Valuation
AI unicorns: companies valued at $1B or more
AI companies valued at $1B or more that raised this year, ranked by latest reported valuation.
1 | SpaceXAI SpaceXAI is an artificial intelligence company that develops frontier AI models for reasoning, code, voice, images, and video, with its core product being the AI chatbot Grok. | $230B |
2 | Ant International Ant International is the global arm of Ant Group, focused on expanding its digital payment and financial technology services worldwide. | $110B |
3 | Cognition AI Building Devin, the first autonomous software engineer, to act as an exponential collaborator for human engineers. | $48B |
| 4 | Prometheus AI startup led by Jeff Bezos. | $41B |
| 5 | Prometheus Jeff Bezos-backed AI startup building physical AI systems for engineering and manufacturing, and providing an AI-driven investment platform. | $38B |
| 6 | Etched Etched is building the hardware for superintelligence by burning the transformer architecture into their chips. | $21B |
| 7 | Mistral AI Mistral AI develops and deploys frontier AI models, assistants, and agents, providing organizations with tailored AI systems. | $20B |
| 8 | Mercor Mercor uses AI to understand human ability and match talent with the opportunities they're best suited for. | $20B |
| 9 | Helsing Helsing is a European defense AI company building software and autonomous systems to process sensor data, automate battlefield decision-making, and enhance military capabilities. | $18B |
| 10 | Modal Labs AI-powered platform for building and deploying custom AI agents. | $15.8B |
| 11 | Harvey AI AI-powered legal assistant for law firms, enhancing legal work and client service. | $15.5B |
| 12 | Fireworks AI High-performance AI inference platform built by former Meta PyTorch engineers. | $15B |
| 13 | ClickHouse Cloud Fully managed ClickHouse service for real-time analytics on AWS, GCP, and Azure. | $15B |
| 14 | Lovable Lovable is an AI-powered platform that allows users to build full-stack applications and websites from natural language prompts, democratizing software creation. | $13.3B |
| 15 | Castelion Defense startup mass-producing affordable hypersonic missile systems for the U.S. military, founded by ex-SpaceX engineers. | $13B |
| 16 | Thinking Machines Lab Inc. Frontier AI lab building multimodal AI systems with customizable, collaborative capabilities for enterprise applications, focusing on human-AI collaboration and personalized AI. | $12B |
| 17 | Physical Intelligence General intelligence for robots, a brain that can power any robot for any application using multimodal learning. | $11B |
| 18 | ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company providing advanced generative AI for audio, including text-to-speech, voice cloning, and AI music generation. | $11B |
| 19 | Supabase Open source Firebase alternative with a PostgreSQL backend and real-time capabilities. | $10.5B |
| 20 | Instinct Instinct is an invite-only personal AI agent that helps users manage everyday tasks through text or phone calls. | $10B |
| 21 | Alipay+ A unified digital payment gateway connecting consumers, merchants, and financial institutions globally, enabling seamless cross-border payments through QR code scanning and other digital solutions. | $10B |
| 22 | Moonshot AI A Chinese AI company developing the Kimi chatbot and a series of large language models for various applications, including coding, knowledge work, and deep reasoning. | $10B |
| 23 | Saronic Technologies Developing autonomous vessels for defense and commercial sectors. | $9.3B |
| 24 | Legora AI-powered collaborative workspace for exceptional lawyers to streamline legal tasks. | $8.8B |
| 25 | Lila Sciences AI-driven lab automation for biological research and discovery at scale. | $8.5B |
| 26 | Together AI Together AI offers an AI-native cloud platform providing high-performance inference APIs, GPU clusters, and fine-tuning capabilities for open-source AI models. | $8.3B |
| 27 | Hadrian AI-powered defense manufacturing platform for rapid prototyping and production. | $7.9B |
| 28 | Fluidstack Software that automates the provisioning of graphics card clusters for AI and machine learning workloads. | $7.5B |
| 29 | TypeSafe AI TypeSafe AI is a frontier model lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. | $7.5B |
| 30 | TypeSafe AI Fast, structured decisions with probabilities for software teams. | $7.5B |
| 31 | Fractile UK-based AI chip startup developing specialized inference hardware to accelerate AI models. | $6.5B |
| 32 | Island Island builds the Enterprise Browser, a Chromium-based browser purpose-built for enterprises with built-in security controls, data governance, and act | $6.4B |
| 33 | Valar Atomics Nuclear energy startup developing small, high-temperature reactors for AI data centers and industrial applications. | $6B |
| 34 | Hark Personalized AI with hardware, software, and intuitive interfaces for human-machine interaction | $6B |
| 35 | Suno Suno is an AI music generation platform that empowers anyone to create songs from imagination, breaking barriers between users and their musical dreams. | $5.4B |
| 36 | Apptronik Humanoid robot startup building robots for tasks like unloading trailers and picking warehouse inventory. | $5.3B |
| 37 | Ineffable Intelligence AI research lab building a superlearner capable of discovering all knowledge and skills autonomously. | $5.1B |
| 38 | Baseten AI inference platform for deploying models in production with high performance and availability. | $5B |
| 39 | Wonderful Wonderful is an applied AI partner that helps critical organizations accelerate AI adoption by combining a multi-model AI platform with local deployment teams. | $5B |
| 40 | Positron AI, Develops energy-efficient AI inference hardware and custom silicon chips to compete with Nvidia. | $5B |
| 41 | Positron AI chipmaker focused on energy-efficient hardware as an alternative to Nvidia. | $5B |
| 42 | Sierra Sierra builds AI agents that help leading brands deliver better customer experiences by increasing customer lifetime value and personalizing interactions across multiple channels. | $4.5B |
| 43 | Decagon AI-powered customer support platform that uses autonomous AI agents to resolve complex customer inquiries. | $4.5B |
| 44 | Decagon AI AI concierge platform for customer interactions. | $4.5B |
| 45 | Nexthop AI Nexthop AI builds customized, high-efficiency networking hardware and software solutions for hyperscale cloud infrastructure providers. | $4.2B |
| 46 | Manus AI The general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions, automating workflows and delivering tangible results. | $4B |
| 47 | Ricursive Intelligence AI tools that design chips. | $4B |
| 48 | Chai Discovery AI-powered drug discovery platform using foundation models for molecular design. | $3.8B |
| 49 | Isomorphic Labs AI-driven drug discovery spinoff from DeepMind using AlphaFold to discover novel medicines. | $3.5B |
| 50 | Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs) Building foundational world models for AI systems that understand and interact with the physical world | $3.5B |
Updated October 28, 2026.
Methodology
How this ranking works
AI companies founded in 2020 or later with a reported valuation of $1B or more and a funding round announced this calendar year, ranked by that valuation. Valuations are as reported in round announcements and press coverage, and the board updates as new rounds are reported.
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