Gold Performers

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If the Hyperscalers with capital spending plans of $B in 2026 represent Platinum Peformers in NEA rankings, it’s because they are the primary companies with the financial depth to complete an industrial buildout for AI, data centers, improvements in the electrical grid and environmental provisions, and with government spending, the Gold Performers are the at-scale software and hardware systems design companies whose application portfolios run in these data centers and their solutions are suitable across nearly every industry and government application.

Open AI, Privately Held

NARRATIVE Open AI, with flagship and industry leading Generative AI app SaaS ChatGPT Recently completed another round of financing among a group of private invstors, namely SoftBank, Amazon and Nvidia totalling $110B. Planned use NARRATIVE

Anthropic, Privately Held

NARRATIVE has been very successful with Generative AI program Claude which is particulalry popular with programmers because it's always been an open source platform. Despite the recent snub by the US Government, what's said outwardly is that Anthropic security threat. But being a little cynical, it's beause the government already picked industry leader Open AI and dertmined there isn't room for two. The last funding round was xxx and a duck and a lion were the primary investors. This round and previous rounds suggests a valuation in the range of x and y.

ARM Holdings, American Depository Shares ( NASDAQ: ARM )

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Databricks, Privately Held

Databricks most recent funding round implies a valuation of $130B with Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Partners. There's a little churn in the private venture crowd; Peter Theil's hedge fund and Softbank have quietly liquidated their ownership in Databricks.

Mistral AI, Privately Held

Mistral AI narrative

Perplexity AI, Privately Held

Mistral AI narrative