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Top 10 Private AI Companies — 2026

Daily-refreshed rankings across ~3,000 US private AI companies, Seed through Series D. Scored on six structural criteria with a momentum overlay derived from operational signals (GitHub activity, model releases, hiring velocity, compute contracts). Free per-company profiles with email.

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The Top 10

  1. #1AI Infrastructure· late

    NVIDIA CORP

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    72.3

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  2. #2AI LLM/Foundation Models· acquired

    Meta Platforms

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    71.9

    AI LLM/Foundation Models · acquired

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  3. #3AI LLM/Foundation Models· public

    Tencent

    Score

    71.6

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  4. #4AI Infrastructure· public

    Salesforce

    Score

    71.2

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  5. #5AI Edge Computing· late

    Super Micro Computer

    Score

    70.6

    AI Edge Computing · late

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  6. #6AI LLM/Foundation Models· public

    ByteDance

    Score

    70.5

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  7. #7AI HR/Recruiting· public

    Dynatrace

    Score

    70.0

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  8. #8AI LLM/Foundation Models· late

    OpenAI

    Score

    68.6

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  9. #9AI NLP· public

    Google Research

    Score

    67.9

    AI NLP · public

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  10. #10AI Autonomous Systems· series_a

    Woven by Toyota

    Score

    67.7

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  11. #11AI Other· public

    Meta Research

    Score

    67.6

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  12. #12

    crewAIInc

    Score

    67.0

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  13. #13AI Developer Tools· public

    Unity Technologies

    Score

    66.9

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  14. #14AI Other· public

    Amazon

    Score

    66.6

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  15. #15AI Education· public

    DAIR.AI

    Score

    66.5

    AI Education · public

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  16. #16AI Hardware/Chips· public

    Alibaba

    Score

    65.9

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  17. #17AI Infrastructure· series_b

    Kong

    Score

    65.9

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  18. #18AI Other· late

    Genesis AI

    Score

    65.9

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  19. #19AI LLM/Foundation Models· acquired

    Red Hat

    Score

    65.8

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  20. #20AI Developer Tools· public

    Accelq

    Score

    65.5

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  21. #21

    RasaHQ

    Score

    65.2

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  22. #22AI Developer Tools· series_b

    MOSTLY AI

    Score

    65.0

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  23. #23AI Sales/Marketing· late

    SalesPlay

    Score

    65.0

    AI Sales/Marketing · late

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  24. #24AI Infrastructure· series_c

    Lightning AI

    Score

    64.6

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  25. #25AI LLM/Foundation Models· public

    Meta Llama

    Score

    64.6

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  26. #26AI NLP· late

    Explosion

    Score

    64.6

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  27. #27AI Developer Tools· growth

    Hugging Face

    Score

    64.5

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  28. #28AI Other· late

    Vercel

    Score

    64.5

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  29. #29AI LLM/Foundation Models· series_a

    Meilisearch

    Score

    64.4

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  30. #30AI Agents· seed

    Inceptionlabs

    Score

    64.4

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  31. #31

    TransformerOptimus

    Score

    64.2

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  32. #32AI Search· public

    Opportunitydesk

    Score

    64.1

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  33. #33

    datawhalechina

    Score

    63.9

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  34. #34AI Image Generation· late

    Stability AI

    Score

    63.8

    AI Image Generation · late

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  35. #35AI Developer Tools· public

    Keras

    Score

    63.8

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  36. #36AI HR/Recruiting· growth

    Euronews

    Score

    63.8

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  37. #37AI Infrastructure· acquired

    OptimalScale

    Score

    63.7

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  38. #38AI Agents· series_b

    LangChain

    Score

    63.7

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  39. #39

    NVlabs

    Score

    63.7

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  40. #40

    cvat-ai

    Score

    63.7

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  41. #41AI Education

    Dive into Deep Learning (D2L.ai)

    Score

    63.7

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  42. #42AI Infrastructure· seed

    Pathway

    Score

    63.5

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  43. #43

    dagster-io

    Score

    63.5

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  44. #44AI LLM/Foundation Models· public

    Google Cloud Platform

    Score

    63.3

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  45. #45

    Unstructured-IO

    Score

    63.3

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  46. #46AI Search· series_b

    Jina AI

    Score

    63.1

    AI Search · series_b

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  47. #47AI Other· public

    Sector Snapshot

    Score

    63.0

    AI Other · public

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  48. #48AI Search· seed

    Zapier

    Score

    63.0

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  49. #49AI Other· public

    Enterprise AI Companies

    Score

    62.9

    AI Other · public

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  50. #50AI Edge Computing· series_a

    Xiaomi

    Score

    62.8

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