AI companies
The Index · OrganisationsThe companies with the most influence over how AI is built and deployed.
What this measures
AI Influence weighs frontier capability, how critical a company is to the rest of the ecosystem, the influence of its leadership, its momentum, its independence across the AI stack, its strategic leverage and its market value.
Frontier capability reads how close a company's own models and systems are to the frontier.
Scores run 0 to 100. The top 10 companies · updated 21 Oct 2026.
AI Influence: components and weightsThe method in full →
| 01 | Alphabet | Internet & Cloud | 95.9 | 99.0 |
| 02 | Nvidia | Semiconductors | 95.6 | 90.0 |
| 03 | OpenAI | AI Lab / Foundation Models | 92.6 | 99.0 |
| 04 | Anthropic | AI Lab / Foundation Models | 90.2 | 98.0 |
| 05 | Meta Platforms | Social Media & AI | 89.5 | 92.0 |
| 06 | Microsoft | Software & Cloud | 88.8 | 86.0 |
| 07 | Amazon | E-commerce & Cloud | 87.1 | 80.0 |
| 08 | TSMC | Semiconductor Foundry | 85.5 | 86.0 |
| 09 | Alibaba | E-commerce & Cloud | 82.7 | 86.0 |
| 10 | Huawei | Telecom & Semiconductors | 82.2 | 84.0 |
Index scores are model outputs, not predictions. Where an input is missing it is estimated and marked as an estimate in the full dataset.
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