What is the best AI company leaderboard?

Sector HQ tracks 500+ AI companies and publishes rankings for the top 100 by signal strength, with real-time updates every 5 minutes. Unlike other rankings based on funding or press releases, we measure actual activity from GitHub, arXiv, and tech communities.

How are AI companies ranked?

Rankings are calculated from 5 dimensions weighted by time-decayed event activity: Innovation (25%), Adoption (25%), Market Impact (20%), Media Attention (15%), and Technical (15%). Sentiment and Hype/Reality are tracked separately as supplementary signals. Rankings update every 5 minutes.

Who are the top 10 AI companies right now?

Based on real-time data: 1. OpenAI, 2. Google, 3. Anthropic, 4. Microsoft, 5. Nvidia, 6. Meta, 7. Amazon, 8. Alibaba, 9. Apple, 10. xAI. Rankings update every 5 minutes based on actual activity.

How often do AI company rankings update?

Sector HQ rankings update every 5 minutes with the latest data from 211 verified sources including GitHub, arXiv, Reddit, and tech news. This makes our leaderboard one of the most up-to-date AI company trackers available.

What is Hype Detection in AI rankings?

Hype Detection measures the gap between a company's marketing claims and actual technical activity. We compare press release mentions against real GitHub commits, research papers, and community engagement to show which companies are genuinely innovating versus just promoting.

AI Company Rankings & Leaderboard

Name: AI Company Rankings Dataset - Real-Time Leaderboard
Creator: Sector HQ
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tracking 563 AI companies, ranking the top 100 by signal strength across 212 verified sources

Updated just now • Updates every 5 minutes

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Bytedance#14

Breaking

The Two-Line Prompt That Broke Hollywood: Inside the Seedance 2.0 Catastrophe

Why We Need Cryptographic Proof of What AI Refused to Generate: Building Verifiable Refusal Provenance with CAP-SRP

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

What's Happening in AI

20 companies active · 153 events in the last 24h

4 mins ago

Bytedance

#14

Breaking

The Two-Line Prompt That Broke Hollywood: Inside the Seedance 2.0 Catastrophe

80%

4events

xAI

#10

Breaking

Why We Need Cryptographic Proof of What AI Refused to Generate: Building Verifiable Refusal Provenance with CAP-SRP

77%

4events

Anthropic

Funding

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

76%

32events

Nvidia

Breaking

NVIDIA PersonaPlex: The Future of Real-Time, Full-Duplex AI Voice Agents - Abdul Aziz Ahwan

76%

8events

OpenAI

Funding

OpenClaw Joins OpenAI: The Real Story Behind the Viral Agent That Could Change AI

75%

21events

Microsoft

Breaking

Azure Weekly: Agentic Cloud Operations and the AI Database Push

74%

13events

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Hype Gap

🎯 AI Intelligence Highlights

🔥 OpenAI is DOMINATING with 258 events this week

📉 Snyk sentiment tanking at -40% - community is NOT happy

💩 Flock Safety talks 10% more than they ship

✨ Zhipu AI quietly shipping - under-promise, over-deliver champion

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Rank	Company	Score	7d Events	Movement	Sentiment
#1	OpenAI	222587.6	16.4K258 this week	—+5658.4 pts	23%
#2	Google	169204.9	2.2K134 this week	—+7332.3 pts	32%
#3	Anthropic	166637.9+2	6.3K164 this week	↑ +2+959.6 pts	26%
#4	Microsoft	105518.1+2	2.5K95 this week	↑ +2+3840.8 pts	12%
#5	Nvidia	93782.4−2	2.4K84 this week	↓ −2-1269.9 pts	34%
#6	Meta	74384.7+32	94935 this week	↑ +32+942.6 pts	8%
#7	Amazon	60501.7+1	2.0K18 this week	↑ +1+1963.8 pts	18%
#8	Alibaba	54139.9−1	12816 this week	↓ −1+5834.1 pts	55%
#9	Apple	53512.6−5	1.2K54 this week	↓ −5+38.0 pts	30%
#10	xAI	41870.0+7	20827 this week	↑ +7+2838.4 pts	4%

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How This Works

We track AI-related events from Reddit, arXiv, GitHub, company blogs, tech news, and other places where actual AI stuff happens. Not just press releases.

Scoring Formula

Score = Σ[(Innovation × 25% + Adoption × 25% + Market Impact × 20% + Media × 15% + Technical × 15%) × Time Decay]

Events are scored across 5 dimensions with time decay — recent activity matters more than old news. Sentiment and Hype/Reality are tracked separately as supplementary signals.

✓ What We Track

→ Product launches (actual demos)
→ Research papers (arXiv, journals)
→ GitHub activity (real code)
→ Partnerships (with substance)
→ Funding rounds (validated)
→ Hiring/layoffs (market signals)

✗ What We Ignore

→ Vague press releases
→ "Exploring AI" announcements
→ Repackaged old news
→ Executive quotes about AI
→ Generic "AI strategy" posts
→ Marketing without product

Full methodology breakdown

Why Sector HQ vs Other AI Rankings?

	Sector HQ	Other Rankings
Update Frequency	Every 5 minutes✅	Monthly/Quarterly❌
Data Sources	212 verified sources✅	Press releases only❌
Hype Detection	Marketing vs Reality✅	No hype analysis❌
Ranking Basis	Actual activity & code✅	Funding & PR❌
Companies Tracked	100+ companies✅	Top 10-50 only❌

No bias, no pay-for-ranking. Our rankings are 100% algorithmic, based on real activity from GitHub, arXiv, Reddit, and tech communities. We measure what companies do, not what they say.

How We Rank AI Companies

Our proprietary algorithm analyzes real-time activity to rank companies by what they're actually doing, not what they're saying.

Event Collection

We monitor 212 verified sources including GitHub repositories, arXiv research papers, Reddit discussions, Hacker News, tech news sites, and product launches. Every 5 minutes, we scan for new activity.

Signal Processing

Our AI filters out marketing fluff, press release spam, and duplicate content. We focus on substantive events: code commits, research publications, product releases, and genuine community engagement.

Hype Detection

We compare marketing claims (blog posts, announcements) against actual technical activity (GitHub commits, research citations). Companies with high "Hype Gap" talk more than they ship.

Ranking Algorithm

Companies are scored across 5 dimensions, weighted by time-decayed event activity:

Score = Σ[(Innovation × 25% + Adoption × 25% + Market Impact × 20% + Media × 15% + Technical × 15%) × Time Decay]

• Innovation (25%): Product launches, breakthroughs, novel capabilities

• Adoption (25%): User growth, integrations, developer ecosystem

• Market Impact (20%): Funding, partnerships, acquisitions

• Media Attention (15%): Press coverage, community discussion

• Technical (15%): Research papers, benchmarks, open source

Sentiment and Hype/Reality are tracked separately as supplementary signals.

Real-Time Updates

Rankings refresh every 5 minutes. No human bias, no pay-for-ranking, no editorial interference. Pure algorithmic transparency.

Why trust our rankings? Unlike traditional lists compiled by journalists or based on funding rounds, our system is fully automated and measures real developer activity, research output, and community sentiment—the true signals of AI innovation.