S26 Power Rankings

Community ranking of the YC Summer 2026 batch. 232 companies and counting as the batch is announced. Vote the ones you believe in up, the rest down.

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    Local-first least cost routing system to reduce 80%+ token spend

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    Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond

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    Control and Monitoring of Industrial Operations

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    Building drone swarms that hunt drone operators

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    Effortlessly deploy cloud software factories.

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    Data for computer-use ai

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    ParasmaHiring

    Training human brain cells for AI compute

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    debit cards for AI agents.

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    Product analytics for AI Agents

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    Reliable and safe data engineering and data science agents

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    Construction paperwork that finally works for your team

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    High performance file system for agents

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    The improvement loop for AI agents

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    Agents for Enterprise IT

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    AI agents that run small businesses

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    Predicting human response to drugs in clinical trials

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    AI chips for ultra-fast model training and inference

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    BloomyHiring

    AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

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    AI agents to run primary healthcare operations

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    A knowledge company

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    Real World Evals and RL Environments for Computer-Use

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    Log compression for agents.

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    We give AI agents realtime web context.

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    AI-Native Home Care Agency

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    Build everyday back-office agents on one live model of your books

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    Full Stack Dental Insurance

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    Infra for enterprise voice agents.

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    Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level

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    AI That Operates Energy Infrastructure

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    Building Autonomous Research Agents for Trading

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    Building a sovereign Starlink

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    Turn your AI spend into a cheaper + better model you own

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    The world's frontier hacker for AI agents.

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    Mass-produced AI strike systems and Counter-UAS

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    The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.

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    Ooak DataHiring

    We turn company data into RL environnements.

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    OperonHiring

    Agentic data layer for manufacturing & process industries.

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    AI voice agent that helps professionals get discovered

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    Fast-turn, American made PCBs

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    AI Employees for Accounting

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    Scale AI scientists whose own breakthroughs accelerate the next.

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    Market for future inference capacity

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    Continuous compliance and governance for agents on sensitive systems

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    Let your users build their own features on top of your product

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    AI-native land-use permit management for local gov

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    Duolingo for learning anything, but 10x better

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    A nervous system for physical AI

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    AI-native materials discovery powered by unpublished experimental data

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    Building the future of advanced chip manufacturing.

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    Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.

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    One group chat to hear and steer your coding agents.

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    Nervous System for AI Agents

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    Human as API for robots

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    The AI that knows your company

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    Agentic, Personalized Product Demo Videos for Sales

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    A new kind of camera that can see through walls.

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    The trading terminal for perps, memes, and stocks.

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    We are the AI-native property management company

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    Off shore nuclear powered data centers at sea.

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    AI-native debt collection

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    The AI-powered operating system for radiology networks

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    Boutique Hotels that run themselves

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    The easiest way to make private AI models.

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    AI employees that run home appliance repair companies

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    AI-native Accounting Firm to Replace the Big-4

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    The OS for companies that make, move, or sell physical goods

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    AI native software factory

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    Understand how users experience your AI agents

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    The Smart Operating System for Auto Shops.

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    Hosting platform for software you don't want to get hacked

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    find, qualify, & win contracts with AI

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    Research services for ChatGPT and Claude

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    COACHHiring

    The AI Coach for in person sales reps.

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    Buy, sell, and redeem GPU hours for any week with instant liquidity

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    RL Environments for Scientific Reasoning & Performance Engineering

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    AI-native orchestration for physical R&D testing

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    Security-first training data

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    Automatic Diagnosis & Fix for Industrial Automation Cells

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    The Agent Control Plane for IT teams

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    Real-world data network for robots & world models

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    AI-Native Logistics Office

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    AI-controlled optical switching for AI clusters

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    Multiplayer agent workspace to run your company

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    The AI-native trading company: China factory-direct for US importers

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    Pocket-sized AI cameras that catch asset damage.

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    A Quant Neolab building toward RSI via quant trading

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    User-owned memory and preferences that work across every AI app

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    Decisions for disrupted freight

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    The post-training layer for robotics.

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    Building the first network of AI-native law firms

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    Voice agents that accelerate care coordination in workers' comp

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    The open source integration management layer for AI.

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    World Models for Accurate Humans.

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    Connect your agent to the stock market

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    Vibecode + deploy HIPAA-compliant internal tools, no eng team needed

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    Florin is the insurance carrier with zero underwriters

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    AI for Construction's Back Office.

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    Scalable Personalised Cancer Treatment

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    The Git forge for the next hundred billion commits

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    Shared learning layer for agents

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    On-device knowledge graph engine for enterprises

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    Physical AI for waste management

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    Making aerospace parts faster and cheaper for defense

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    Personalized probiotics, guaranteed to colonize.

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    AI tools for the chips your AI runs on

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    APIs for searching and analyzing Physical AI data at scale

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    Hera catches thousand dollar errors before they hit the shop floor.

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    Infrastructure for recursive self-improvement

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    Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments

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    The intelligence layer for patient information

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    Your coding agent writes code. Now let it fix prod too.

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    24/7 Personal Health & Longevity Companion

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    Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.

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    Building intellectually curious AI

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    Let your agents communicate via email, phone, iMessage, & Agent2Agent

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    Automated evals for robot policies

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    AI-Native Social Platform, Starting with Games

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    The AI-Native Decision Infrastructure for Health Insurance

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    20x more coding agents, 20x more productivity

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    Making health insurance invisible

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    Making diamond an engineering material

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    Field Service Companies that run themselves

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    World's fastest AI models

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    Agent-native accounting firm.

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    Agent-native research and simulation platform for investors

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    Fully automated GTM for small business

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    Robot squads for solar farm construction

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    Run an async work trial on every engineer you interview.

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    LockeHiring

    Locke is changing the way companies and governments work together.

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    API First Tax Engine for CPAs

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    Oura Ring for Skin.

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    Foundation models on enterprise transaction data.

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    Cloud computers for AI agents

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    Monetize your agent's traces.

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    Simulating Agents Running Industrial Companies

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    Low-cost, deployment-ready robotic labor for warehouses

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    Automating engineering design, starting with data centers.

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    USA-made magnetics for aerospace, robotics and defense.

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    Engineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding Era

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    Drones that clear clouds over solar farms

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    Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents

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    1 Minute Anime

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    Resistance free pesticides.

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    Defining the frontier of multiplayer AI.

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    World Model Lab for Evaluating and Training Robots.

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    Building Mythos for everyone

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    Building embodiment agnostic robot brains.

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    Industrial Controllers built for AI

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    Claude Cowork for high-volume workflows, starting with GTM

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    sub-$2000 humanoid robot you can teach to do anything

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    Building multi-agent simulations for model evals and training.

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    A research lab for one

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    The Identity Gateway for AI Agents

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    Distributed, hardware-agnostic AI inference

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    The new interface for investing.

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    AI that turns any camera to an autonomous worker with real-time vision

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    AI advanced planning and optimisation for manufacturers.

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    OS3Hiring

    Intelligence and Machines for Physical Labor

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    AI growth engine for law firms.

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    The intelligent development platform for robotics

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    Mass-producing and deploying micro data centers for Earth and Space

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    An AI-Native Media Platform

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    AI sales agents that run your marketplace

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    AI that finds and fixes OS-level vulnerabilities across device fleets

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    Agentic OS for e-commerce operations

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    AI-native freight brokerage

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    The Corporate Governance OS for Public Markets

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    We make law firms AI-native.

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    Unlocking enterprise data for tomorrow's economy

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    Host a Poker Club and Make Money

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    Turns every company into a data vendor

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    Healthcare for the age of abundant intelligence.

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    AI-native insurance company for the compute economy

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    Lovable for internal tools

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    Training the world's best foundation model for quantitative finance.

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    Building autonomous data centers

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    AI that automates underwriting for commercial insurance carriers

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    AI-native, full-stack radiology practice

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    AI for fintechs & banks

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    Towards a General Intelligence for Chemistry

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    AI-native OS for Real Estate Brokerages

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    AI-native BPO for enterprise order-to-cash

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    Earned intelligence for every company

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    The translation layer between AI agents and the web

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    We turn waste gases into valuable supply-secure chemicals

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    Insurance for the Frontier

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    Evaluating robots in the real world.

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    We use AI to personalize peptides to your biology

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    Deploying robots for inspections in hazardous spaces, like nuclear.

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    AI powered by everything you've seen, said or heard

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    We automate supply chain and financial risk management

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    Robots that learn on the job

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    AI agent that handles frontline operations over text

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    Autopilot for Flight Operations

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    The managed runtime for enterprise AI agents

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    A router for voice models. One key, every model.

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    Teaching AI to Design Chips

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    A primary care clinic where AI earns clinical autonomy

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    The market behind AI hardware.

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    Applied AI for Governments.

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    3D Maps of Underground Utilities

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    SunflowerHiring

    Building the Sobriety Platform for the future of Superintelligence. 🌻

  203. 203
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    Frontier semiconductor research lab reimagining compute and vision…

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    Vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks.

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    Supply chain compliance and cost savings

  206. 206
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    The investment platform for sports & trading cards

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    AI workers that attribute the outcome back to the token spend

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    Fully autonomous robotic factories

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    TorusHiring

    Legora for physical engineering firms

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    The AI assistant that doesn't fight for your attention

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    AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms

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    Securing AI native apps directly on devices

  213. 213
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    Combining open-source AI models for better answers at lower cost

  214. 214
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    Agents that find real exploitable vulnerabilities in your company

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    The AI-native ERP system integrator

  216. 216
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    Local creators for local businesses

  217. 217
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    AI career agent that finds matching jobs and applies for you

  218. 218
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    Manufacturing the metal parts the world runs on faster, cheaper, safer

  219. 219
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    Effortlessly move to open weight models

  220. 220
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    AI claims adjuster for regulated insurance

  221. 221
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    AI cybersecurity for financial institutions' digital assets

  222. 222
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    Autonomous radar guidance for interceptors

  223. 223
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    AI native platform for real estate closings

  224. 224
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    Agents for robotics control.

  225. 225
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    Managed procurement & inventory for hardware teams.

  226. 226
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    AI Operating System for Wholesale Distributors

  227. 227
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    Extrapolative AI to unlock First-in-Class drugs

  228. 228
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    Agentic Hotel Operating System

  229. 229
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    Computer Use Agents for back offices in finance

  230. 230
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    AI for credit funds, fintechs and banks

  231. 231
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    Helping companies understand why users behave the way they do

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    Helping AI understand the physical world