📊 25 AI startups on the rise

📊 25 AI startups on the rise
Not every AI breakthrough comes from BigTech. This Forbes-backed list highlights startups quietly building the infrastructure, creativity, and productivity layers of the AI economy.

💰The biggest funding magnet? Productivity tools — with $700M+ across just 8companies

🧠 From LangChain to Perplexity, Harvey to Cleanlab — each is solving a different bottleneck in the AI stack

✍️ Midjourney made the list without raising a dollar

🔒 But not everyone will survive — policy, trust, and data security are already major battlefields
The AI race isn’t just about model size — it’s about who trains faster, ships smarter, and earns trust first.