World Models (Global)

Scores are set in steps of 5 against the anchors above and are never adjusted to tidy the chart. A score between two anchors says in its reasoning which anchor the company meets and what lifts it above that anchor or holds it below the next. Only what has shipped is scored, including invite-only betas and research previews; features that are only announced are mentioned but not scored. Companies with identical scores are drawn side by side around their shared point. Every change to a published score is logged below with its reason.

Bubble size follows the selected financial figure on a compressed scale: a bubble's width grows with the fourth root of the figure, from the smallest size at $10M to the largest at the biggest figure on this map. Where that biggest figure is around $10B, as for valuations on most maps, each tenfold step makes a bubble about two and a half to three times larger in area, so a $10B company reads about three times the size of a $1B one rather than ten times; where it is smaller, as for funding on the smaller maps, each step is larger. The scale is fixed across filters. A figure marked with a plus, such as $50M+, is a lower bound: at least that much, with the full amount higher or not itemised. Post-money valuation and cumulative funding are separate measures. Hollow circles mark an unknown figure, one that has not been disclosed, not zero. Figures of $10M or less are drawn at the minimum size, never smaller than a hollow mark. Exact values are in each tooltip, the list and every profile.

Round dates are the day a round was announced. Where it closed on a different day, or was never announced, the profile note says so.

Estimates and rumored figures say so wherever they appear. Every company profile says whether a figure was reported, estimated or entered manually; manual values have no public source. A funding total whose source has not been recorded yet says so on the company profile. Platform products have no standalone company valuation; their parent’s value is excluded. Acquisition prices and historical valuations are not interchangeable. An acquired company keeps its circle inside a thin ring; its figure is the acquisition price when that was disclosed, otherwise its last private valuation, and its hover card says which.

Across every map, an independent company qualifies only with disclosed outside funding or material traction: reported revenue, users or units shipped. Products inside larger companies are shown as platform products and qualify on the criteria alone.

Focus categories are editorial groupings based on the descriptions in this dataset. Some products span several groups; each appears once under its primary focus. The dataset also retains adjacent and acquired products for comparison.

The news feed lists published coverage only. Pages visited to verify a fact are kept separately, in each profile’s verification log.