AI Exposure Leaderboard

Every tracked stock ranked by its AI Exposure Score: our editorial 0-100 rating of how much the business is tied to the AI buildout. Not a financial metric.

Market data as of the close on . Prices are end of day, not live.

511 stocks ยท showing 1 to 50

1CBRSCerebras Systems100Pure Play$47.13B+2.18%

Cerebras sells wafer-scale AI processors, CS-3 systems, and inference cloud services for training and running large models. The company exists solely to serve AI compute demand, making it a pure play on the buildout.

2NVDANVIDIA97Pure Play$5.37T+1.34%

Sells the GPUs, networking, and CUDA software stack that nearly every AI training and inference cluster is built on, mostly to hyperscalers and AI labs. Data center AI demand is now the overwhelming majority of revenue and the entire thesis.

3NBISNebius Group97Pure Play$56.76B+2.55%

Nebius operates an NVIDIA-backed GPU cloud selling AI compute and infrastructure services, with Microsoft and Meta on its customer book. The company exists to monetize AI training and inference demand, making it a pure play on the buildout.

4CRWVCoreWeave97Pure Play$44.87B+1.85%

CoreWeave rents Nvidia GPU clusters to AI labs and enterprises for training and inference, with contracted capacity from customers like Microsoft and OpenAI. The company exists solely because of AI compute demand, making it a pure play on the buildout.

5AURAurora Innovation97Pure Play$12.65B-2.77%

Aurora sells autonomous trucking capability, commercializing the Aurora Driver on freight routes with partners like PACCAR and Volvo. The company has essentially no non-AI business, so its value rides entirely on driverless trucking reaching scale.

6KODKodiak Robotics97Pure Play$2.06B-0.43%

Kodiak sells autonomous driving technology for long-haul trucking and unmanned defense vehicles, licensing its Kodiak Driver system to fleets and military customers. The company has no business outside AI autonomy, making it a pure play on self-driving commercialization.

7APLDApplied Digital95Pure Play$7.99B+6.60%

Applied Digital builds and leases high density data centers and GPU cloud capacity purpose built for AI training workloads, selling to hyperscalers and AI companies. The company exists because of AI compute demand, making it a pure play on the data center buildout.

8MBLYMobileye Global95Pure Play$6.82B-0.25%

Mobileye sells EyeQ vision chips and SuperVision ADAS systems to automakers, monetizing AI perception in nearly every car it touches. The company is effectively a pure play on autonomous driving adoption, with value scaling on ADAS penetration.

9PONYPony AI95Pure Play$2.96B-1.09%

Pony AI's entire business is an AI virtual driver monetized through robotaxi rides and robotruck freight in China. The thesis depends on regulatory approvals, safety records, and fleet economics, with no non-AI revenue to fall back on.

10SOUNSoundHound AI95Pure Play$2.63B-1.17%

Sells voice AI software to automakers, restaurants, and enterprises for in-car assistants, phone ordering, and customer service. It is a pure play whose entire business depends on conversational AI adoption.

11WRDWeRide95Pure Play$1.97B-1.79%

Every WeRide product is an autonomous vehicle platform running on the same AI stack, spanning robotaxis, robobuses, robosweepers, and robovans. The thesis depends on multi market commercial rollout, with the Uber partnership as the key international distribution channel.

12SERVServe Robotics95Pure Play$382.38M+2.56%

Serve Robotics builds autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, earning fees per delivery through partners like Uber Eats and 7-Eleven. The entire business is embodied AI navigation at scale, making it a pure play on autonomous last-mile delivery.

13BRCHFBrainChip Holdings95Pure Play$231.43M+8.89%

BrainChip licenses its Akida neuromorphic processor IP for ultra-low-power edge AI inference in vision, audio, and sensor applications. It is a pre-scale pure play whose entire value rests on neuromorphic edge AI achieving commercial adoption.

14HTFLHeartFlow94Pure Play$4.41B+2.38%

Revenue is entirely fees for AI generated coronary analyses; the business would not exist without its models. The thesis depends on reimbursement, guideline adoption, and clinician trust rather than AI infrastructure spending.

15KDKKodiak AI94Pure Play$658.03M-14.36%

All revenue comes from licensing and deploying the Kodiak Driver, an AI virtual driver for long haul trucks. The thesis depends on scaling driverless freight operations from a very small revenue base, which is why it sits just below the top pure plays.

16ALABAstera Labs92Pure Play$52.61B+3.30%

Astera Labs sells PCIe retimers, active cables, CXL controllers, and fabric switches that move data between GPUs, CPUs, and memory inside AI servers. Nearly all revenue comes from AI platform deployments at hyperscalers, making it effectively a pure play on cluster buildouts.

17FRMIFermi Inc92Pure Play$3.19B+0.61%

Fermi is developing the multi-gigawatt Project Matador campus in Texas, combining gas, solar, and nuclear generation with data center capacity for AI tenants. It is essentially a pre-revenue bet that powered land and campuses for AI will command premium value.

18AIC3.ai92Pure Play$1.68B-2.78%

Sells prebuilt enterprise AI applications and a development platform to energy, defense, manufacturing, and government customers. It is a pure play whose entire revenue and thesis depend on enterprise AI adoption.

19RRRichtech Robotics92Pure Play$375.92M-2.34%

Richtech builds AI service robots including the ADAM bartender robot, selling and deploying them into hospitality and commercial venues. The company has no business outside embodied AI, so the thesis rests entirely on service robot adoption and unit economics.

20SMCISuper Micro Computer90Pure Play$25.29B-3.12%

Assembles and sells GPU server racks and liquid-cooled AI clusters, largely NVIDIA-based, to data centers and AI cloud providers. AI systems are the bulk of revenue, making the business a direct play on AI capital spending.

21HSAIHesai Group90Pure Play$20.77B-2.34%

Essentially all of Hesai's revenue comes from lidar sold into AI-driven autonomy and robotics programs, from driver assistance to robotaxi fleets. It is a pure play on the perception hardware autonomous systems require, with auto pricing pressure and China concentration the main thesis risks.

22SYMSymbotic90Pure Play$12.80B-6.10%

Symbotic sells AI-powered warehouse automation systems, deploying fleets of autonomous robots for Walmart and other major retailers. The company is effectively a pure play on warehouse robotics adoption, with its value tied to deployment pace and backlog conversion.

23RXRXRecursion Pharmaceuticals90Pure Play$2.05B+8.19%

Recursion runs an AI drug discovery platform, pairing foundation models with massive automated biology datasets to industrialize target and molecule discovery, monetized through pharma partnerships and its own pipeline. The company exists as a bet that AI can decode biology, making it a pure play.

24INODInnodata90Pure Play$1.96B+0.28%

Innodata's growth is driven almost entirely by generative AI data work: training data creation, annotation, and model evaluation for a handful of hyperscale technology customers. The thesis depends on frontier model training budgets, with customer concentration among a few large AI labs as the main risk.

25ABSIAbsci Corporation90Pure Play$1.66B+4.10%

Absci uses generative AI models to design novel therapeutic antibodies, monetizing through drug creation partnerships with large pharma and its own pipeline. The company exists because of generative biology, so the thesis rests entirely on AI-designed drugs reaching the clinic.

26AMBQAmbiq Micro90Pure Play$1.58B+4.99%

Ambiq designs ultra-low-power Apollo SoCs that run AI inference on wearables and IoT devices at the network edge. The company is a pure play on on-device AI adoption, so the thesis hinges on edge inference spreading across battery-powered hardware.

27WYFIWhiteFiber90Pure Play$1.05B+6.21%

WhiteFiber exists to sell AI compute and AI data center capacity, and essentially all revenue comes from GPU cloud services and high-density colocation. The thesis depends on GPU pricing, utilization, and continued enterprise demand for AI training and inference.

28PDYNPalladyne AI90Pure Play$280.24M-1.22%

The entire company is AI autonomy software for industrial robots and defense drones; there is no hardware or legacy business left. The thesis depends on converting early deployments and defense contracts into recurring software revenue at very small scale.

29BZAIBlaize Holdings90Pure Play$91.92M+3.20%

Blaize is a pure play whose entire business exists because of AI inference demand, selling edge AI silicon, systems, and software. The company is small and financially strained, which is a real risk flag, but the thesis rests entirely on edge AI adoption in defense and industrial markets.

30CRDOCredo Technology Group88Core$33.06B+4.54%

Credo sells active electrical cables, retimers, and SerDes chips that connect GPUs and switches inside AI data centers at 800G speeds. Hyperscaler AI cluster deployments drive the vast majority of revenue, making the company close to a pure play on the buildout.

31TEMTempus AI88Core$9.40B-3.14%

Tempus sells AI-driven genomic sequencing, clinical data licensing, and therapy-matching tools to oncologists and pharma. The entire company is built on monetizing its clinical data library with AI, making the buildout thesis essentially the whole story.

32OUSTOuster88Core$2.53B+0.29%

Ouster exists to sell perception hardware and AI software into autonomy, robotics, and smart infrastructure, so nearly all revenue is autonomy linked. A slightly broader industrial and infrastructure mix keeps it just below the pure play tier.

33BBAIBigBear.ai88Core$1.34B-1.41%

Sells AI-powered decision intelligence and predictive analytics, largely to defense and government customers for logistics and security missions. Essentially all revenue is AI services, so the thesis rests on government AI contract wins.

34AEVAAeva Technologies88Core$1.03B-2.95%

Aeva's entire product line is perception for autonomous systems, a business that only exists because of AI-driven autonomy demand. Revenue is still pre-scale, so the thesis depends on automotive programs like Daimler Truck reaching production volume.

35TSSITSS88Core$266.39M-1.86%

AI rack integration is now the core of the business, with volumes tracking Dell's AI server shipments almost one for one. The score sits just under Pure Play because nearly all revenue flows through a single customer relationship, so the thesis depends on both AI server demand and Dell keeping TSS as its integration partner.

AITX sells autonomous security robots and AI monitoring devices through its RAD subsidiaries on a subscription model, replacing human guards. The business exists entirely as a bet on AI robotics displacing security labor, though it remains small and unprofitable.

37INVZInnoviz Technologies87Core$100.46M+4.66%

Innoviz earns its revenue entirely from lidar and perception software for autonomous driving and defense sensing. Small scale and financing risk temper what is otherwise near pure play exposure.

38PLTRPalantir Technologies85Core$426.88B+0.79%

Sells AIP plus its Foundry and Gotham platforms so governments and enterprises can run AI on their operational data. AIP demand is the entire growth story and the reason for the valuation, making enterprise AI adoption the thesis.

39APPAppLovin85Core$103.09B-4.21%

AppLovin's revenue comes from its AXON machine learning engine, which prices and places mobile and e-commerce ads in real time. The business is essentially a bet on its AI models outperforming rivals, making AI the thesis rather than a feature.

40CLSCelestica85Core$41.95B+0.82%

Celestica builds networking switches and AI compute hardware for hyperscalers, and that data center business is now the majority of revenue and nearly all of the growth. The thesis depends on hyperscaler capital spending staying elevated, with legacy aerospace and industrial work keeping it just short of pure play.

41VRTVertiv Holdings85Core$35.20B+3.27%

Vertiv sells power distribution, thermal management, and liquid cooling for data centers, directly into the AI capacity buildout. Order growth and the entire investment case now hinge on hyperscaler and colocation AI capex, making it one of the most direct picks-and-shovels plays.

42OKLOOklo85Core$7.07B-4.16%

Oklo is developing Aurora fast reactors aimed squarely at powering data centers, with a pipeline of nonbinding customer commitments. It is pre-revenue and priced almost entirely on AI power demand converting into signed contracts and licensed reactors.

Solaris pivoted from oilfield services to mobile gas turbine power, and the large majority of its contracted backlog now serves AI data center customers, anchored by a joint venture with an xAI affiliate powering the Colossus campus. The thesis depends on hyperscalers continuing to buy fast behind-the-meter power while grid interconnection stays slow.

44UPSTUpstart Holdings85Core$6.50B+0.93%

Upstart earns fees by originating consumer loans for bank partners using its AI credit model in place of FICO based pricing. The entire thesis is that its models price risk better than incumbents, making the business an AI pure play exposed to credit cycles.

45WULFTeraWulf85Core$2.80B+3.28%

TeraWulf converts its low-cost zero-carbon power sites into GPU hosting and AI data center capacity sold to compute customers. The investment thesis has shifted almost entirely from bitcoin mining to AI hosting contracts, making buildout demand the core driver.

46PGYPagaya Technologies85Core$1.70B-0.68%

Pagaya's entire business is machine learning underwriting: partner lenders route applications through its models and its investor network funds the approved loans. The thesis depends on consumer credit conditions and partner lending volumes, not on AI infrastructure spending.

47POETPOET Technologies85Core$1.35B+3.86%

POET sells optical engines built on its optical interposer for 800G and faster transceivers that connect AI data center clusters. Nearly all of its opportunity comes from AI interconnect bandwidth demand, so the thesis is a direct bet on the networking layer of the buildout.

48EVLVEvolv Technologies85Core$901.16M-0.60%

Evolv's screening systems only work because AI models classify sensor data to flag concealed weapons, making it a physical security AI pure play by product. The thesis depends on venue security demand rather than the compute buildout, and the company has had to remediate past SEC and accounting issues.

49SOPHSOPHiA GENETICS85Core$697.20M-3.99%

Nearly all revenue is AI analysis delivered through the SOPHiA DDM platform; the company exists to sell data driven medicine. The thesis depends on hospital adoption of decentralized genomic testing at still small commercial scale.

50CARLCarlsmed85Core$425.38M+1.23%

Every product is an AI designed personalized implant and surgical plan; there is no off the shelf line. The thesis depends on surgeon adoption and reimbursement, with monetization through implants and instruments keeping it just below the pure play tier.