Forbes AI 50 2026
Forbes AI 50 2026 by Forbes: 50 startups listed. Full list with movement since the last edition and method notes.
8th annual AI 50. The 50 companies had raised $305.6 billion, about 80% of it by OpenAI and Anthropic; 20 newcomers include Reflection, Gamma, Chai Discovery and Rogo. Forbes also launched a 20-company AI 50 Brink List for seed and Series A startups.
Introduced the separate AI 50 Brink List; Mayfield named as sponsoring partner.
The full list
| Name |
|---|
| OpenAI |
| Anthropic |
| Mistral AI |
| Cohere |
| Safe Superintelligence |
| Reflection |
| Thinking Machines Lab |
| Cursor |
| Cognition |
| Replit |
| Lovable |
| Fireworks AI |
| BasetenVerification: secondary only |
| Databricks |
| Crusoe |
| Together AIVerification: secondary only |
| Fal |
| SambaNova |
| Abridge |
| OpenEvidence |
| Chai Discovery |
| EliseAI |
| Midjourney |
| Runway |
| ElevenLabsVerification: secondary only |
| Synthesia |
| HeyGen |
| Suno |
| Black Forest Labs |
| Krea |
| Gamma |
| Harvey |
| Legora |
| Sierra |
| Decagon |
| Perplexity |
| GleanVerification: secondary only |
| NotionVerification: secondary only |
| Genspark.ai |
| Clay |
| Listen Labs |
| Physical Intelligence |
| Skild AI |
| Applied Intuition |
| World Labs |
| Rogo |
| Cyera |
| Mercor |
| Surge AI |
| Speak |
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