AIDX is an independent composite index tracking the AI field in real time — adoption, momentum, and community signal, scored continuously. Each year we name the companies that defined it across ten categories. Since 2020.
The AIDX awards mark the companies that shaped the year across the ten categories that matter most.
Finding and reasoning over information.
The frontier models everyone builds on.
Where developers ship faster.
Speech, agents, and lifelike voice.
Generative image, video, and 3D.
Automating real, cross-app work.
Deployed inside big organizations.
The chips, compute, and serving layer.
Generative sound and music.
AI for makers, writers, and designers.
No fee places a company on the index, and no partnership moves a rank.
Public adoption, momentum, and community signal feed the composite score.
Positions recompute continuously — the board you see is the board right now.
At the close of each cycle, the category winners are conferred from the standings.
The full composite index, updating continuously. Filter by any of the ten categories.
The winners for the 2026 cycle. Each card names this year’s recipient — open Past years to see the winners back to 2020.
Submissions for the 2026 cycle are open. Free to enter — the index never charges for placement.
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