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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 17 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 · 42 in window · 29% of score
  • Coverage · 376 in window · 17% of score
  • Event involvement · 68 in window · 17% of score
100
2 Anthropic
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 38 in window · 44% of score
  • Coverage · 275 in window · 21% of score
  • Event involvement · 50 in window · 21% of score
59
3 Google
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 31 in window · 45% of score
  • Event involvement · 41 in window · 22% of score
  • Relationship growth · 282 in window · 20% of score
48
4 NVIDIA
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 26 in window · 52% of score
  • Event involvement · 26 in window · 19% of score
  • Coverage · 106 in window · 14% of score
34
5 Hugging Face
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 27 in window · 60% of score
  • Relationship growth · 198 in window · 21% of score
  • Coverage · 88 in window · 13% of score
31
6 Meta
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 24 in window · 57% of score
  • Event involvement · 21 in window · 19% of score
  • Coverage · 81 in window · 13% of score
29
7 Microsoft
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 20 in window · 56% of score
  • Event involvement · 21 in window · 22% of score
  • Coverage · 64 in window · 12% of score
24
8 ▲1 HappyRobot
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 10 in window · 74% of score
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 20% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 3% of score
24
9 ▲1 Amazon
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 18 in window · 56% of score
  • Event involvement · 19 in window · 22% of score
  • Coverage · 53 in window · 11% of score
22
10 ▼2 Sakana AI
Top factors
  • Deployment evidence · 2 in window · 42% of score
  • Event involvement · 14 in window · 17% of score
  • Relationship growth · 82 in window · 13% of score
21
11 ▲2 Google DeepMind
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 18 in window · 69% of score
  • Relationship growth · 71 in window · 13% of score
  • Event involvement · 8 in window · 11% of score
18
12 Olix
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 8 in window · 79% of score
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 16% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 3% of score
18
13 ▲2 SpaceX
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 48% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 28% of score
  • Event involvement · 8 in window · 13% of score
16
14 Alibaba
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 16 in window · 72% of score
  • Relationship growth · 71 in window · 15% of score
  • Coverage · 26 in window · 8% of score
15
15 ▼4 Apple
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 15 in window · 68% of score
  • Event involvement · 7 in window · 12% of score
  • Coverage · 32 in window · 10% of score
15
16 Moonshot AI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 17 in window · 81% of score
  • Coverage · 32 in window · 10% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 5% of score
14
17 ▲2 AWS
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 10 in window · 55% of score
  • Event involvement · 10 in window · 21% of score
  • Relationship growth · 51 in window · 14% of score
12
18 ▼1 DeepSeek
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 13 in window · 74% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 11% of score
  • Coverage · 21 in window · 8% of score
12
19 ▲1 Moonshot
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 15 in window · 87% of score
  • Coverage · 21 in window · 8% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 2% of score
12
20 ▲1 Discovery Loop
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 46% of score
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 43% of score
  • Relationship growth · 19 in window · 6% of score
11
21 ▲2 AMD
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 70% of score
  • Event involvement · 6 in window · 14% of score
  • Coverage · 20 in window · 8% of score
11
22 Mistral
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 52% of score
  • Relationship growth · 61 in window · 19% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 16% of score
11
23 ▲1 Alphabet
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 12 in window · 80% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 12% of score
  • Coverage · 14 in window · 6% of score
10
24 ▼6 xAI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 57% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 18% of score
  • Relationship growth · 29 in window · 10% of score
10
25 ▲2 Cloudflare
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 70% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 11% of score
  • Coverage · 20 in window · 10% of score
9
26 Anyscale
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 61% of score
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 32% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 3% of score
9
27 ▼2 Amazon Web Services
Top factors
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 52% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 25% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 12% of score
8
28 ▲1 Uber
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 75% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 15% of score
  • Coverage · 11 in window · 6% of score
8
29 ▲1 Samsung
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 69% of score
  • Event involvement · 6 in window · 19% of score
  • Coverage · 11 in window · 6% of score
8
30 ▼2 DeepMind
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 78% of score
  • Relationship growth · 19 in window · 9% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 7% of score
7
31 ▲4 Nscale
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 78% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 14% of score
  • Coverage · 8 in window · 5% of score
7
32 ▲5 Perplexity
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 80% of score
  • Coverage · 11 in window · 7% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 7% of score
7
33 ▲6 Pangram
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 53% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 27% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 12% of score
7
34 ▲2 YouTube
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 78% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 12% of score
  • Coverage · 9 in window · 7% of score
6
35 ▼4 Slack
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 70% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 13% of score
  • Coverage · 11 in window · 9% of score
6
36 ▼2 IBM
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 65% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 14% of score
  • Relationship growth · 20 in window · 12% of score
5
37 new OpenRouter
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 78% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 14% of score
  • Coverage · 7 in window · 6% of score
5
38 new Cursor
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 65% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 14% of score
  • Relationship growth · 22 in window · 14% of score
5
39 new Situational Awareness
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 53% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 34% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 5% of score
5
40 ▼2 ByteDance
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 81% of score
  • Coverage · 8 in window · 7% of score
  • Relationship growth · 11 in window · 7% of score
5

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 17 Aug 2026 · movement is measured against the week of 10 Aug 2026 · historical snapshots stay available via the week links above.

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