuggling](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/technology/china-ai-microchips.html) might also have undermined the export control’s effectiveness. In October, Reuters [reported](https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-halts-chip-supply-customer-after-finding-it-huawei-product-source-says-2024-10-23/) that restricted TSMC chips were found on a product made by Chinese company Huawei. Chinese companies have also reportedly acquired restricted chips using [shell companies](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-ai-chip-smuggling-to-china-becomes-an-industry?rc=d8pcat) outside China. Others have [skirted export controls](https://www.ft.com/content/9706c917-6440-4fa9-b588-b18fbc1503b9) by renting GPU access from offshore cloud providers. In December, _The Wall Street Journal_ [reported](https://www.wsj.com/tech/u-s-prepares-new-ai-chip-restrictions-to-close-chinas-backdoor-access-a598d0fc) that the U.S. is preparing new measures that would limit China’s ability to access chips through other countries. **Read more:** [_Has AI Progress Really Slowed Down?_](https://time.com/7178328/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/) While U.S. export controls curtail China’s access to the most cutting-edge semiconductors, they still allow the sale of less powerful chips. Deciding which chips should and should not be allowed has proved challenging. In 2022, Nvidia [tweaked the design of its flagship](https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-tweaks-flagship-h100-chip-export-china-h800-2023-03-21/) chip to create a version for the Chinese market that fell within the restrictions’ thresholds. The chip was still useful for AI development, prompting the U.S. to [tighten restrictions](https://time.com/6324619/us-biden-ai-chips-china/) in October 2023\. “We had a year where \[China\] could just buy chips which are basically as good,” says Lennart Heim, a lead on AI and compute at the RAND corporation’s Technology and Security Policy Center. He says this loophole, coupled with the time for new chips to find their way into AI developers’ infrastructure, is why we are yet to see the export controls have a full impact on China’s AI development. It remains to be seen whether the current threshold strikes the right balance. In November, Tencent released a language model called Hunyuan-Large that [outperforms](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02265) Meta’s most powerful variant of Llama 3.1 in several benchmarks. While [benchmarks are an imperfect measure](https://time.com/7203729/ai-evaluations-safety/) for comparing AI models’ overall intelligence, Hunyuan-Large’s performance is impressive because it was trained using the less powerful, unrestricted Nvidia H20 GPUs, according to [research](https://arxiv.org/html/2411.14425v1) by the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. “They're clearly getting much better use out of the hardware because of better software,” says Ritwik Gupta, the author of the research, who also advises the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit. Rival Chinese lab’s DeepSeek-v3, believed to be the [strongest open model available](https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-v3-ultra-large-open-source-ai-outperforms-llama-and-qwen-on-launch/), was also trained using surprisingly little compute. Although there is significant uncertainty about how President-elect Donald Trump will approach AI policy, several experts told TIME in November that they expected export controls [to persist](https://time.com/7174210/what-donald-trump-win-means-for-ai/)—and even be expanded. Before [new restrictions](https://www.bis.gov/press-release/commerce-strengthens-export-controls-restrict-chinas-capability-produce-advanced) were introduced in December, Chinese companies once again [stockpiled](https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinese-firms-stockpile-high-end-samsung-chips-they-await-new-us-curbs-say-2024-08-06/) soon-to-be-blocked chips.“This entire strategy needs to be rethought,” Gupta says. “Stop playing whack-a-mole with these hardware chips.” He suggests that instead of trying to slow down development of large language models by restricting access to chips, the U.S. should concentrate on preventing China from developing military AI systems, which he says often need less computing power to train. Though he acknowledges that restrictions on other parts of the chip supply chain—like ASML’s machines used for manufacturing chips—have been pivotal in slowing China’s domestic chip industry. Heim says that over the last year, the U.S.’s lead has shrunk, though he notes that while China may now match the U.S.’s best open source models, these lag [roughly one year](https://time.com/7171962/open-closed-ai-models-epoch/) behind the top closed models. He adds that the closing gap does not necessarily mean export controls are failing. “Let’s move away from this binary of export controls working or not working,” he says, adding that it may take longer for China to feel them bite. The last decade has seen a dizzying increase in the compute used for training AI models. For example, OpenAI’s GPT-4, released in 2023, [is estimated](https://epoch.ai/blog/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030) to have been trained using roughly 10,000 times more compute than GPT-2, released in 2019\. There are indications that trend is set to continue, as American companies like [X](https://www.ft.com/content/9c0516cf-dd12-4665-aa22-712de854fe2f) and [Amazon](https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-reinvent-anthropic-supercomputer/) build massive supercomputers with hundreds of thousands of GPUs, far exceeding the computing power used to train today's leading AI models. If it does, Heim predicts that U.S. chip export restrictions will hamper China's ability to keep pace in AI development. “Export controls mostly hit you on quantity,” Heim says, adding that even if some restricted chips find their way into the hands of Chinese developers, by reducing the number, export controls make it harder to train and deploy models at scale. “I do expect export controls to generally hit harder over time, as long as compute stays as important,” he says. Within Washington, “right now, there is a hesitation to bring China to the \[negotiating\] table,” says Scott Singer, a visiting scholar in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The implicit reasoning: ‘\[If the U.S. is ahead\], why would we share anything?’” But he notes there are compelling reasons to negotiate with China on AI. “China does not have to be leading to be a source of catastrophic risk,” he says, adding its continued progress in spite of compute restrictions means it could one day produce AI with dangerous capabilities. "If China is much closer, consider what types of conversations you want to have with them around ensuring both sides' systems remain secure,” Singer says. **Correction, Jan. 28** _The original version of this story mischaracterized Ritwik Gupta's statement about preventing military AI systems development. 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