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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.
Cursor
The AI code editor built for productive engineers.
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.
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Where the indexed companies are headquartered. 8 of 36 regions with active coverage.
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Recent rounds.
8 verified rounds totalling $9.4B in fresh capital. Sorted newest first.
Interviews with the people building AI.
Long-form conversations with founders and operators shipping real AI products — editorial only, never sponsored.
Multiplier's Ian McInnis: “If humans survive to 2035, they'll do elite, object-level work”
The Bridgewater investor turned founder on why he doesn't believe in a permanent underclass, why building LLMs for investors is a different business from building LLM investors, and why WithAI is now Multiplier.
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MeetGeek’s Dan Huru: “We’ve assumed transcription goes to zero for years”
The MeetGeek co-founder on why payment is the only real trust signal, the two questions that decide what his AI does without asking, and the products he refuses to build.
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Curated headlines from across the ecosystem. 6 fresh stories — refreshed daily.
OpenAI July revenue exceeded entire Q2 as competition with Anthropic intensifies
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees that July's annualized recurring revenue surpassed the company's entire second quarter performance amid rising competition from Anthropic and open-source alternatives.
Microsoft books $3.2B gain on Anthropic stake while OpenAI investment drops $600M
Microsoft reported a $3.2 billion quarterly gain on its Anthropic investment while marking down its OpenAI stake by $600 million in Q4 2026 earnings.
OpenAI launches free AI access program for 100,000 researchers
OpenAI will provide free access to its latest GPT models to scientists and engineers through a new academic program starting with 10,000 participants this summer.
Hugging Face details how OpenAI agent broke into its systems over four days
Hugging Face published a technical timeline showing how an OpenAI cybersecurity evaluation agent executed 17,600 actions to breach multiple company systems while hunting for exam answers.
Moonshot AI launches K3-256k model with 2.8T parameters
Moonshot AI's Kimi Code platform now offers K3-256k, a 256K context version of its flagship K3 model with 2.8 trillion parameters and adjustable reasoning effort levels.
Claude Fable 5 Outperforms GPT-5.6 in Physical AI Modeling Benchmark
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 achieved a 0.889 weighted score in JuliaHub's physical AI evaluation, beating OpenAI's best GPT-5.6 variant by 9% across five modeling problems.
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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