The TrueUpGenerative AI Report
Apr 2025
TrueUp Generative AI 50
50 Hottest Generative AI Companies
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11x•
Adept•
Anthropic•
Anysphere•
Augment•
Captions•
Codeium•
Cognition AI•
Cohere•
Contextual AI•
Crescendo•
ElevenLabs•
EvenUp•
EvolutionaryScale•
Fireworks AI•
Foundry•
Generate Biomedicines•
Genspark•
Glean•
Harmonic•
Harvey•
Hebbia•
Hippocratic AI•
Hugging Face•
Jasper•
Krutrim•
Liquid AI•
MiniMax•
Mistral AI•
Moonshot AI•
OpenAI•
Pantheon•
Perplexity AI•
Physical Intelligence•
Poolside•
Runway•
Safe Superintelligence•
Sakana AI•
Sierra•
Skild AI•
Suno•
Synthesia•
Tessl•
Together•
Typeface•
World Labs•
xAI•
Xaira•
Zhipu AI
Apr 2025
Top Generative AI Co’s by Trajectory
Factors incl. fundraising history, hiring trends, industry factors, layoff data, TrueUp member interest & more
| company | all‑tech rank | |
|---|---|---|
1. |  xAI | #1 |
2. |  Safe Superintelligence | #3 |
3. |  Anthropic | #4 |
4. |  Mistral AI | #5 |
5. |  Perplexity AI | #6 |
6. |  Sierra | #7 |
7. |  Physical Intelligence | #9 |
8. |  Cognition AI | #10 |
9. |  Poolside | #12 |
10. |  OpenAI | #13 |
Apr 2025
Top Generative AI co’s by valuation
| company | valuation | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | OpenAI | $300B | |
2. | Anthropic | $62B | |
3. | xAI | $45B | |
4. | Perplexity AI | $9.0B | |
5. | Mistral AI | $6.2B | |
6. |  Cohere | $5.5B | |
7. | Safe Superintelligence | $5.0B | |
8. |  Glean | $4.6B | |
9. |  Hugging Face | $4.5B | |
9. | Sierra | $4.5B |
Apr 2025
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2,364 open Generative AI jobs
↑643.4% from low (318)
Apr 2025
Remote Index
36.7
% of Generative AI jobs with a remote option
Apr 2025
Bay Area Index
51.3
% of Generative AI jobs listed in the Bay Area
Apr 2025
Generative AI Co’s w/ Most Open Jobs
| company | jobs | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | OpenAI | 289 | |
2. | Anthropic | 147 | |
3. | Glean | 112 | |
4. | xAI | 102 | |
5. |  Hippocratic AI | 59 | |
6. | Perplexity AI | 57 | |
7. |  1X | 56 | |
8. | Mistral AI | 52 | |
9. |  Synthesia | 51 | |
10. |  Encord | 44 | |
11. |  Ema | 36 | |
11. |  Harvey | 36 | |
11. |  Parloa | 36 | |
14. |  Leonardo.Ai | 35 | |
15. |  ElevenLabs | 34 | |
15. |  Turnitin | 34 | |
17. | Sierra | 33 | |
18. |  Codeium | 32 | |
19. |  Together | 31 | |
20. |  Hebbia | 28 |
Apr 2025
Top Generative AI Job Categories
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Engineering (Software) | 937 | |
2. | Artificial Intelligence | 240 | |
3. | Sales | 182 | |
4. | Marketing & Growth | 178 | |
5. | Business Operations & Program Management | 138 | |
6. | Sales Engineering | 105 | |
7. | Research | 88 | |
8. | Product Management | 76 | |
9. | Customer Success | 73 | |
10. | Design | 69 |
Apr 2025
Top Generative AI Job Locations
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | 🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area | 1166 | |
2. | 🇺🇸 New York City | 331 | |
3. | 🇺🇸 Remote (United States) | 304 | |
4. | 🇬🇧 London, UK | 163 | |
5. | 🇺🇸 Seattle | 85 | |
6. | 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, India | 74 | |
7. | 🇫🇷 Paris, France | 72 | |
8. | 🇺🇸 Los Angeles | 53 | |
9. | 🇬🇧 Remote (United Kingdom) | 50 | |
10. | 🇺🇸 Boston | 46 |
Apr 2025
Generative AI Jobs by Company Stage
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
🌱 Early-Stage Startup | 378 | ||
🦄 Unicorn | 1244 | ||
Other | 750 |
Apr 2025
Most Common Tech/Tools
From Generative AI job descriptions
1. | Python | |
2. | LLM | |
3. | GPT | |
4. | AWS | |
5. | Kubernetes | |
6. | Google Cloud | |
7. | Azure | |
8. | PyTorch | |
9. | Typescript | |
10. | SQL |
Apr 2025
Biggest Generative AI Layoffs
Past 12 months
| company | ppl let go | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1. |  Lightfield | 59 | Apr 2024 | |
2. | Cohere | 20 | Jul 2024 | |
2. |  Stability AI | 20 | Apr 2024 | |
4. |  Tabnine | 15 | Feb 2025 | |
5. | Lightfield | 12 | Oct 2024 | |
6. | Hugging Face | 10 | Feb 2025 | |
7. |  Character.ai | 6 | Aug 2024 |
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Methodology: TrueUp attempts to track and analyze data on every open job at every startup and big tech co.