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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 7 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 · 38 in window · 29% of score
  • Coverage · 356 in window · 17% of score
  • Event involvement · 102 in window · 17% of score
100
2 Anthropic
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 34 in window · 41% of score
  • Event involvement · 67 in window · 18% of score
  • Relationship growth · 133 in window · 17% of score
63
3 ▲4 Hugging Face
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 33 in window · 47% of score
  • Funding activity · 8 in window · 32% of score
  • Event involvement · 27 in window · 9% of score
54
4 ▼1 Google
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 26 in window · 42% of score
  • Relationship growth · 112 in window · 19% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 2 in window · 15% of score
47
5 ▼1 NVIDIA
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 21 in window · 34% of score
  • Relationship growth · 140 in window · 24% of score
  • Coverage · 152 in window · 16% of score
47
6 ▼1 Meta
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 24 in window · 51% of score
  • Relationship growth · 65 in window · 14% of score
  • Coverage · 94 in window · 13% of score
36
7 ▲1 Amazon
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 14 in window · 47% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 15% of score
  • Relationship growth · 40 in window · 14% of score
22
8 new Wonderful
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 8 in window · 84% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 11% of score
  • Relationship growth · 8 in window · 3% of score
21
9 new OpenRouter
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 4 in window · 44% of score
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 42% of score
  • Event involvement · 7 in window · 6% of score
20
10 Microsoft
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 14 in window · 61% of score
  • Relationship growth · 36 in window · 16% of score
  • Event involvement · 12 in window · 12% of score
17
11 ▲4 Apple
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 12 in window · 55% of score
  • Event involvement · 16 in window · 16% of score
  • Relationship growth · 31 in window · 15% of score
16
12 ▼1 SpaceX
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 51% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 13% of score
  • Event involvement · 12 in window · 12% of score
16
13 new SiliconANGLE
Top factors
  • Event involvement · 49 in window · 54% of score
  • Coverage · 104 in window · 33% of score
  • Relationship growth · 15 in window · 8% of score
15
14 new Cursor
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 42% of score
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 40% of score
  • Relationship growth · 16 in window · 8% of score
15
15 ▲9 DeepSeek
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 13 in window · 72% of score
  • Event involvement · 9 in window · 11% of score
  • Relationship growth · 16 in window · 9% of score
14
16 ▲20 Perplexity
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 35% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 26% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 17% of score
13
17 ▼1 Alibaba
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 54% of score
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 27% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 7% of score
13
18 ▲12 Stripe
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 71% of score
  • Relationship growth · 17 in window · 11% of score
  • Event involvement · 7 in window · 10% of score
12
19 ▲10 xAI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 11 in window · 71% of score
  • Event involvement · 10 in window · 14% of score
  • Coverage · 19 in window · 8% of score
12
20 new Tesla
Top factors
  • Deployment evidence · 2 in window · 60% of score
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 26% of score
  • Relationship growth · 9 in window · 6% of score
12
21 ▲7 Z.ai
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 59% of score
  • Event involvement · 13 in window · 19% of score
  • Relationship growth · 17 in window · 12% of score
12
22 new Databricks
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 6 in window · 40% of score
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 38% of score
  • Relationship growth · 22 in window · 15% of score
11
23 new Groq
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 47% of score
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 38% of score
  • Relationship growth · 9 in window · 6% of score
11
24 ▲3 Amazon Web Services
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 55% of score
  • Relationship growth · 29 in window · 21% of score
  • Coverage · 26 in window · 12% of score
11
25 Etched
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 61% of score
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 28% of score
  • Relationship growth · 7 in window · 5% of score
11
26 ▼12 AWS
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 57% of score
  • Event involvement · 11 in window · 18% of score
  • Relationship growth · 20 in window · 15% of score
11
27 new Wispr
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 62% of score
  • Source diversity · 4 in window · 29% of score
  • Relationship growth · 5 in window · 4% of score
10
28 new Gravis Robotics
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 68% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 24% of score
  • Event involvement · 2 in window · 4% of score
9
29 ▼17 Google DeepMind
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 64% of score
  • Relationship growth · 20 in window · 17% of score
  • Event involvement · 7 in window · 13% of score
9
30 new Lovable
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 57% of score
  • Funding activity · 1 in window · 23% of score
  • Relationship growth · 13 in window · 11% of score
9
31 ▲8 GitHub
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 9 in window · 75% of score
  • Relationship growth · 11 in window · 10% of score
  • Coverage · 14 in window · 8% of score
9
32 new CrowdStrike
Top factors
  • Deployment evidence · 1 in window · 38% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 25% of score
  • Relationship growth · 23 in window · 20% of score
9
33 new Spirit Airlines
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 49% of score
  • Source diversity · 5 in window · 43% of score
  • Coverage · 5 in window · 3% of score
9
34 new Thinking Machines
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 3 in window · 74% of score
  • Source diversity · 2 in window · 17% of score
  • Relationship growth · 5 in window · 4% of score
9
35 new SpaceXAI
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 8 in window · 70% of score
  • Relationship growth · 15 in window · 14% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 10% of score
9
36 ▼14 Nscale
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 55% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 29% of score
  • Relationship growth · 8 in window · 8% of score
8
37 new The Information
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 69% of score
  • Event involvement · 9 in window · 20% of score
  • Coverage · 13 in window · 8% of score
8
38 new Crusoe
Top factors
  • Funding activity · 2 in window · 58% of score
  • Source diversity · 3 in window · 30% of score
  • Relationship growth · 5 in window · 5% of score
8
39 new Artificial Analysis
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 71% of score
  • Event involvement · 5 in window · 11% of score
  • Relationship growth · 10 in window · 11% of score
7
40 new IBM
Top factors
  • Source diversity · 7 in window · 72% of score
  • Relationship growth · 12 in window · 13% of score
  • Coverage · 12 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 7 Sep 2026 · movement is measured against the week of 31 Aug 2026 · historical snapshots stay available via the week links above.

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