Q1 of 2024 saw billions poured into AI Startup funding and big bet investments from AI/Cloud platform providers, a breakneck pace of innovation and a series of disruptive, even market-changing, products and solutions go generally available (GA). The period introduced partnerships and partner ecosystem expansions, which inspired the Analysts at Acceleration Economy to create the AI Ecosystem Top 12 Pioneers ranking, which includes industry heavyweights NVIDIA, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Anthropic, ServiceNow, Oracle, UiPath, Databricks, Cohere, IBM, and Celonis.
This quarterly report, created by AI Ecosystem Analyst Toni Witt delivers a “quick to the point” perspective on the companies, investments, innovations and solutions that are shaping the future of AI, along with a brief on why each company in the AI Ecosystem Top 12 was chosen.
Beyond the AI Ecosystem Top 12, here are the companies featured in the analysis:
- Innovation: BlueRock, Salesforce, Amazon, Character AI, Splash, Volley, Accenture, Unilever, ASU, OpenAI, NFL, AWS, The AI Alliance, Bankwell, Casca, ServiceNow, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, Bayer
- Funding: Vast, Nabla, Robin AI, Amazon, Blueshift, Kore.ai, Jua, Perplexity, Rasa, Bria AI, Figure, Spacely AI
- Products: Alibaba, Intel, Articul, VW, Vertice, Vicarius, OpenAI, Tachyum, Pecan AI, Sora, Salesforce, Google Cloud, Hugging Face, Groq