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What our editors are watching.
Editor-featured AI companies, ranked by NeuronFeed score. Refreshed weekly.
Anthropic
AI safety lab building Claude — a helpful, harmless, honest AI assistant.
OpenAI
Creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the leading frontier AI lab.
Harvey
The AI platform for elite law firms.
Perplexity
AI-powered answer engine delivering real-time, cited responses to complex queries.
Top categories.
100 hand-curated slices of the AI ecosystem. Updated weekly.
By country.
Where the indexed companies are headquartered. 8 of 36 regions with active coverage.
Don't miss these AI conferences.
Editor-picked must-attend events from our 2026 calendar. Add to your Google Calendar in one click.
AAAI 2026
The 40th annual conference from the Association for the Advancement of AI, spanning the full breadth of AI research.
NVIDIA GTC 2026
The annual GPU Technology Conference where Jensen Huang sets the global agenda for AI computing and accelerated hardware.
ICLR 2026
The International Conference on Learning Representations heads to Rio de Janeiro for its first South American edition.
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Hand-picked deals from indexed startups. Verified codes, no expiry tricks. Updates every Monday.
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Recent rounds.
8 verified rounds totalling $4.1B in fresh capital. Sorted newest first.
What's happening in AI.
Curated headlines from across the ecosystem. 6 fresh stories — refreshed daily.
Researchers Build Compliance-Grade LLM Stack for Fraud Detection and AML
New research demonstrates workload-aware LLM serving architecture that improved fraud detection throughput from 650 to 3,600 requests per hour while reducing latency by 80%.
ReVision Method Cuts Computer-Use Agent Token Usage by 46%
New research introduces ReVision, a technique that reduces visual token consumption in computer-use agents by nearly half while improving performance across three benchmarks.
ReAD Framework Uses Reinforcement Learning to Optimize AI Model Distillation
Researchers propose ReAD, a reinforcement-guided capability distillation framework that uses contextual bandits to efficiently compress large language models while preserving task-relevant abilities and reducing harmful capability spillover.
PIVOT Framework Cuts AI Agent Planning Failures by 94%
Researchers introduce PIVOT, a self-supervised framework that iteratively refines AI agent trajectories through environment feedback, achieving up to 94% improvement in constraint satisfaction while using 3-5x fewer tokens than competing methods.
Stanford Researchers Develop Analogical Reasoning Method to Boost LLM Scientific Creativity
Stanford researchers created an analogical reasoning approach that improves large language model diversity in scientific problem-solving by 90-173%, generating novel solutions over 50% of the time compared to 1.6% for baseline methods.
Vision-Language Models Show Systematic Bias From Embedded Numbers in Images
New research reveals that numeric anchors embedded in images create systematic bias in Vision-Language Model quality judgments, with effects 2.5 times larger than severe image degradation across six different models.
The top 10 right now.
Highest-scoring AI startups across the index. Score weighs traction, funding, team, and shipping cadence.
Backing the index.
The funds writing checks into AI right now. Sorted by tracked investment count.
Andreessen Horowitz
Menlo Park a16z — Silicon Valley firm founded 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. One of the most active backers of AI startups.
Sequoia Capital
Menlo Park Legendary venture firm founded 1972. Early backer of Apple, Google, Stripe, WhatsApp, and many of the largest AI companies.
General Catalyst
Cambridge General Catalyst is a venture and growth-equity firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. Founded in 2000, the firm manages more than $43 billion in assets and closed roughly $8 billion of new capital in Fund XII, including $4.5 billion for core VC and $1.5 billion for its AI-roll-up Creation strategy. Notable AI investments include Anthropic, Mistral AI, Hippocratic AI, and Helsing. Recent activity: a $1 billion non-dilutive financing for Grammarly in May 2025.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Menlo Park Multi-stage global firm founded 2000. Active across consumer, enterprise, and AI. Backed Snap, Grubhub, and Affirm.
NVIDIA
Santa Clara Strategic AI infrastructure investor — Cohere, Inflection, Together AI, Mistral AI.
Kleiner Perkins
Menlo Park Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, focused on early- and growth-stage technology investing. Founded in 1972, the firm manages over $21 billion in assets and in March 2026 closed $3.5 billion across two AI-focused vehicles: $1 billion for KP22 (early stage) and $2.5 billion for KP Select IV (growth). Notable AI investments include Anthropic, Stripe, Databricks, Waymo, and Rogo. Recent activity: leading Rogo's $160 million Series D for an AI operating system for investment banking.
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