The TrueUpAI Report
Jul 2026
TrueUp AI 50
50 Hottest AI Companies
AMI Labs•
Anduril•
Anthropic•
Applied Compute•
Axiom Math•
Black Forest Labs•
Cognition•
Crusoe•
Decart•
DeepSeek•
ElevenLabs•
Figure•
Fireworks•
Flourish•
General Intuition•
Generalist•
Hark•
Harvey•
Helsing•
Higgsfield AI•
humans&•
Ineffable Intelligence•
Lila Sciences•
Lovable•
Mercor•
MetaX•
Mistral AI•
Moonshot AI•
Nexthop AI•
OpenAI•
OpenEvidence•
Periodic Labs•
Perplexity•
Physical Intelligence•
Positron•
Project Prometheus•
Reflection AI•
Safe Superintelligence•
Sierra•
Skild•
Starcloud•
Surge AI•
The Bot Company•
Thinking Machines Lab•
Together•
Unconventional•
Upscale AI•
Wonderful•
World Labs•
Z.ai
Jul 2026
Top AI Co's by Trajectory
Factors incl. fundraising history, hiring trends, industry factors, layoff data, TrueUp member interest & more
| company | all‑tech rank | |
|---|---|---|
1. |  Safe Superintelligence | #1 |
2. |  Reflection AI | #3 |
3. |  Anthropic | #4 |
4. |  Periodic Labs | #5 |
5. |  Mistral AI | #6 |
6. |  Ineffable Intelligence | #7 |
7. |  DeepSeek | #8 |
8. |  Physical Intelligence | #9 |
9. |  Cognition | #10 |
10. |  Unconventional | #11 |
Jul 2026
Top AI co's by valuation
| company | valuation | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. |  NVIDIA ($NVDA) | $4842B | |
2. | Anthropic | $965B | |
3. |  OpenAI | $852B | |
4. |  Cambricon ($688256) | $147B | |
5. |  Databricks | $134B | |
6. |  Waymo | $126B | |
7. |  Z.ai ($2513) | $120B | |
8. |  Nebius Group ($NBIS) | $70B | |
9. |  Anduril | $61B | |
10. |  Cerebras ($CBRS) | $50B |
Jul 2026
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40,347 open AI jobs
↑336.8% from low (9,236)
Jul 2026
Remote Index
16.7
% of AI jobs with a remote option
Jul 2026
Bay Area Index
30.2
% of AI jobs listed in the Bay Area
Jul 2026
AI Co's w/ Most Open Jobs
| company | jobs | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Anduril | 2,165 | |
2. | NVIDIA | 2,000 | |
3. | Databricks | 787 | |
4. | OpenAI | 714 | |
5. |  Shield AI | 415 | |
6. | Anthropic | 400 | |
7. | Waymo | 377 | |
8. |  Neura Robotics | 346 | |
9. |  Crusoe | 344 | |
10. | Nebius Group | 335 | |
11. |  Harvey | 333 | |
12. |  Verkada | 294 | |
13. |  Applied Intuition | 252 | |
14. |  Graphcore | 247 | |
15. |  Jack & Jill | 243 | |
16. |  Zoox | 217 | |
17. |  xAI | 210 | |
18. |  Atoms | 202 | |
19. |  Fluidstack | 187 | |
20. |  Scale | 184 |
Jul 2026
Top AI Job Categories
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Engineering (Software) | 16120 | |
2. | Artificial Intelligence | 9471 | |
3. | Business Operations & Program Management | 2590 | |
4. | Marketing & Growth | 2360 | |
5. | Sales | 2180 | |
6. | Data Science | 2062 | |
7. | Sales Engineering | 1866 | |
8. | Engineering (Hardware) | 1769 | |
9. | Product Management | 1302 | |
10. | Data & Analytics | 1154 |
Jul 2026
Top AI Job Locations
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | 🇺🇸 United States | 24662 | |
2. | 🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area | 11428 | |
3. | 🇺🇸 New York City | 3960 | |
4. | 🇺🇸 Remote (United States) | 3228 | |
5. | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 2508 | |
6. | 🇺🇸 Los Angeles | 1942 | |
7. | 🇬🇧 London, UK | 1821 | |
8. | 🇮🇳 India | 1781 | |
9. | 🇺🇸 Seattle | 1643 | |
10. | 🇩🇪 Germany | 1195 |
Jul 2026
AI Jobs by Company Stage
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
🌱 Early-Stage Startup | 7274 | ||
🦄 Unicorn | 16061 | ||
📈 Public Tech | 11390 | ||
🐳 FAANG+ | 4704 | ||
Other | 5781 |
Jul 2026
Most Common Tech/Tools
From AI job descriptions
1. | Python | |
2. | LLM | |
3. | AWS | |
4. | C++ | |
5. | SQL | |
6. | Kubernetes | |
7. | Google Cloud | |
8. | GPU | |
9. | Anthropic | |
10. | PyTorch |
Jul 2026
Biggest AI Layoffs
Past 12 months
| company | ppl let go | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1. |  Sama | 1108 | Apr 2026 | |
2. | xAI | 500 | Sep 2025 | |
3. |  C3.ai | 312 | Feb 2026 | |
4. |  DeepL | 250 | May 2026 | |
5. | Scale | 200 | Jul 2025 | |
5. |  Mobileye | 200 | Dec 2025 | |
7. |  Hailo | 110 | Jun 2026 | |
7. |  AI21 | 110 | May 2026 | |
9. |  Krutrim | 100 | Jul 2025 | |
9. |  Yellow.ai | 100 | Dec 2025 |
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