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AI Momentum Top 40

The AI companies moving fastest in TLDRocket's own coverage: stories, events, funding, deployments and new relationships over the trailing window — with source diversity weighted above raw volume.

Snapshot of week of 14 Sep 2026 other weeks: 14 Sep 7 Sep 31 Aug 24 Aug 17 Aug 10 Aug 3 Aug

# Δ Company Score
1 OpenAI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 40 in window · 29% of score
  • Coverage · 406 in window · 17% of score
  • Event involvement · 98 in window · 17% of score
100
2 Anthropic
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 37 in window · 42% of score
  • Event involvement · 70 in window · 19% of score
  • Coverage · 245 in window · 16% of score
63
3 Hugging Face
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 32 in window · 45% of score
  • Funding activity · 8 in window · 34% of score
  • Event involvement · 28 in window · 10% of score
51
4 Google
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 27 in window · 48% of score
  • Relationship growth · 124 in window · 18% of score
  • Event involvement · 29 in window · 13% of score
40
5 NVIDIA
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 23 in window · 42% of score
  • Relationship growth · 153 in window · 22% of score
  • Coverage · 144 in window · 15% of score
40
6 Meta
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 23 in window · 50% of score
  • Relationship growth · 77 in window · 14% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 2 in window · 13% of score
33
7 ▲4 Apple
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 15 in window · 46% of score
  • Relationship growth · 70 in window · 17% of score
  • Event involvement · 19 in window · 14% of score
23
8 ▼1 Amazon
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 14 in window · 47% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 2 in window · 20% of score
  • Relationship growth · 50 in window · 14% of score
21
9 ▼1 Wonderful
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 8 in window · 85% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 11% of score
  • Relationship growth · 8 in window · 2% of score
20
10 ▼1 OpenRouter
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 4 in window · 43% of score
  • Source diversity · 12 in window · 43% of score
  • Event involvement · 7 in window · 6% of score
20
11 ▼1 Microsoft
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 15 in window · 61% of score
  • Event involvement · 15 in window · 15% of score
  • Relationship growth · 43 in window · 14% of score
18
12 SpaceX
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 54% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 15% of score
  • Event involvement · 10 in window · 12% of score
15
13 SiliconANGLE
Top factors
  • Event involvement · 45 in window · 58% of score
  • Coverage · 94 in window · 29% of score
  • Relationship growth · 18 in window · 8% of score
14
14 ▲2 Perplexity
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 44% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 16% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 16% of score
13
15 ▲14 Google DeepMind
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 12 in window · 69% of score
  • Event involvement · 9 in window · 13% of score
  • Relationship growth · 27 in window · 12% of score
13
16 ▼2 Cursor
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 47% of score
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 35% of score
  • Relationship growth · 16 in window · 8% of score
12
17 new Mistral AI
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 4 in window · 72% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 18% of score
  • Relationship growth · 13 in window · 6% of score
12
18 ▲3 Z.ai
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 66% of score
  • Event involvement · 11 in window · 16% of score
  • Relationship growth · 21 in window · 10% of score
12
19 ▼1 Stripe
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 12 in window · 73% of score
  • Event involvement · 7 in window · 10% of score
  • Relationship growth · 18 in window · 9% of score
12
20 ▼3 Alibaba
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 10 in window · 61% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 18% of score
  • Event involvement · 6 in window · 9% of score
12
21 new Cognition
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 44% of score
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 38% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 8% of score
11
22 ▼7 DeepSeek
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 71% of score
  • Event involvement · 7 in window · 11% of score
  • Relationship growth · 21 in window · 11% of score
11
23 Groq
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 47% of score
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 40% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 5% of score
11
24 ▼4 Tesla
Top factors
  • Deployment evidence · 3 in window · 62% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 21% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 7% of score
10
25 Etched
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 63% of score
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 28% of score
  • Relationship growth · 7 in window · 4% of score
10
26 ▲1 Wispr
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 64% of score
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 28% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 4% of score
10
27 ▲9 Nscale
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 65% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 22% of score
  • Relationship growth · 11 in window · 6% of score
10
28 ▼4 Amazon Web Services
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 59% of score
  • Relationship growth · 32 in window · 19% of score
  • Event involvement · 7 in window · 13% of score
10
29 ▼1 Gravis Robotics
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 70% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 23% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 4% of score
9
30 new Uber
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 10 in window · 79% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 10% of score
  • Coverage · 13 in window · 6% of score
9
31 GitHub
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 75% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 10% of score
  • Coverage · 14 in window · 7% of score
9
32 ▲2 Thinking Machines
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 76% of score
  • Source diversity · 2 in window · 17% of score
  • Relationship growth · 5 in window · 3% of score
9
33 new Mistral
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 51% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 25% of score
  • Relationship growth · 20 in window · 14% of score
9
34 ▼1 Spirit Airlines
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 51% of score
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 43% of score
  • Coverage · 5 in window · 2% of score
8
35 ▼9 AWS
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 53% of score
  • Event involvement · 10 in window · 22% of score
  • Relationship growth · 21 in window · 15% of score
8
36 new Salesforce
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 65% of score
  • Relationship growth · 20 in window · 15% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 11% of score
8
37 The Information
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 69% of score
  • Event involvement · 9 in window · 22% of score
  • Coverage · 13 in window · 8% of score
7
38 Crusoe
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 59% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 30% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 5% of score
7
39 ▲1 IBM
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 71% of score
  • Relationship growth · 19 in window · 16% of score
  • Coverage · 14 in window · 8% of score
7
40 ▼21 xAI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 71% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 13% of score
  • Coverage · 13 in window · 8% of score
7

Methodology

Scope. All companies TLDRocket covers.

Computation. Updated weekly (Monday morning) over the trailing 30 days of TLDRocket's own coverage — no external data, no generated scores. Companies need at least 3 visible stories in the window to be ranked (minimum data threshold); the top 40 are kept. Each factor below is normalized 0–1 against the highest value in that week's candidate set, multiplied by its weight, and summed into the score. Ties break on raw coverage, then company name.

Not investment advice. A ranking measures how much a company is being written about, nothing else. It says nothing about the quality of a business, its shares or its prospects, and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything.

Factor Weight What it counts
Coverage 0.15 Visible stories linked to the company in the window.
Source diversity 0.25 Distinct publications behind that coverage — the anti-gaming counterweight to raw volume.
Event involvement 0.15 Named events in the window whose coverage involves the company.
Funding activity 0.15 Funding rounds raised by the company in the window.
Deployment evidence 0.15 Real-world deployments tracked with the company as vendor in the window — independent validation beyond announcements.
Relationship growth 0.15 New source-backed relationships involving the company in the window.

Anti-gaming. Source diversity is weighted above raw coverage, so press-release volume from a single outlet cannot dominate the ranking on its own. Deployment evidence, funding rounds and new relationships add independent validation beyond announcement counts.

Snapshot of week of 14 Sep 2026 · movement is measured against the week of 7 Sep 2026 · historical snapshots stay available via the week links above.

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