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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 3 Aug 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 · 46 in window · 45% of score
  • Coverage · 426 in window · 27% of score
  • Event involvement · 94 in window · 27% of score
100
2 Anthropic
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 46 in window · 50% of score
  • Event involvement · 78 in window · 25% of score
  • Coverage · 345 in window · 24% of score
90
3 Google
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 34 in window · 58% of score
  • Event involvement · 49 in window · 25% of score
  • Coverage · 159 in window · 18% of score
58
4 NVIDIA
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 24 in window · 63% of score
  • Event involvement · 25 in window · 19% of score
  • Coverage · 103 in window · 18% of score
38
5 Meta
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 24 in window · 66% of score
  • Event involvement · 23 in window · 19% of score
  • Coverage · 88 in window · 16% of score
36
6 Microsoft
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 24 in window · 67% of score
  • Event involvement · 24 in window · 20% of score
  • Coverage · 70 in window · 13% of score
35
7 Hugging Face
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 23 in window · 71% of score
  • Coverage · 83 in window · 17% of score
  • Event involvement · 14 in window · 13% of score
32
8 Amazon
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 15 in window · 64% of score
  • Event involvement · 17 in window · 21% of score
  • Coverage · 53 in window · 15% of score
23
9 Apple
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 17 in window · 73% of score
  • Event involvement · 11 in window · 14% of score
  • Coverage · 47 in window · 13% of score
23
10 Alibaba
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 16 in window · 78% of score
  • Event involvement · 9 in window · 13% of score
  • Coverage · 27 in window · 9% of score
20
11 DeepSeek
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 15 in window · 75% of score
  • Event involvement · 11 in window · 16% of score
  • Coverage · 27 in window · 9% of score
20
12 Moonshot AI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 16 in window · 81% of score
  • Coverage · 36 in window · 12% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 7% of score
20
13 xAI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 14 in window · 75% of score
  • Event involvement · 10 in window · 16% of score
  • Coverage · 28 in window · 10% of score
19
14 Google DeepMind
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 13 in window · 76% of score
  • Event involvement · 9 in window · 15% of score
  • Coverage · 24 in window · 9% of score
17
15 SpaceX
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 72% of score
  • Event involvement · 10 in window · 19% of score
  • Coverage · 19 in window · 8% of score
15
16 Sakana AI
Top factors
  • Event involvement · 21 in window · 42% of score
  • Coverage · 83 in window · 37% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 21% of score
14
17 Moonshot
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 12 in window · 83% of score
  • Coverage · 19 in window · 9% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 8% of score
14
18 Cursor
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 79% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 13% of score
  • Coverage · 15 in window · 9% of score
11
19 Perplexity
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 87% of score
  • Coverage · 11 in window · 7% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 6% of score
10
20 OpenRouter
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 79% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 15% of score
  • Coverage · 10 in window · 6% of score
10
21 AMD
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 79% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 12% of score
  • Coverage · 14 in window · 9% of score
10
22 Thinking Machines Lab
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 80% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 15% of score
  • Coverage · 9 in window · 6% of score
10
23 Thinking Machines
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 80% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 15% of score
  • Coverage · 8 in window · 5% of score
10
24 Mistral
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 83% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 9% of score
  • Coverage · 12 in window · 8% of score
10
25 Tesla
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 84% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 9% of score
  • Coverage · 9 in window · 6% of score
9
26 AWS
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 63% of score
  • Event involvement · 6 in window · 19% of score
  • Coverage · 26 in window · 18% of score
9
27 IBM
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 75% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 16% of score
  • Coverage · 13 in window · 9% of score
9
28 GitHub
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 79% of score
  • Coverage · 16 in window · 12% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 10% of score
9
29 YouTube
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 82% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 10% of score
  • Coverage · 10 in window · 8% of score
8
30 ByteDance
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 84% of score
  • Coverage · 11 in window · 9% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 7% of score
8
31 Cloudflare
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 84% of score
  • Coverage · 11 in window · 9% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 7% of score
8
32 LinkedIn
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 86% of score
  • Coverage · 9 in window · 7% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 7% of score
8
33 Slack
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 74% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 14% of score
  • Coverage · 15 in window · 12% of score
8
34 Samsung
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 81% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 12% of score
  • Coverage · 8 in window · 7% of score
7
35 Google Cloud
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 85% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 8% of score
  • Coverage · 7 in window · 7% of score
7
36 Substack
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 75% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 18% of score
  • Coverage · 7 in window · 7% of score
7
37 MiniMax
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 77% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 18% of score
  • Coverage · 5 in window · 5% of score
6
38 Pangram
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 78% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 14% of score
  • Coverage · 8 in window · 8% of score
6
39 Instagram
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 79% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 14% of score
  • Coverage · 7 in window · 7% of score
6
40 Amazon Web Services
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 65% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 24% of score
  • Coverage · 11 in window · 12% of score
6

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 3 Aug 2026 · historical snapshots stay available via the week links above.

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