AI & Machine Learning: Q4 2025 vs Q3 2025

Period-over-period comparison of ai & machine learning startup engineering acceleration. How has the sector's engineering momentum changed between Q3 2025 and Q4 2025?

Startups (Q4 2025)

Startups (Q3 2025)

Avg Velocity (now)

183

Velocity Trend

-13%

Top 5 by Period

Q4 2025

1.huggingface+67%

2.ROCm+43%

3.roboflow+12%

4.openvinotoolkit+6%

5.netdata+5%

Q3 2025

1.harvard-edge+713%

2.ray-project+34%

3.mlflow+21%

4.nautechsystems+15%

5.inception-project+15%

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