AI Market Intelligence
The AI Market Index reads 63 this week — down 3 on last week and cooling, moved mostly by stories (-5 pts). Investors disclosed $346.1B across 184 rounds in 30 days, ahead of the quarterly pace at 1.8× — led by Anthropic's up to about $100 billion ipo. AI Safety is the fastest-moving story (208 stories in 14 days, up 122), and Companies & Products carries the most coverage at 22% of stories.
Computed Fri 18 Sep, 08:38 from source-backed records — refreshes all day.
One number for how loud the AI economy is this week — canonical events, story volume and disclosed money, blended into a 0–100 composite.
What moved it: Stories -5 pts Events +1 pts Funding +1 pts
Events ▲ 4%
233 this week
Stories ▼ 18%
559 this week
Disclosed funding ▲ 40%
$56,628M this week
Methodology v1: weekly composite of canonical events (40%), visible stories (30%) and disclosed funding (30%), each normalized against the busiest week in the 12-week window. Inputs are counts of source-backed records — no external market data.
Where money actually moved — every figure extracted from sourced funding and acquisition coverage, never estimated.
Last 30 days
$346.1B
disclosed across 184 rounds
Average cheque
$2.5B
140 disclosed amounts · 30d
Last 90 days
$1,116.3B
disclosed across 311 rounds
seed × 81 acquisition × 60 other × 59 series a × 37 series b × 29 late stage × 21 series c × 19 ipo × 5
Read Dealmaking is running at 1.8× the quarterly pace — the market is getting busier; early-stage rounds lead, 118 to 86 late-stage this quarter.
From extracted funding rounds — undisclosed amounts count toward round totals only.
856 canonical events entered the record in 30 days. What kind of month was it — shipping, dealmaking, research or governance?
Funding × 349 Partnership × 213 Acquisition × 45 Feature update × 45 Model release × 43 Other × 23
Read Deals outnumber shipping events 4.4:1 — a consolidation-heavy month. Governance and risk make up 6% of the record.
Topics adding stories faster than their own trailing baseline — 14 days against the 14 before, with each topic's six-week trajectory.
- 1 AI Safety 208 stories · 14d ▲ 122
- 2 OpenAI 219 stories · 14d ▲ 98
- 3 AI Policy 196 stories · 14d ▲ 98
- 4 AI Adoption 221 stories · 14d ▲ 71
- 5 AI Governance 211 stories · 14d ▲ 66
- 6 Business Funding 255 stories · 14d ▲ 63
- 7 Enterprise AI 198 stories · 14d ▲ 59
- 8 AI Assistants 125 stories · 14d ▲ 50
Read AI Safety is pulling away — 208 stories in two weeks, 122 more than the prior two; OpenAI follows at +98.
Category momentum
Which beats carry the coverage — visible stories per category, 30 days against the 30 before.
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Companies & Products 600 stories · 30d ▲ 28%
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Business & Funding 461 stories · 30d ▲ 19%
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Tools & Coding 386 stories · 30d ▼ 1%
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Safety & Ethics 376 stories · 30d ▲ 22%
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Policy & Regulation 287 stories · 30d ▲ 54%
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Models & Research 233 stories · 30d ▼ 17%
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Hardware & Infrastructure 223 stories · 30d ▲ 42%
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Industry & Applications 172 stories · 30d ▼ 21%
Read Companies & Products leads with 22% of 30-day coverage; the fastest riser is Policy & Regulation at +54%.
Every number on this page derives from source-backed records elsewhere on TLDRocket; historical inputs remain reproducible from the underlying items, events and rounds. Nothing here is investment advice.