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What our editors are watching.
Editor-featured AI companies, ranked by NeuronFeed score. Refreshed weekly.
OpenAI
Creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the leading frontier AI lab.
Anthropic
AI safety lab building Claude — a helpful, harmless, honest AI assistant.
Perplexity
AI-powered answer engine delivering real-time, cited responses to complex queries.
Cursor
The AI code editor built for productive engineers.
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.
CVPR 2026
The flagship computer vision conference where every major breakthrough in visual AI is unveiled each summer.
AI Engineer World's Fair 2026
The biggest annual conference for AI engineers and builders, curated by swyx and the Latent Space team in San Francisco.
ICML 2026
The International Conference on Machine Learning, a tier-one ML research venue that moves to Seoul for its 43rd edition.
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Recent rounds.
8 verified rounds totalling $3.9B in fresh capital. Sorted newest first.
What's happening in AI.
Curated headlines from across the ecosystem. 6 fresh stories — refreshed daily.
OpenAI Improves ChatGPT Safety with Context-Aware Risk Detection
OpenAI launched new safety features that help ChatGPT recognize evolving risks across conversations by analyzing subtle warning signs and maintaining safety summaries for high-risk situations.
OpenAI brings Codex AI coding assistant to mobile phones
OpenAI launched Codex mobile preview in ChatGPT apps, letting developers manage AI coding work remotely across laptops and cloud environments with real-time sync.
Hugging Face Spaces hits 1.3 million AI apps as platform becomes go-to directory
Hugging Face's Spaces platform now hosts over 1.3 million AI applications, establishing itself as the largest directory for machine learning demos and tools.
Anthropic launches Claude Code agentic coding system
Anthropic released Claude Code, an autonomous coding agent that reads codebases, makes multi-file changes, runs tests, and commits code without line-by-line guidance.
Higgsfield Launches "Supercomputer" — One Chat, 30+ AI Models, Zero Tool-Hopping
Higgsfield AI just unveiled Supercomputer — a single chat-driven workspace that picks the right video and image model for you, plans the shot, and renders it. Routes between Sora 2, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, Cinema Studio 3.5, Soul, Nano Banana Pro and more.
Perplexity upgrades Search API with better extraction and dynamic benchmarks
Perplexity enhanced its Search API with improved snippet quality, span-level evaluation, and multi-query support while outperforming competitors on time-sensitive retrieval benchmarks.
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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