AI deal map

AI Deal Map: Who's Partnering, Investing, and Acquiring

A living market map of AI partnerships, investments, and acquisitions from the last 45 days of news — grounded against the deployments in our use-case catalog. Rebuilt nightly from our AI-news stream, never hand-curated.

Data as of
Aug 25, 2026
Dataset revision
dsr-d2824fe839d09681
Canonical record count
3,811
Organizations

25

Deals

14

Deals this week

12

Hubs

7-day deal brief

Deals this week

12 relationships reported in the latest 7 days, newest first.

Partnership9Investment1Acquisition2

Deals across the AI market

The map

Edge color = deal type · thickness = news volume · boxed nodes are hubs (3+ deals)

Broadcom is the most connected organization with 2 AI deals; the map tracks 14 relationships among 25 organizations over the last 45 days.

BroadcomIBMOpenAIOpenRouterStripeCursorSpaceXAlibabaAMDApolloAppleAWSBlackstone
PartnershipInvestmentAcquisitionMixedHub (3+ deals)New since last snapshotEdge thickness = news volume
ⓘ How this is measured

Every item in our continuously monitored AI-news stream is read by an LLM classifier that extracts explicit deals between two named organizations — a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition — as stated in the article. A deal is only recorded when the item actually asserts it; two companies merely mentioned together never create an edge. Deals are aggregated over a 45-day window into this map: each edge is one relationship, colored by its dominant type and thickened by how many news items evidence it; an edge carrying more than one type (e.g. a partnership that is also an investment) shows as “mixed.” Organizations that anchor at least 3 deals are drawn as boxed hubs.

Each deal is also connected to the use-case catalog: the news items behind it are linked to published deployment cases by embedding similarity, so a relationship can be cross-checked against publicly documented deployments — the “linked cases” count. Snapshots are kept per day, so newly detected deals are flagged (dashed edges) and the map builds its own history. Select any organization to see its deals, or any edge to see the headlines and deployment cases behind it.

Sources we monitor

  • Reddit – r/LocalLLaMACommunity
  • Reddit – r/artificialCommunity
  • ZDNET – AIPress
  • TechCrunch – AIPress
  • The Verge – AIPress
  • Reddit – r/MachineLearningCommunity
  • AWS Machine Learning BlogVendor blog
  • Web – RAG in productionWeb search
  • Ars Technica – AIPress
  • Hacker News – LLMCommunity
  • Web – enterprise AI agentsWeb search
  • Watchlist - forward deployed engineer (FDE)Web search
  • Watchlist - Hypervelocity EngineeringWeb search
  • Watchlist - self-improving agentsWeb search
  • Google Cloud – AI & MLVendor blog
  • Watchlist - loop engineeringWeb search
  • Watchlist - ai securityWeb search
  • Hugging Face BlogVendor blog
  • Watchlist - ai governanceWeb search
  • The AI Daily BriefPress
  • MIT Technology Review – AIPress
  • Hacker News – AI agentsCommunity
  • The Register – AI/MLPress
  • Google – The Keyword (AI)Vendor blog
  • One Useful Thing - Ethan MollickPress
  • VentureBeat – AIPress
  • Watchlist - self-reinforcing agent-loopsWeb search
  • Microsoft AI BlogVendor blog

Broadcom

Partnership

2 deals with 2 organizations

Funding signal

Recent AI funding

Investment deals detected in the last 45 days of AI news, newest first · amounts only where the source states them.

Extracted from explicitly stated deals in the news stream — this is a signal ledger, not a funding database. Where an investee also appears in our deployment catalog, its cases are linked above; most freshly funded startups have none yet, which is itself the finding.

Every deal

All relationships, ranked

OrganizationCounterpartyTypeNews (45d)Last 14dLinked cases
OpenRouterStripeAcquisition449
CursorSpaceXAcquisition229
AlibabaApplePartnership110
AMDNutanixPartnership110
ApolloBroadcomPartnership110
AWSPanasonic AvionicsPartnership110
BlackstoneBroadcomPartnership110
CloverleafNvidiaPartnership113
CodeAIOpenAIPartnership110
EtchedJane StreetInvestment115
ExaMozillaPartnership115
GitHubMicrosoftPartnership110
IBMOpenAIPartnership110
IBMUSTAPartnership110