2026 AI Breakthrough Awards Recognize Top Innovation Across Artificial Intelligence Landscape

Key Intelligence

• ■The 9th Annual AI Breakthrough Awards program honored over 20 companies and solutions for outstanding innovation across various AI categories, including data management, decision intelligence, machine learning, and robotics.
• ■Key winners included Bitdeer AI for "AI Cloud Platform of the Year," SoundHound AI as "Overall Agentic AI Company of the Year," and Markup AI as "Overall Gen-AI Company of the Year."
• ■Awards highlighted advancements in specialized AI applications, with ROC named "Facial Recognition System of the Year," Riverbed for "AIOps Platform of the Year," and RWS Language Weaver Pro for "Machine Translation Solution of the Year."
• ■Several companies received recognition for innovation in core AI areas, such as Analytics8 for data management, Edge Impulse for MLOps, and Hayden AI for computer vision.
• ■Repeat winners like Hyperscience (IDP Platform of the Year for the second consecutive year) and DryvIQ (third consecutive AI Breakthrough Award) demonstrated sustained leadership and innovation.