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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.
Cursor
The AI code editor built for productive engineers.
OpenAI
Creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the leading frontier AI lab.
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.
SIGGRAPH 2026
The 53rd annual ACM computer graphics conference where AI for graphics and visual effects converge in Los Angeles.
World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2026
Industry AI event
ACL 2026
The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the worlds top NLP research conference.
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Hand-picked deals from indexed startups. Verified codes, no expiry tricks. Updates every Monday.
Jasper
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ElevenLabs
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Recent rounds.
8 verified rounds totalling $3.2B in fresh capital. Sorted newest first.
What's happening in AI.
Curated headlines from across the ecosystem. 6 fresh stories — refreshed daily.
GitHub investigating unauthorized access to internal repositories
GitHub disclosed it is investigating unauthorized access to internal repositories but says no evidence yet shows customer data outside internal systems was compromised.
Google launches Gemini for Science AI tools for research workflows
Google unveiled three experimental AI tools under Gemini for Science to help researchers generate hypotheses, run computational tests, and analyze scientific literature more efficiently.
Google announces Wear OS 7 with Gemini Intelligence integration
Google unveiled Wear OS 7 at I/O 2026, integrating Gemini Intelligence APIs and introducing dynamic Wear Widgets to replace traditional tiles.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash with 300 tokens per second output speed
Google's new Gemini 3.5 Flash model outputs nearly 300 tokens per second while matching frontier model performance, potentially saving companies billions in AI costs.
Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash powers new AI-first Search box
Google deployed an AI-powered Search box globally at I/O 2026, running on Gemini 3.5 Flash and accepting multimodal inputs including images, files and Chrome tabs.
Google launches Gemini Spark agentic AI assistant for Workspace automation
Google unveiled Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI agent that performs tasks across Gmail, Docs, and third-party apps, rolling out to testers this week before reaching Google AI Ultra subscribers.
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.
Y Combinator
Mountain View The world's leading startup accelerator, founded 2005. Has funded 5,000+ companies including Airbnb, Stripe, OpenAI, and Dropbox.
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.
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.
Sequoia Capital
Menlo Park Legendary venture firm founded 1972. Early backer of Apple, Google, Stripe, WhatsApp, and many of the largest AI companies.
Khosla Ventures
Menlo Park Founded 2004 by Vinod Khosla. Thesis-driven firm with long conviction on AI, energy, and bio. Early OpenAI investor.
Accel
Palo Alto Global venture firm founded 1983 with offices in Palo Alto, London, and Bangalore. Early investor in Facebook, Slack, Dropbox, and many AI tools.
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