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AI Market Maps: Curated Intelligence from Leading VCs, Analysts, and Practitioners

July 2025

The Problem

I kept hitting the same wall — trying to track AI market developments while managing everything else. Finding current market maps meant hunting through individual VC blogs, analyst publications, and scattered Substack newsletters and Medium posts. After enough frustration, I decided to build something for the greater community: Awesome AI Market Maps, now featuring over 250 curated market maps from leading industry sources.

2025 AI Market Dynamics

The AI landscape moves differently than traditional technology sectors such as B2B SaaS, networking, or cybersecurity. We're seeing quarterly — or even weekly — pivots in VC funding patterns, technology adoption, and competitive positioning rather than annual cycles. Market maps capture these relationships visually, but accessing updated information remains a particular pain point.

Building the Repo

The approach combines automated discovery — ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Exa Websets, Liner — along with human curation for taste and relevance. This balance ensures broad coverage while filtering for actionable insights.

Organizational Framework

◦ Quarterly organization reveals a temporal market evolution

◦ 2024-2025 focus for immediate applicability

◦ Historical patterns enable emergent trend identification

Observations

We're seeing substantial analytical investment across the AI ecosystem, based on the volume and topical diversity of quality market maps being produced.

The Community

Our early users are engaged — startup founders doing competitive analysis, VC investors tracking sector evolution, and industry practitioners building products. The open model encourages collaborative intelligence while preserving individual advantages.

Looking Ahead

AI adoption patterns feel similar to the early Internet, suggesting years of multiple integration waves within business, government, and greater society ahead.

Links

AI Market Maps Repo: https://github.com/joylarkin/Awesome-AI-Market-Maps

Search the CSV file: https://github.com/joylarkin/Awesome-AI-Market-Maps/blob/main/ai_market_maps.csv

Use the MCP server: https://gitmcp.io/joylarkin/Awesome-AI-Market-Maps

Explore the Hugging Face dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/joylarkin/2025AIMarketMaps

Subscribe to real-time RSS updates: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joylarkin/Awesome-AI-Market-Maps/main/feeds/AIMarketMaps.xml

How to Contribute

Are you a market map creator? Contributions are welcome, just follow the directions on the repo.

Help spread the word, and if you find this resource useful, GitHub stars 🌟 are always appreciated!

 

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Joy Larkin is a technologist in Silicon Valley. She likes robots and is excited for Superintelligence.

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