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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.
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OpenAI DevDay 2026
OpenAI flagship developer conference where new APIs, models, and platform capabilities are unveiled to the builder community.
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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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Candy AI
−70%Massive 70% off Candy AI Premium — personalized AI companion chat with voice and image generation.
Recent rounds.
8 verified rounds totalling $9.6B 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.
What's happening in AI.
Curated headlines from across the ecosystem. 6 fresh stories — refreshed daily.
Box CEO Aaron Levie says tech executives suffer from AI psychosis
Box founder Aaron Levie argues CEOs are prone to AI delusions because they're too distant from actual implementation work to understand what can realistically be automated.
MiniMax Releases M2 Series: 230B Parameter Model with 9.8B Active Tokens
Chinese AI lab MiniMax unveiled its M2 series of mixture-of-experts language models, with the flagship containing 229.9 billion total parameters but activating only 9.8 billion per token.
Researchers Develop CUDAnalyst to Decode AI Agent Planning in GPU Code Generation
New research introduces CUDAnalyst, an analysis framework that reveals how AI agents make planning decisions when generating CUDA kernel code by isolating and attributing different feedback signals.
Anthropic Launches Claude Tag for Slack Team Collaboration
Anthropic released Claude Tag, a Slack integration that lets teams delegate tasks to Claude as an autonomous team member with access to channels, tools, and codebases.
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño custom inference chip
OpenAI partnered with Broadcom to develop Jalapeño, a custom AI chip optimized for large language model inference to boost performance and efficiency.
Mistral Ships OCR 4 Document Intelligence Tool Supporting 170 Languages
Mistral AI launched OCR 4, a document intelligence system that extracts structured content with bounding boxes and confidence scores across 170 languages, claiming 4x speed improvements over competitors.
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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