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Week 2026-W42. Scored on recorded activity, with time decay so new entrants can climb.

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    Clueso

    Clueso is an AI-powered video creation platform designed for teams producing marketing, product demo, training, and internal communication videos. The platform automates planning, scripting, recording, editing, and updating of videos, aiming to reduce production time and effort.

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    HyLight

    Critical infrastructure such as power lines, pipelines, and railways requires regular inspection to prevent failures. Traditional methods rely on helicopters or short-range drones, which are slow, costly, and environmentally harmful. HyLight proposes an alternative using autonomous airships for large-scale, zero-emission monitoring.

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    Loops

    Software development agencies often struggle to balance high-performance backend systems with user-friendly interfaces. LOOPS positions itself as a software engineering and design agency specializing in scalable, cloud-native applications that maintain reliability under real-world conditions.

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    Unitree

    Unitree Robotics develops and manufactures high-performance quadrupedal and humanoid robots for entertainment, industrial, and public demonstration applications. The company has demonstrated its products in large-scale cultural events, suggesting capabilities in coordinated multi-robot performance and real-time control.

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    Catalyst

    Catalyst is a platform that allows users to define trading strategies in plain English, which the system then translates into automated workflows. These workflows monitor real-time market signals and execute trades based on predefined conditions.

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    AI3D Studio — ai3d.studio

    AI3D Studio is a browser-based platform that converts 2D inputs—such as photos, text prompts, sketches, or multiple views—into 3D models in formats like GLB, FBX, STL, or USDZ. It integrates 11 third-party AI generation models and 13 post-processing tools to support workflows for game developers and 3D printing makers.

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    SignSplit

    SignSplit is a platform designed to allow individuals and institutions to manage their data, work, and likeness by enabling protection, licensing, and contribution to third parties. The service targets demand from AI, research, and media sectors for authenticated human-generated content.

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    Decart

    Decart is an AI lab developing real-time world models designed to operate at millisecond latency. The company focuses on creating environments that respond instantly to inputs, targeting applications in robotics, autonomous systems, and live video transformation.

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    Oratomic

    Oratomic is a quantum computing company developing fault-tolerant quantum computers using neutral atoms. The company aims to address the longstanding challenge of error correction in quantum systems, which has historically limited practical applications of quantum computing.

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    Isomorphic Labs

    Isomorphic Labs is a company applying artificial intelligence to drug discovery, aiming to accelerate scientific breakthroughs and develop new medicines. The company builds on the AlphaFold system, which was recognized with a Nobel Prize, to model biological phenomena and design molecules using AI.

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    Arena

    Arena AI operates a public leaderboard for evaluating large language models (LLMs), image, and code models through community-driven comparisons. The platform allows users to interact with AI models, compare outputs, and vote on performance, aggregating real-world evaluations into rankings.

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    Nous Research

    Nous Research is an open-source AI research organization focused on developing agent-based systems and infrastructure to broaden access to advanced intelligence. The company emphasizes transparency and user autonomy through its MIT-licensed projects, including Hermes Agent, a self-improving AI agent framework.

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    NODES

    Blockchain networks rely on nodes—individual computers that participate in maintaining, validating, and securing the distributed ledger. These nodes ensure decentralization by enforcing consensus rules and verifying transactions.

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    Everkind

    Everkind is a mobile application designed as a journal and AI companion for mental wellness. It combines reflective journaling, personalized activities, and meditations to support emotional balance and stress reduction. The app is developed with input from clinical psychologists and therapists.

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    Nearhuman

    Nearhuman develops edge AI and computer vision systems aimed at improving safety for micromobility vehicles such as e-scooters and e-bikes. The company focuses on addressing real-world safety challenges that increase operational costs and pose risks to riders and pedestrians.

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    Lambda

    Lambda provides cloud-based access to high-performance NVIDIA GPUs for AI training and inference. The service targets organizations needing scalable compute resources without managing physical infrastructure. Users can launch on-demand instances or reserve dedicated clusters with liquid cooling and high-density power systems.

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    Ghost

    Ghost offers Core, a hardware device marketed as a personal AI computer. The company positions it as a tool for users who want to retain control over their data and AI interactions. Core is designed to operate entirely on-device, avoiding cloud dependencies and subscriptions.

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    Vinci

    VINCI is a global group operating in over 120 countries, focusing on concessions, energy services, and construction. The company positions itself as contributing to environmental and energy transitions while addressing infrastructure and mobility challenges.

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    Elio

    Pharmaceutical companies face regulatory and market pressure to report product carbon footprints (PCFs) for their chemical inputs, but existing life-cycle assessment (LCA) databases cover only a fraction of the specialty chemicals used in drug synthesis.

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    LensX

    LensX offers an enterprise software platform that integrates finance, HR, and operations data into a single system. The company claims this unified view helps executives make decisions without manually reconstructing context from multiple sources.

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    FieldAI

    FieldAI develops embodied AI software for mobile robots, aiming to enable autonomous operation in real-world environments.

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    Model ML

    Model ML offers an AI-powered finance agent designed to integrate with financial professionals' existing workflows. The company claims its tool operates within common software environments and connects to internal and external data sources in real time, aiming to enhance efficiency and insight generation for financial services.

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    World Labs

    World Labs is a spatial intelligence company developing AI models designed to process, generate, and interact with 3D environments. The company aims to bridge the gap between perception and action in both virtual and physical spaces, addressing challenges in 3D world generation and manipulation.

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    Hestus

    Hestus is an AI-powered copilot integrated into Autodesk Fusion, designed to assist engineers and designers by automating repetitive tasks in computer-aided design (CAD).

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    NODES

    Nodes offers enterprise software designed to integrate company knowledge, decision-making, and action across existing systems. The product aims to address the fragmentation of business context across siloed data sources and manual processes by connecting records, human judgment, and outcomes into a unified context graph.

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