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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 31 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 · 32 in window · 29% of score
  • Coverage · 160 in window · 17% of score
  • Event involvement · 30 in window · 17% of score
100
2 Anthropic
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 30 in window · 46% of score
  • Event involvement · 24 in window · 23% of score
  • Coverage · 99 in window · 18% of score
60
3 Google
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 19 in window · 45% of score
  • Relationship growth · 288 in window · 25% of score
  • Event involvement · 11 in window · 17% of score
38
4 NVIDIA
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 20 in window · 50% of score
  • Event involvement · 13 in window · 21% of score
  • Relationship growth · 163 in window · 15% of score
36
5 ▲1 Meta
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 17 in window · 55% of score
  • Event involvement · 10 in window · 21% of score
  • Coverage · 31 in window · 12% of score
28
6 ▲1 HappyRobot
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 10 in window · 65% of score
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 24% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 7% of score
26
7 ▼2 Hugging Face
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 16 in window · 59% of score
  • Relationship growth · 199 in window · 26% of score
  • Coverage · 23 in window · 10% of score
25
8 ▲1 Amazon
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 14 in window · 54% of score
  • Event involvement · 9 in window · 22% of score
  • Coverage · 28 in window · 13% of score
23
9 ▲2 Olix
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 8 in window · 72% of score
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 19% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 6% of score
19
10 ▼2 Microsoft
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 12 in window · 62% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 13% of score
  • Relationship growth · 72 in window · 13% of score
18
11 ▲2 SpaceX
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 50% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 27% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 11% of score
16
12 ▼2 Google DeepMind
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 65% of score
  • Relationship growth · 71 in window · 15% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 11% of score
15
13 ▲3 Discovery Loop
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 46% of score
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 38% of score
  • Coverage · 9 in window · 7% of score
14
14 ▲1 AWS
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 49% of score
  • Event involvement · 6 in window · 27% of score
  • Relationship growth · 51 in window · 13% of score
13
15 ▼3 Apple
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 56% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 18% of score
  • Coverage · 16 in window · 13% of score
13
16 ▲1 Alibaba
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 65% of score
  • Relationship growth · 74 in window · 19% of score
  • Coverage · 12 in window · 11% of score
12
17 ▲4 AMD
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 70% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 15% of score
  • Coverage · 9 in window · 8% of score
12
18 ▲5 Cloudflare
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 64% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 15% of score
  • Coverage · 15 in window · 14% of score
11
19 Alphabet
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 77% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 11% of score
  • Coverage · 10 in window · 10% of score
11
20 ▲7 Uber
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 65% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 24% of score
  • Coverage · 8 in window · 9% of score
10
21 ▲9 Mistral
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 54% of score
  • Relationship growth · 63 in window · 25% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 14% of score
8
22 ▲6 Nscale
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 68% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 22% of score
  • Coverage · 6 in window · 8% of score
8
23 ▲8 DeepMind
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 68% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 15% of score
  • Coverage · 7 in window · 10% of score
8
24 ▼4 DeepSeek
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 61% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 16% of score
  • Coverage · 8 in window · 12% of score
7
25 ▲7 Etched
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 47% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 37% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 8% of score
7
26 ▲12 DHL
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 66% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 25% of score
  • Coverage · 5 in window · 8% of score
7
27 ▼1 Amazon Web Services
Top factors
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 64% of score
  • Source diversity · 1 in window · 13% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 9% of score
7
28 new Z.ai
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 55% of score
  • Event involvement · 4 in window · 35% of score
  • Coverage · 5 in window · 8% of score
7
29 ▼7 xAI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 42% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 27% of score
  • Relationship growth · 29 in window · 15% of score
6
30 ▲7 Stripe
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 77% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 10% of score
  • Coverage · 5 in window · 9% of score
6
31 ▼13 Moonshot AI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 64% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 20% of score
  • Coverage · 4 in window · 8% of score
6
32 ▼3 Moonshot
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 85% of score
  • Coverage · 5 in window · 10% of score
  • Relationship growth · 8 in window · 5% of score
5
33 ▲3 Samsung
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 51% of score
  • Event involvement · 3 in window · 33% of score
  • Coverage · 4 in window · 8% of score
5
34 new Mistral AI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 52% of score
  • Relationship growth · 50 in window · 31% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 11% of score
5
35 ▼1 Reddit
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 71% of score
  • Coverage · 6 in window · 13% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 11% of score
5
36 ▼11 Perplexity
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 72% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 11% of score
  • Coverage · 4 in window · 9% of score
5
37 new Liquid AI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 75% of score
  • Event involvement · 1 in window · 12% of score
  • Coverage · 4 in window · 9% of score
5
38 new Salesforce
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 57% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 24% of score
  • Relationship growth · 14 in window · 10% of score
5
39 new GitHub
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 58% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 25% of score
  • Coverage · 4 in window · 9% of score
5
40 new Oracle
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 60% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 26% of score
  • Coverage · 3 in window · 7% of score
4

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 31 Aug 2026 · movement is measured against the week of 24 Aug 2026 · historical snapshots stay available via the week links above.

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