Web Summit A–Z: Mapping the AI Ecosystem for RankmyAI
Written by David Kakanis
Web Summit 2025 felt like walking through a live A–Z of the AI ecosystem. Below is that alphabet, with a short description of each company and how it connects to what we’re building at RankmyAI: a structured, independent map of the global AI tooling landscape.
A – Amazon Robotics, Arago, Armin van Buuren & Arcade (tryarcade.co)
Amazon Robotics – Amazon’s warehouse division that has deployed more than a million robots to automate fulfilment and logistics, pairing humans with AI-driven mechatronics at massive scale.
Arago – Enterprise automation company behind HIRO, a general problem-solving AI that learns to automate complex IT and business processes such as SAP operations.
Armin van Buuren –
Arcade (tryarcade.co) – An AI-native game and 3D creation platform that turns ideas into interactive experiences with agentic workflows.
B – Bertix.ai
Bertix.ai – An “autonomous customer operations platform” that deploys real-time AI operators to handle calls, meetings and web workflows end-to-end, not just as a copilot but as a fully executing agent.
In our taxonomy this sits squarely in ….. , a fast-growing cluster where we track call quality, automation depth and customer outcomes.
C – Cerebras Systems & Clio
Cerebras Systems – Builder of wafer-scale AI chips (WSE-3) designed to train frontier models on a single giant device or across clusters, doubling performance generation over generation.
Clio – Cloud-based legal AI platform for case management, billing and increasingly AI-driven research, now a multi-billion-dollar player redefining “AI for law”.
These are infrastructure and vertical-AI anchors in our rankings: Cerebras at the compute layer, Clio as a dominant legal stack that many smaller legal AI tools must integrate or compete with.
D – Datadog
Datadog – Observability platform adding AI-assisted monitoring, anomaly detection and incident workflows on top of cloud metrics and logs.
We see Datadog as part of the AIOps backbone—tools that quietly make other AI systems reliable, and that shows up in our rankings through developer adoption and integration networks.
E – Epidemic Sound
Epidemic Sound – The highest ranking tool in our database on the Web Summit - Music licensing platform that now offers AI tools like Adapt and Studio to reshape licensed tracks and auto-soundtrack creator videos while keeping rights and artist compensation intact.
It’s a good example of a non-AI native company becoming an AI leader, and in RankmyAI we treat these “AI-augmented incumbents” differently from early-stage pure-AI startups.
F – Foundever
Foundever – Global CX company using conversational and generative AI to power chatbots, voicebots, analytics and orchestration for billions of customer interactions.
G – Granter
Granter.ai – The winner of the Startup Pitch Web Summit Awards - An AI-powered grant funding platform that matches startups and SMEs with relevant grants and helps draft and manage applications with an “AI grant consultant”.
In RankmyAI’s “funding & deal flow” category, Granter is a clear example of AI eating niche but painful workflows—exactly the type of tool policymakers and economic-development agencies are interested in.
H – “HunkmyHR” (RankmyAI) & Hurree
“HunkmyHR” – Our own RankmyAI was mis-introduced on stage under this name. We’re building an independent ranking engine for 56,000+ AI tools so people don’t have to guess which tools are “hunks” and which are hype.
Hurree – An AI-powered reporting and performance dashboard where an agent called Riva scans data, surfaces patterns and generates real-time insights for marketing and business teams.
I – IBM & IonQ
IBM – Uses its watsonx platform to power sports and entertainment analytics, from Wimbledon and the US Open to interactive match insights and fan-facing chatbots.
IonQ – A leader in trapped-ion quantum computing whose systems are accessible via major clouds and are being scaled through acquisitions and hardware miniaturisation.
In our view these are frontier-stack players: IBM bridging AI with data-heavy industries, IonQ pointing to what the post-GPU era may look like for AI workloads.
J – (Still open)
J – We didn’t pin a standout “J” this time at the Web Summit 2025.
K – Kalimera.ai
Kalimera.ai – Voice-first AI agent platform with dial-plan integration, letting businesses route calls directly to AI agents that leverage internal knowledge bases and KPIs.
This belongs in our AI contact-center & voice automation category, where we compare tools on latency, control over data and integration depth.
L – laria.ai & Lovable
laria.ai – AI tool turning scripts into UGC-style vertical video ads with avatars, music, captions and B-roll, aimed at performance marketers on TikTok, Instagram and Meta.
Lovable – AI-powered full-stack app builder (formerly GPT Engineer) that turns natural-language prompts into production-ready web apps, then lets users refine code or visuals in one environment.
These sit in AI for growth (creative ads) and AI for software creation, two of the most searched categories on RankmyAI as companies try to go from idea to campaign to product faster.
M – Mediri & Medhi
Mediri (Mediriai.com) – German medical-imaging company using AI for quality assurance and analysis in clinical studies, especially MRI and other complex imaging data.
Medhi – An AI-powered learning tool for medical students that audits their knowledge and highlights “confidently wrong” topics before exams—functioning as a kind of clinical study copilot.
RankmyAI groups these under health & med-AI, where reliability, regulation and data provenance weigh more heavily in our ranking logic than, say, growth hacks.
N – Neo4j
Neo4j – The leading graph database and knowledge-graph platform powering connected data and explainable AI applications for hundreds of large enterprises.
In our stack view, Neo4j is core data infrastructure for AI, and we track it as a “knowledge graphs” that many smaller AI tools integrate with.
O – Ookla
Ookla – Company behind Speedtest and network-intelligence products, providing granular connectivity data to telcos, regulators and enterprises worldwide.
Connectivity quality shapes how well cloud-based AI tools perform; with recent outages of claude and chatgpt it becomes important to have a downdetector.
P – PlluM & Plaud.ai
PlluM – A Polish large language model initiative focused on local language and sovereignty—representing the wave of country- and region-specific LLMs.
Plaud.ai – An AI-powered meeting recorder and transcription assistant that captures conversations and turns them into structured notes and action items.
Q – Qualcomm
Qualcomm – Through Snapdragon, it’s pushing AI to the edge with NPUs and custom CPUs that run multiple on-device models concurrently, powering phones, PCs and industrial hardware.
In RankmyAI’s world, Qualcomm is a chip-layer enabler that shapes what is possible for thousands of edge-AI tools in our database. (Insert
R – Rovo, Replit & Rombo.ai
Rovo (Atlassian) – Atlassian’s AI work assistant that sits across Jira, Confluence and more, helping teams search, summarise and automate workflows.
Replit – Browser-based, AI-powered development platform that turns natural-language ideas into runnable code and apps, with hosting and collaboration built in.
Rombo.ai – Early-stage AI startup we encountered in the startup booths, showing how many niche, specialised tools are emerging below the headline names.
S – Squirrel.ai & Scope AI
Squirrel.ai – Chinese edtech company offering a large adaptive learning system that adjusts curricula in real time to each student’s gaps and pace.
Scope AI – Product-focused AI that turns customer conversations and feedback into structured insights for product teams.
These live in education AI and product insight AI in our taxonomy—both verticals where outcomes (learning gains, roadmap impact) matter more than raw model specs.
T – Toptal
Toptal – A curated network of the top freelance talent in tech, design, finance and product, increasingly intersecting with AI projects on both client and expert sides.
U – Unitree
Unitree – Robotics company building consumer and research-grade quadruped “robot dogs” like the Go1, with onboard perception and AI for navigation and interaction.
For RankmyAI, Unitree sits in embodied AI & robotics, where the boundary between “tool” and “machine” starts to blur.
V – VTEX
VTEX – Enterprise digital commerce platform with composable architecture and AI-driven commerce capabilities for large retailers and brands.
It exemplifies commerce platforms embedding AI everywhere (search, pricing, merchandising), a pattern we capture in our retail & e-commerce AI cluster.
W – WWW
WWW (World Wide Web) – At Web Summit, Tim Berners-Lee’s presence and talks about “making the web better” underscored that AI is being layered onto an infrastructure originally built for openness, privacy and interoperability.
RankmyAI is, in a sense, a curation layer on top of the WWW—organising the chaos of AI tools into something navigable and trustworthy again.
X – Another open slot in our alphabet, symbolising new categories (agent platforms, safety tools, evaluation frameworks) that may dominate the next edition of this list.
Y – Yet-to-be-discovered players; given how fast AI tooling moves, we fully expect “Y” to be occupied in our internal rankings long before the next Web Summit.
Z – Zencoder
Zencoder – Brightcove’s cloud video-encoding API that turns raw video into streaming-ready formats at scale, long before “AI video” was fashionable.
Zencoder is a reminder that APIs are the original “AI tools” pattern—stateless, scalable and easy to integrate—an architectural pattern RankmyAI explicitly scores when comparing modern AI video and media tools.
In short: this A–Z from Web Summit shows just how broad “AI tools” really are—from chips and quantum hardware to meeting recorders, legal platforms, UGC ad makers and robotics.
RankmyAI’s mission is to turn that sprawl into structured, comparable insight so that governments, investors and businesses can quickly find the tools that actually fit their needs.
