The insideAI News IMPACT 50 List for Q4 2024
The team here at insideAI News is deeply entrenched in keeping the pulse on the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We’re in close contact with the movers and shakers making waves in the technology areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our in-box is filled each day with new announcements, commentaries, and insights about what’s driving the success of our industry so we’re in a unique position to publish our quarterly IMPACT 50 List. These companies have proven their relevance by the way they’re impacting the enterprise through leading edge products and services. We’re happy to publish this rapidly evolving list of the industry’s most impactful companies!
The selected companies come from our massive data set of vendors and associated industry metrics. We use machine learning to analyze the industry to determine an optimized ranking for this list. We’re using a custom RankBoost algorithm adapted specifically for the big data community along with an expanding group of public and proprietary data sources. The rankings include an indicator for upward movement in the list and also for companies newly added.
Companies (along with their subsidiaries) on the list exhibit technology leadership, strength of offering, proven innovation, positivity of message, quality perception by the enterprise community, sentiment and frequency of social media buzz, high profile of members of the C-suite, and in the case of public companies: positive financial indicators and stock price, plus so much more!
NOTE: vendors wishing to expand their entry in the IMPACT 50 list, please contact us for pricing.
IMPACT 50 LIST for Q4 2024 (in order of the most impactful)
#1 OpenAI – AI research laboratory. Canvas is a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go beyond simple chat. Canvas opens in a separate window, allowing you and ChatGPT to collaborate on a project. This early beta introduces a new way of working together—not just through conversation, but by creating and refining ideas side by side. [+1]
#2 Google AI [NASDAQ: GOOGL] and DeepMind. Gemini is evolving to be more than just the models. It supports an entire ecosystem — from products to the APIs and platforms helping developers and businesses innovate. [+1]
#3 Hugging Face – Pre-trained ML models. Hugging Face develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. Most notable for its transformers library built for NLP applications and its platform that allows users to share machine learning models and datasets and showcase their work. Check out “Daily Papers” for the research community. [+1]
#4 Amazon Web Services [NASDAQ: AMZN] – Cloud based ML, database, container, and storage [+1]
#5 NVIDIA [NASDAQ: NVDA] – Inventor of the GPU for AI workloads
#6 Microsoft AI [NASDAQ: MSFT]
#7 Meta AI – AI research by Meta. Build the future of AI with Llama 3.2 models in 1B, 3B, 11B and 90B. You can get started immediately with our Llama ecosystem and partner network. Download models. The Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Meta seeks to further fundamental understanding in both new and existing domains. [+2]
#8 Databricks [MosaicML] – The data and AI company
#9 Snowflake [NYSE: SNOW] – AI data cloud
#10 AMD [NASDAQ: AMD] – AI platforms from cloud to edge endpoints [+2]
#11 Intel AI [Habana] [NASDAQ: INTC] – Power AI everywhere with Intel
#12 SAS – Data and AI solutions [+2]
#13 Anthropic – AI safety and research company based in San Francisco. Claude 3.5 Sonnet, our most intelligent AI model, is now available. Check out the Claude Enterprise plan. [+4]
#14 H2O.ai – Convergence of predictive & generative AI
#15 Dataiku – Everyday AI platform [+11]
#16 IBM [NYSE: IBM]- AI Solutions. IBM’s adaptive AI solutions are designed to solve real business problems. We employ an open, enterprise-grade AI approach that provides more choice, greater flexibility to best fit your business needs. Learn about Granite AI models.
#17 Neural Magic – On a mission to bring the power of open-source LLMs and vLLM to every enterprise on the planet.
#18 Neo4j – Graph database & analytics
#19 Mistral AI – Open and portable GenAI for devs and businesses. Open-weight models for everyone to customize and deploy where they want it. Pay-as-you-go pricing. NEW! Pixtral 12B multimodal model.
#20 Anaconda – The operating system for AI
#21 Pinecone – Vector database to build knowledgeable AI [+2]
#22 TigerGraph – Graph analytics and AI
#23 Qlik – Data integration, data quality and analytics solutions [+1]
#24 Domino Data Lab – Enterprise AI platform
#25 Teradata [NYSE: TDC] Cloud-based data analytics and trusted AI [+4]
#26 HPE [NYSE: HPE]
#27 Kinetica – Real-time database [+3]
#28 Scale AI – Accelerate the development of AI applications [+3]
#29 Cloudera [Verta] – The hybrid data company
#30 Stability AI – Open models in every modality, for everyone, everywhere.
#31 Cerebras – Fast AI inference [+7]
#32 Dremio – Unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI [+2]
#33 Fiddler Labs – AI observability, ML model monitoring, LLM monitoring [+2]
#34 Cohere – Enterprise AI platform. Cohere empowers every developer and enterprise to build amazing products and capture true business value with language AI. Research by Cohere for AI. Cohere Youtube channel. [+7]
#35 Alteryx [NYSE: AYX] – AI analytics platform [+1]
#36 C3.ai [NYSE: AI] – Enterprise AI software [+1]
#37 HowSo – Causal AI & understandable synthetic data [+2]
#38 Comet– Build better models faster [+2]
#39 Allen Institute for AI (AI2) – AI research and engineering. AI2 develops foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond. Try Molmo, a family of open state-of-the-art multimodal AI models. [+3]
#40 Zilliz – Vector database built for enterprise-grade AI applications [+3]
#41 MongoDB [NASDAQ: MDB] – The developer data platform
#42 Starburst – Data lakehouse platform built with Trino [+2]
#43 Apple Machine Learning Research [NASDAQ: AAPL] – ML research at Apple. Apple machine learning teams are engaged in state of the art research in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Explore advancements in Machine Learning. NEW
#44 SambaNova Systems – Revolutionize AI workloads NEW
#45 Galileo – The GenAI evaluation company [+5]
#46 Dell Technologies [NYSE: DELL] – AI solutions from desktop to data center to cloud
#47 Arize AI – AI observability & LLM evaluation platform [+2]
#48 Groq – LPU AI inference engine. Fast AI inference in the cloud and in on-prem AI compute centers. Read our latest whitepaper outlining the four core design principles of an LPU and how it differs from a GPU. [+1]
#49 Couchbase [NASDAQ: BASE] – NoSQL cloud database service
#50 Data Robot – Unified platform for generative and predictive AI
HONORABLE MENTION companies (in alphabetical order):
Aerospike – Massively scalable, millisecond latency, real-time database
Alluxio – Data orchestration for the cloud
Anyscale – Supercharge your AI platform
AtScale – Semantic layer solution – BI & data & analytics software
Baseten – Deploy AI models in production
Beyond Limits – Enterprise AI software solutions
causaLens – Empowering data scientists using AI agents
Coalesce – Data transformation solution built for scale
DataDirect Networks – Data intelligence platform built for AI
DataGPT – Conversational AI data analyst
DataKitchen – Open source data observability, data quality and DataOps software
Dataloop – AI development platform
Datastax – GenAI stack to build production-ready apps
Deepgram – Text-to-speech + speech-to-text APIs
Deeplite – Optimized AI models for the edge
Delphina – GenAI meets data science
Featureform – Open-source virtual feature store
Graphcore – Accelerating ML in the cloud
GridGain – Unified Real-time Data Platform
Hailo – Edge AI processors
HEAVY.AI – GPU-accelerated analytics platform
Hopsworks – Real-time AI lakehouse
Ikigai Labs – Generative AI for enterprise data
Imbue – Collaborative agents that can reason and code
MariaDB [NYSE: MRDB] – Enterprise open source database
Matillion – The data productivity cloud
MindsDB – Conversational enterprise-ready AI
ModelOp – AI governance software for enterprises
Modular – MAX: a high performance GenAI framework
MOSTLY AI – Synthetic data generation
Natural Intelligence – Pattern based neuromorphic computing
Nebius AI – Cloud for AI explorers
Neuton – No-code AI for all.
Nomic AI – Explainable & accessible AI
Obviously AI – Data science without code. The fastest, most precise no-code AI tool ever. Turn AI into ROI by going from raw data to industry leading predictive models in minutes, not months. Use case: How LearningLeaders built AI with 80% accuracy to improve student success.
Ocient – Data analytics solution provider
Posit – Open-source data science (RStudio). A better way to deploy R & Python. Posit makes it easy to deploy open source data science work across the enterprise safely and securely. Share Jupyter notebooks, Plotly dashboards, or interactive applications built with popular R and Python frameworks including Shiny, Streamlit, Dash, and Flask. RStudio: The most trusted IDE for open source data science
Pure Storage [NYSE: PSTG] – Unified enterprise data platform
Qumulo – Data simplified anywhere at exabyte scale
RelationalAI – Knowledge graph coprocessor for your data cloud
Runway – Gen-3 Alpha: a new frontier for fast, high-fidelity, controllable video generation. Advancing creativity with artificial intelligence. Runway is an applied AI research company building the next era of art, entertainment and human creativity. Production-ready AI made for enterprises.
Seek AI – Trusted AI platform for data
Snorkel AI – Programmatic AI data development
Tecton – Power every experience with AI
ThirdAI – Production ready AI platform for your enterprise
Together AI – The AI acceleration cloud
SingleStore – Real-time data platform for intelligent applications
SQream – GPU accelerated big data processing
Striim – Real-time data integration and streaming platform
Yellowbrick – SQL data platform. Secure. Efficient. Anywhere. For enterprise data warehousing, ad-hoc and streaming analytics, BI and AI workloads. Use case: LexisNexis. Risk Management & Fraud Detection. Yellowbrick dramatically improves the performance and reliability of a critical fraud detection application.
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