Debutting in 2019, the Forbes AI 50 lists the top 50 AI companies worldwide with 44 in the U.S. as of the end of 2026. Comprising model builders, data storage and data center companies, researchers and robotics as well as chips and programming, following are the top 25 U.S. companies in order of funding. For the full list of companies and excellent synopses of their operations, visit www.forbes.com/lists/ai50. See
AI companies.
20xx Year
Founded
Funding |
Name (Rounded) | Products
1. OpenAI $183B 15 Models
2. Anthropic $ 60B 21 Models
3. Databricks $ 20B 13 Storage
4. Cursor $ 3B 22 Coding
5. Mistral AI $ 3B 23 Models
6. Safe
Superintelligence $ 3B 24 Research
7. Crusoe $ 3B 18 Data center
8. Reflection $ 2B 24 Models
9. Skild AI $ 2B 23 Robotics
10. Thinking Machines $ 2B 25 Research
11. Cyera $ 2B 21 Security
12. Perplexity $ 2B 22 Search
13. Cohere $ 2B 19 Models
14. SambaNova $ 1B 17 Chips
15. Cognition $ 1B 24 Coding agents
16. Harvey $ 1B 22 Legal software
17. Physical
Intelligence $ 1B 24 Robotics
18. World Labs $ 1B 23 Spatial Models
19. Replit $ .9B 16 Apps/Websites
20. Runway $ .9B 18 Editing
21. Applied Intuition $ .9B 17 Self-driving
22. Legora $ .8B 23 Legal software
23. ElevenLabs $ .8B 22 Voice gen
24. Glean $ .8B 19 Search/agents
25. OpenEvidence $ .7B 22 Medical search