The TrueUpGenerative AI Report
Jul 2026
TrueUp Generative AI 50
50 Hottest Generative AI Companies
Anthropic•
Arena•
Assort Health•
Black Forest Labs•
Cognition•
Cohere•
Crescendo•
DeepSeek•
Distyl•
ElevenLabs•
Etched•
Exa•
Factory•
Fal•
FieldAI•
Fireworks•
Genspark•
Glean•
Granola•
Harmonic•
Harvey•
Higgsfield AI•
Hippocratic AI•
humans&•
Liquid AI•
Lovable•
Mistral AI•
Moonshot AI•
OpenAI•
Perplexity•
Physical Intelligence•
PixVerse•
Profound•
Reflection AI•
Reka•
Rogo•
Runway•
Safe Superintelligence•
Sakana AI•
Sarvam•
Sierra•
Skild•
Suno•
Surge AI•
Thinking Machines Lab•
Together•
Wispr Flow•
World Labs•
Xaira•
Z.ai
Jul 2026
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. |  Safe Superintelligence | #1 |
2. |  Reflection AI | #3 |
3. |  Anthropic | #4 |
4. |  Mistral AI | #6 |
5. |  DeepSeek | #8 |
6. |  Physical Intelligence | #9 |
7. |  Cognition | #10 |
8. |  humans& | #12 |
9. |  Sierra | #15 |
10. |  Skild | #16 |
Jul 2026
Top Generative AI co's by valuation
| company | valuation | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Anthropic | $965B | |
2. |  OpenAI | $852B | |
3. |  Z.ai ($2513) | $120B | |
4. | DeepSeek | $50B | |
5. | Safe Superintelligence | $32B | |
6. | Cognition | $26B | |
7. |  Moonshot AI | $20B | |
8. |  Perplexity | $18B | |
9. | Sierra | $16B | |
10. |  Kling AI | $15B |
Jul 2026
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5,783 open Generative AI jobs
↑1421.8% from low (380)
Jul 2026
Remote Index
21.6
% of Generative AI jobs with a remote option
Jul 2026
Bay Area Index
45.9
% of Generative AI jobs listed in the Bay Area
Jul 2026
Generative AI Co's w/ Most Open Jobs
| company | jobs | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | OpenAI | 714 | |
2. | Anthropic | 400 | |
3. |  Harvey | 333 | |
4. |  xAI | 210 | |
5. |  Prolific | 174 | |
6. | Mistral AI | 172 | |
7. |  ElevenLabs | 171 | |
8. | Sierra | 158 | |
9. |  Glean | 131 | |
10. |  Cohere | 130 | |
11. |  Cursor | 113 | |
12. |  Etched | 99 | |
13. |  LangChain | 97 | |
14. |  FieldAI | 96 | |
15. |  Profound | 92 | |
16. | Perplexity | 79 | |
17. | Cognition | 74 | |
17. |  Synthesia | 74 | |
19. |  Lovable | 73 | |
20. |  Hippocratic AI | 67 |
Jul 2026
Top Generative AI Job Categories
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | Engineering (Software) | 1959 | |
2. | Marketing & Growth | 552 | |
3. | Sales | 526 | |
4. | Business Operations & Program Management | 441 | |
5. | Artificial Intelligence | 427 | |
6. | Sales Engineering | 275 | |
7. | People | 235 | |
8. | Finance | 187 | |
9. | Legal | 175 | |
10. | Customer Success | 170 |
Jul 2026
Top Generative AI Job Locations
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
1. | 🇺🇸 United States | 4065 | |
2. | 🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area | 2636 | |
3. | 🇺🇸 New York City | 1153 | |
4. | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 642 | |
5. | 🇺🇸 Remote (United States) | 587 | |
6. | 🇬🇧 London, UK | 510 | |
7. | 🇫🇷 France | 274 | |
8. | 🇺🇸 Seattle | 241 | |
9. | 🇫🇷 Paris, France | 216 | |
10. | 🇮🇳 India | 188 |
Jul 2026
Generative AI Jobs by Company Stage
jobs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
🌱 Early-Stage Startup | 952 | ||
🦄 Unicorn | 4001 | ||
📈 Public Tech | 336 | ||
Other | 413 |
Jul 2026
Most Common Tech/Tools
From Generative AI job descriptions
1. | Python | |
2. | LLM | |
3. | OpenAI | |
4. | GPT | |
5. | AWS | |
6. | Anthropic | |
7. | Kubernetes | |
8. | Google Cloud | |
9. | Typescript | |
10. | Azure |
Jul 2026
Biggest Generative AI Layoffs
Past 12 months
| company | ppl let go | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | xAI | 500 | Sep 2025 | |
2. |  AI21 | 110 | May 2026 | |
3. |  Krutrim | 100 | Jul 2025 | |
4. | Krutrim | 50 | Sep 2025 | |
4. |  Robin AI | 50 | Oct 2025 | |
6. | Cognition | 30 | Aug 2025 | |
7. | xAI | 10 | May 2026 | |
8. |  Glowforge | 5 | Aug 2025 | |
9. | Glowforge | Sep 2025 | ||
9. | xAI | Feb 2026 |
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