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Best Native AI Companies in Los Angeles, United States

The 133 best Native AI companies in Los Angeles, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: VideoVerse.

133companies tracked
$672.3Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
44have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · NATIVE AI × LOS ANGELES

Our analysis of 100 Native AI companies

$80.0b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

100companies analysed
98%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
48unicorns
2021median founding year
102kcombined LinkedIn audience
47%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Native AI companies in Los Angeles

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1VideoVerse
Provider of AI-driven technology for video editing and content transformation
$107M30 mo ago285
285 → 234 (-18%)
Vinayak Shrivastav
Co-Founder & CEO
WordPressMySQLPHP+26Top 10M——
2Verses
Provider of AI-integrated digital twins for data distribution
74Funding top 19%Innovation top 23%Talent top 29%AI top 30%
All 12 signals ▾
Fundingtop 19%
Innovationtop 23%
Talenttop 29%
AItop 30%
Producttop 35%
Newstop 46%
Globaltop 46%
Marketbottom 49%
Growthbottom 47%
Techbottom 45%
Moatbottom 45%
Partnersbottom 43%
Funding: Raised $78.3M across 14 rounds · 14 rounds over 6 yrs (2.3/yr)
Innovation: 4 new-product events in 24 mo · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100
$78M3 mo ago37Dan Mapes
Co-Founder
HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+21Top 5M——
3Regard
Provider of AI-based platform to analyze EHR and provide insights
$76M23 mo ago—Eli Ben-Joseph
Co-Founder & CEO
WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+28Top 10M——
4rabbit
Developer of an AI agent designed to automate digital tasks
$65M27 mo ago6Dan Ferris
Co-Founder & CSO
ShopifyApple iCloud MailNode.js+22Top 5M33 patents
Networked voice-enabled user interfaces for product and service interaction
—
5Futureverse
AI-enabled metaverse platform
$54M35 mo ago153Aaron McDonald
Founder & CEO
WebflowGSAPLenis+14Top 5M4 patents
Distributed computing data interoperability and AI-driven music synthesis technologies.
—
6Pictor Labs
AI-based solutions for pathological image analysis
$49M17 mo ago29Yair Rivenson
Co-Founder & CEO
Framer SitesVimeoReact+11Top 10M6 patents
AI-powered digital pathology: virtual staining, immunostain analysis, and analyte detection.
—
7Endgame
Provider of the customer observability platform to enterprises
$48M52 mo ago40———50 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
—
8Kindo
Provider of an AI-native control plane for technical operations platform
$28M23 mo ago15Tony Wong
Co-Founder
WordPressHubSpot CMS HubMySQL+29Top 5M——
9AiMi
AI-based platform offering personalized music to listeners
$20M55 mo ago19Edward Balassanian
CEO
WordPress Block EditorWordPress Site EditorWordPress+28Top 10M55 patents
AI-driven personalized music generation and interactive composition systems
—
10Flossy
Provider of AI-based platform for dental practices, patients, and payors
$18M46 mo ago30Steve Seigel
Co-Founder
WebflowAmazon Web ServicesTVSquared+23Top 5M——
11Salt AI
Developer of an AI engine for accelerating life sciences advancements
$13M8 mo ago—Aber Whitcomb
Co-Founder & CEO
————
12Jurny
Provider of AI-powered platform for short-term rental and hotel management
$12M14 mo ago34Luca Zambello
Co-Founder & CEO
Node.jsPlyrReact+19Top 10M——
13FedML
Provider of an open-source MLOps platform for research
$12M35 mo ago16—Google Sign-inUnoCSSAnt Design+5Top 50M——
14Quilter
Developer of AI-driven electronics design software for hardware development programs
50Growth top 28%AI top 30%Funding top 32%Tech top 48%
All 10 signals ▾
Growthtop 28%
AItop 30%
Fundingtop 32%
Techtop 48%
Moatbottom 49%
Talentbottom 49%
Innovationbottom 45%
Patentsbottom 40%
Globalbottom 40%
Marketbottom 26%
Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-driven
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100
$10M8 mo ago8Sergiy Nesterenko
Founder & CEO
WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19Top 5M8 patents
Design and optimization of guitar audio amplification circuits and components
1 award
15Vody
Developer of AI-optimized data layer for retail customer experience enhancement
$10M67 mo ago9Stephanie Horbaczewski
Co-Founder & CEO
Cart FunctionalityShopifyanime.js+20Top 50M——
16VoiceVault
Provider of voice biometric solution for mobile and on-device and telephony applications
$10M205 mo ago1,480Andrew Lawson
CEO
————
17Fintor
Developer of AI agents for automating financial and real estate operations
$9M44 mo ago7Masoud Jalali
Co-Founder & CTO
Node.jsThree.jsRadix UI+11Top 50M——
18Vault
AI-based predictive content analytics and marketing platform
$8M54 mo ago10Ziv Ayalon
Co-Founder & CTO
WordPressMySQLPHP+26Top 50M3 patents
Antimicrobial and anti‑inflammatory drug formulations for infectious and age‑related diseases
—
19Drover
AI-powered computer vision for micromobility
$5M37 mo ago9Alex Nesic
Co-Founder & CBO
——3 patents
Precise GPS localization and geofencing control for light electric vehicles
—
20Operative Intelligence
Developer of an AI platform for contact center analytics and insights
$5M46 mo ago16James Iansek
Co-Founder
————
21CamFind
Provider of an image recognition-based mobile visual search engine
$5M135 mo ago52—Google CloudGSAPjQuery+7Top 5M4 patents
Visual search and image analysis for e‑commerce product identification
—
22Uthana
Provider of AI-based 3D animation solutions
$4M15 mo ago—Viren Tellis
Co-Founder & CEO
WebflowNginxOpenResty+13Top 5M—2 launchs
23PiLogic
Platform developing multiple AI solutions
$4M14 mo ago—Mark Chavira
Founder and CTO
————
24Truth Systems
Security solutions for large language models
$4M7 mo ago—Nam Nguyen
Co-Founder
WebflowVimeoGSAP+8Top 50M——
25Senpi
Provider of an onchain AI assistant for navigating and automating crypto trading
78AI top 8%Tech top 25%Talent top 28%Growth top 35%
All 8 signals ▾
AItop 8%
Techtop 25%
Talenttop 28%
Growthtop 35%
Fundingtop 49%
Globalbottom 48%
Productbottom 40%
Customersbottom 6%
AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company
Tech: 29 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100
$4M9 mo ago—Ignas Peciura
Co-Founder
Node.jsTailwind CSSKong+16Top 10M——
26Quivr
Online social listening and comments analytics platform
$4M28 mo ago—Diego Alves
Co-Founder
TurbopackNode.jsTailwind CSS+12Top 10M——
27CloudSight
APIs for image recognition & captioning
$3M101 mo ago9—MediumTypeScriptGraphQL+14Top 50M21 patents
Client‑side image analysis and content‑based visual search for mobile/desktop applications
—
28Filmustage
SaaS and AI-enabled script breakdown solutions provider
$2M22 mo ago10Egor Dubrovsky
Co-Founder & CEO
InstatusApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+29Top 5M——
29SOTAI
Platform offering artificial intelligence through modeling techniques and analysis tooling
$2M32 mo ago—William Bakst
Co-Founder & CEO
————
30Noctal
Online platform offering digital music studio solutions to artists
$2M19 mo ago—James Paul
Co-Founder & COO
TurbopackNode.jsTailwind CSS+11Top 50M—1 launch
31Immersion
Provider of experience measurement technology
$1M66 mo ago16Jorge Barraza
Co-Founder
Framer SitesReactAmazon Web Services+14Top 50M3,946 patents
Advanced haptic rendering and multi‑actuator tactile feedback for immersive VR/AR experiences
—
32Keyframe Labs
Developer of interactive video models with photorealism, emotion, and real-time latency
$500K2 mo ago—Parth R
Co-founder
WebflowGSAPPostHog+9Top 10M——
33Focus Motion
Provider of AI-based wearables and application for health, wellness and fitness
$250K83 mo ago3—————
34Nexscient
Provider of AI solutions including predictive analytics and computer vision
32AI top 26%Funding top 45%Tech top 50%Talent bottom 49%
All 6 signals ▾
AItop 26%
Fundingtop 45%
Techtop 50%
Talentbottom 49%
Globalbottom 37%
Marketbottom 25%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: computer vision, machine learning
Funding: Raised $180k across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100
$180K1 mo ago—Fred Tannous
CEO
WordPressMySQLPHP+24Top 50M——

Top 12 Native AI companies in Los Angeles

#1
Public · Los Angeles, California · founded 2018 · 37 employees
$78.3Mraised
▾

Provider of AI-integrated digital twins for data distribution. It designs and develops spatial rights management tools for enterprises, organizations, and governments. Its systems enable cognitive computing, order picking, visual navigation, and AI-powered personal assistance.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 74how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 19%
Innovation
top 23%
Talent
top 29%
AI
top 30%
Product
top 35%
News
top 46%
Funding: Raised $78.3M across 14 rounds · 14 rounds over 6 yrs (2.3/yr) · Last round Post IPO (Mar 2026)
Innovation: 4 new-product events in 24 mo · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated · 8 leadership moves in 12 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 22k LinkedIn followers — 21.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2026Post IPO$518.3K
  • Dec 2024Post IPO$9.8M
  • Sep 2024Post IPO$3.7M
  • Jun 2024Post IPO$10M
Founders & team
Dan MapesCo-FounderGabriel ReneFounder and CEO
Investors
G42, Europa
Tech stack
Animate.CssApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle Analytics
#2
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2023
$13Mraised
▾

Developer of an AI engine for accelerating life sciences advancements. The company enables life sciences organizations to adopt and harness AI. It provides reliable and reproducible AI workflows engineered to accommodate advancements in computational techniques for drug discovery. The platform optimizes each onboarded model for speed, enabling faster time to output at reduced compute costs. The company supports life sciences research models in its updated model library, including models for protein folding, diffusion, docking, and protein sequence design. The platform's visual transparency and node structure invites collaborative interaction beyond those who code, allowing biochemists, clinical development teams, executives, and other stakeholders to engage real-time to shape workflows and iterate solutions.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 13k LinkedIn followers — 13.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Series A$10M
  • Dec 2024Seed$3M
Founders & team
Aber WhitcombCo-Founder & CEOJim BenedettoCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Morpheus Ventures, Struck Capital, Irregular Expressions, Marbruck Investments, CoreWeave, Andreessen Horowitz
#3
Series B · Los Angeles, California · founded 2019 · 8 employees
$10Mraised
▾

Developer of AI-driven electronics design software for hardware development programs. The software generates multiple design candidates and validates traces using physics. It automates PCB layout, enabling engineers to focus on complex tasks. The software supports existing workflows and provides transparent design reviews.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 50how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 28%
AI
top 30%
Funding
top 32%
Tech
top 48%
Moat
bottom 49%
Talent
bottom 49%
Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-driven
Funding: Raised $10.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series B (Oct 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 5k LinkedIn followers — 4.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2025Series B$25M
  • Feb 2024Series A$10M
Founders & team
Sergiy NesterenkoFounder & CEO
Investors
Benchmark, Coatue, Root Ventures, Harrison Metal, Index Ventures
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareEmotionGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle WorkspaceHsts
#4
Series B · Los Angeles, California · founded 2019 · 29 employees
$48.8Mraised
▾

AI-based solutions for pathological image analysis. It provides an AI-based tool to lab team members to analyze the tissue images responsible for causing infections, cancer, and other diseases.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 3.4% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2025Series B—
  • Aug 2024Series B$30M
  • May 2022Series A$15.2M
  • Aug 2020Seed$3.6M
Founders & team
Yair RivensonCo-Founder & CEOAydogan OzcanCo-Founder
Investors
M Ventures, SCC Soft Computer, Koc Holding, Insight Partners, LabCorp, Motus Ventures
Tech stack
CloudflareDropboxGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted LibrariesGoogle WorkspaceHsts
#5
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2023
$4Mraised
▾

Security solutions for large language models. It enables users protect against critical errors with real-time hallucination detection, and monitors and gains insights into model factuality. The company supports the use of novel architectures that outperform models, ensuring Large Language Models by double-checking answer and offering integration processes.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 752 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2025Seed$4M
Founders & team
Nam NguyenCo-FounderAnh MacCo-Founder
Investors
Gradient Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Y Combinator, LegalTech, Pear VC
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGoogle WorkspaceGsapHstsHttp/3
#6
Series B · Los Angeles, California · founded 2016
$76.3Mraised
▾

Provider of AI-based platform to analyze EHR and provide insights. It aims to enhace patient outcomes, streamline clinical workflows, and enhance decision-making processes. The platform scans all data, reveals important insights, suggests diagnoses, and creates care plans in order to integrate into the current workflow. The platform generates documentation prior to physician review. It enhances quality of care by surfacing insights in patient medical history.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2024Series B$61M
  • Jun 2022Series A$15.3M
  • Mar 2018Seed—
  • 2017Seed$20K
Founders & team
Eli Ben-JosephCo-Founder & CEONate WilsonCo-Founder
Investors
Techstars, Dreamit, Susa Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, Foundry, TenOneTen
Tech stack
6SenseAlpine.JsAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#7
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2025
$4Mraised
▾

Provider of an onchain AI assistant for navigating and automating crypto trading. The company offers a platform that allows users to automate trades, copy trading strategies, and set limit orders. It provides tools for developers to build and integrate new skills into the AI assistant, enabling functionalities such as trading tools, analytics, loans, and yield farming. The platform supports onchain transactions and facilitates the creation of automated trading rules based on various triggers.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 78how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 8%
Tech
top 25%
Talent
top 28%
Growth
top 35%
Funding
top 49%
Global
bottom 48%
AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company
Tech: 29 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Observability: Datadog
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Seed$4M
Founders & team
Ignas PeciuraCo-FounderSarvesh JainCo-FounderJason GoldbergCo-Founder
Investors
Lemniscap, Coinbase, Superlayer, Auros, Mana Ventures, Primal Group
Tech stack
ChatwootCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDatadogGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#8
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2025
$500Kraised
▾

Developer of interactive video models with photorealism, emotion, and real-time latency. The models enable text and voice agents to conduct lifelike video calls. Components facilitate deployment and support simultaneous connections.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 407 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Seed$500K
Founders & team
Parth RCo-founderKaahan RCo-Founder
Investors
Y Combinator
Tech stack
CdnjsCloudflareGsapHstsHttp/3Jquery
#9
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2017 · 34 employees
$12.4Mraised
▾

Provider of AI-powered platform for short-term rental and hotel management. The platform offers tools for managing guest communications, reservations, revenue, and housekeeping. It provides features such as a unified inbox, AI-driven insights, and automated review responses. The platform also includes a guest application, digital guidebooks, and a booking engine.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers — 7.8% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Angel—
  • Aug 2023Series A$2M
  • Oct 2021Series A$9.5M
Founders & team
Luca ZambelloCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Mucker, Okapi Venture Capital, SaaS Ventures, VitalizeVC
#10
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2022 · 15 employees
$27.6Mraised
▾

Provider of an AI-native control plane for technical operations platform. The platform offers security, DevOps, and IT engineers a shared terminal. It facilitates planning, execution, and validation of operations. The platform integrates tools, data, and environments, enabling automation. It supports incident response, identity and access management, and vulnerability management. It also covers network security, red teaming, governance, risk, compliance, and threat intelligence.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 4.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2024Series A$20.6M
  • Sep 2023Seed$7M
Founders & team
Tony WongCo-FounderBryan VannCo-founder and CTORon WilliamsCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Riot, Eniac Ventures, RRE Ventures, Marlinspike, Flexcap Ventures Management, New Era Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#11
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2023
$180Kraised
▾

Provider of AI solutions including predictive analytics and computer vision. The company offers services such as big data engineering, cloud computing, and digital transformation. It provides AI applications, industrial automation, and machine learning operations. The company serves industries including financial services, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, retail, and travel.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 32how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 26%
Funding
top 45%
Tech
top 50%
Talent
bottom 49%
Global
bottom 37%
Market
bottom 25%
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: computer vision, machine learning
Funding: Raised $180k across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) · Last round Series A (Apr 2026)
Tech: 27 technologies across 3/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Security: Cloudflare Bot Management, Http/3
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Series A$475K
  • Dec 2025Series A$760K
  • Sep 2024Seed$180K
Founders & team
Fred TannousCEO
Investors
SRG
Tech stack
ChoicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesCore-JsDropzone
#12
Acquired · Los Angeles, California · founded 2016 · 285 employees
$106.9Mraised
▾

Provider of AI-driven technology for video editing and content transformation. The company offers solutions for generating video highlights, content moderation, and web stories production. It also provides tools for online video editing, dynamic content transformation, and smart distribution. The platform refines content and enhances consumption across media genres.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 13k LinkedIn followers — 12.3% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Series B$45M
  • Apr 2022Series B$46.8M
  • Oct 2021Series A$11.8M
  • May 2020Seed$1M
Founders & team
Vinayak ShrivastavCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Hyderabad Angels, Mumbai Angels, Saranam Ventures, Tatpurnam Enterprises, Suhasiti Solutions, Thermopads App
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerBootstrapCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsContact Form 7

Funding & investor landscape

$672.3Mtotal disclosed funding
35companies funded
76disclosed rounds
1rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Andreessen Horowitz3 rounds
PLG Ventures3 rounds
Techstars3 rounds
Y Combinator3 rounds
500 Global2 rounds
Astir Ventures2 rounds
Huashan Capital2 rounds
Hustle Fund2 rounds
JHV2 rounds
Mana Ventures2 rounds

Notable founders

Dan Mapes
Co-Founder · Verses
Gabriel Rene
Founder and CEO · Verses
Aber Whitcomb
Co-Founder & CEO · Salt AI
Jim Benedetto
Co-Founder & CTO · Salt AI
Sergiy Nesterenko
Founder & CEO · Quilter
Yair Rivenson
Co-Founder & CEO · Pictor Labs
Aydogan Ozcan
Co-Founder · Pictor Labs
Nam Nguyen
Co-Founder · Truth Systems
Anh Mac
Co-Founder · Truth Systems
Eli Ben-Joseph
Co-Founder & CEO · Regard
Nate Wilson
Co-Founder · Regard
Ignas Peciura
Co-Founder · Senpi
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 3,095,677 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Native AI coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States

How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in the United States

A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 5,214 United States-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
200820172026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 38% → 44% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
  • Stanford University181
  • Google161
  • University of Tennessee at Chattanooga139
  • University of California, Berkeley129
  • Harvard University111
leading researchers
Stylianos Chatzimanolis · Giannis Bolanakis · TARIK DEDOVIC · KATH-RYN ANN F. HANKINS · Christoforos Pavlou · Wordly Knowledge Publishing Centre · Griselda Poe · Lee Sharks
▲ Breakthroughs2,507 · 48%
48%→48% share
▲1.0× share momentum0 median citations68% since 2021mostly methods-led
Cognition research is surging — papers jumped from 3 to 73, with Architecture showing identical explosive growth.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Robustness (evolution)12→84
  • Inference42→112
  • Benchmark (surveying)28→98
  • Cognition3→73
  • Architecture3→71
Newly emergingCoherence (philosophical gambling strategy) 0→46 · Corporate governance 0→33 · Stability (learning theory) 0→26
Landmark ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks · 75,550 cites
◆ Advancements1,010 · 19%
▼ 23%→19% share
▼0.8× share momentum0 median citations66% since 2021mostly methods-led
Random forest adoption is intensifying — US AI papers rose from 1 to 26, signaling renewed ensemble-method interest.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Artificial neural network12→50
  • Feature (linguistics)7→40
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)18→44
  • Random forest1→26
  • Generative grammar3→26
Newly emergingKey (lock) 0→36 · Workflow 0→17 · Logistic regression 0→14
Landmark Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision · 30,404 cites
▼ Concerns755 · 14%
▼ 17%→13% share
▼0.8× share momentum0 median citations63% since 2021mostly empirical
Software deployment newly emerged at 33 papers while field-share contracted from 17% to 13%, signaling growing deployment risk awareness.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Identification (biology)5→33
  • Cognition10→33
  • Key (lock)8→29
  • Context (archaeology)8→27
  • Workflow1→20
Newly emergingSoftware deployment 0→33 · Generative grammar 0→18 · Consciousness 0→12
Landmark "Why Should I Trust You?" · 14,315 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States

Where artificial intelligence is researched across United States

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

SF Bay Area346 · +0.59
Hot · Natural language processingAdvancing · Computer graphics (images)Opportunity · TransformerConcern · Workflow
Boston316 · +0.49
Hot · VisibilityAdvancing · ReputationOpportunity · Generative modelConcern · Causal inference
New York249 · +0.48
Hot · Test (biology)Advancing · Convolutional neural networkOpportunity · WorkflowConcern · Deep neural networks
Pittsburgh129 · +0.59
Hot · PoseAdvancing · Modular designOpportunity · Pipeline (software)Concern · Data science
Los Angeles112 · +0.47
Hot · Signal processingAdvancing · Markov chain Monte CarloOpportunity · Probabilistic logicConcern · Robotics
Chicago96 · +0.61
Hot · Social psychologyAdvancing · Realization (probability)Opportunity · Code (set theory)
San Diego86 · +0.55
Hot · Recommender systemAdvancing · False positive paradoxOpportunity · AutoencoderConcern · Health care
Seattle79 · +0.54
Hot · Natural language processingAdvancing · InterpretabilityOpportunity · Adaptation (eye)Concern · Data science
Atlanta76 · +0.60
Hot · Question answeringAdvancing · Speech recognitionOpportunity · Graph
Philadelphia76 · +0.58
Hot · Pipeline (software)Advancing · Statistical inferenceOpportunity · Selection (genetic algorithm)
PATENT SIGNAL · United States

Who's filing artificial intelligence patents in the United States

United States artificial intelligence patent filing is accelerating — 228,639 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by IBM, Google, Microsoft; annual filings 5224→30960.

228,639 filings8,000 assigneespeak 35558/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • IBM23444
  • Google13807
  • Microsoft13068
  • Intel6213
  • Qualcomm5449
  • Capital One Services3809
  • Nvidia3261
  • Adobe2835

Common questions

How many Native AI companies are there in Los Angeles, United States?
Radar tracks 133 indexable Native AI companies headquartered in Los Angeles, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Native AI companies in Los Angeles, United States?
The Native AI companies in Los Angeles, United States on this list have raised a combined $672.3M in disclosed equity funding across 35 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Native AI company in Los Angeles, United States?
VideoVerse is the highest-funded Native AI company in Los Angeles, United States, with $106.9M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Native AI companies in Los Angeles, United States are funded?
35 of the 133 Native AI companies in Los Angeles, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Native AI unicorns are there in Los Angeles, United States?
None of the Native AI companies in Los Angeles, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Los Angeles, United States Native AI companies?
The most active investors in Los Angeles, United States Native AI companies on this list include Andreessen Horowitz, PLG Ventures, Techstars, Y Combinator, 500 Global.
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