2nd Annual Awards Presented by TMCnet and GenAI Today 

2026 AI Core Technology Awards

Recognizing the Technology Powering the AI Revolution

Every AI breakthrough depends on something deeper.

Behind the agents, applications, copilots, automation, and generative AI experiences transforming business is a rapidly evolving technology foundation — models, infrastructure, platforms, processors, data technologies, development tools, security solutions, and systems that make modern AI possible.

The 2026 AI Core Technology Awards, presented by TMCnet and GenAI Today, recognize the companies building that foundation.

If your technology helps organizations build, train, optimize, deploy, secure, govern, scale, or accelerate AI, this is your opportunity to earn recognition for the innovation happening behind the innovation.

What Defines an AI Core Technology Leader?

Winning solutions should demonstrate excellence in one or more of the capabilities essential to successful AI development and deployment, including:

• Performance & Acceleration – Making AI workloads faster, more efficient, or more powerful
• Model Development & Optimization – Advancing how AI models are built, trained, fine-tuned, orchestrated, and optimized
• Deployment & Scalability – Helping organizations move AI from experimentation into production and scale
• Data Intelligence – Preparing, managing, analyzing, and activating the data that fuels AI
• Infrastructure & Architecture – Providing the compute, cloud, edge, networking, storage, and systems required to support AI workloads
• Security, Governance & Responsible AI – Helping organizations deploy AI securely, responsibly, transparently, and in compliance with evolving requirements
• Business Impact – Demonstrating measurable value for developers, enterprises, partners, or customers using the technology

The Entire AI Technology Stack Is Eligible

Candidate technologies may include:

• AI Frameworks & Development Platforms
• Foundation Models & Training Platforms
• Generative AI Engines & LLM Infrastructure
• AI Agents & Agent Development Infrastructure
• GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, ASICs & AI Acceleration Hardware
• Model Orchestration & Inference Optimization
• Vector Databases & AI Data Infrastructure
• Data Management, Preparation & Preprocessing
• AI Cloud, Edge & Hybrid Deployment Platforms
• MLOps, LLMOps & Model Management
• AI Observability, Testing & Monitoring
• AI Security & Model Protection
• AI Governance, Compliance & Responsible AI
• AI Networking, Storage & Compute Infrastructure
• Developer Tools, APIs & Enabling Technologies
• And other technologies essential to building and scaling AI

Put the Technology Behind AI in the Spotlight

The AI Core Technology Awards recognize what makes those experiences possible.

Winning provides independent validation that your company isn't simply participating in the AI market—you're helping build it. You're powering it.

Use your recognition to strengthen credibility with customers and partners, differentiate your technology in an increasingly competitive market, support sales and RFP opportunities, increase traditional and AI search visibility, and showcase the engineering and innovation behind your solution.

You Build What AI Is Built On. Get Recognized for It.

The next generation of AI will depend on breakthroughs in compute, models, data, infrastructure, development, security, optimization, governance, and deployment.

If your company is solving those challenges and giving others the technology they need to turn AI ambition into real-world results, the 2026 AI Core Technology Awards were created to recognize you.

Exclusive Award Winning Benefits:

• Validation from Highly-Respected 3rd Party Source
  • Highlighted as an award winner on TMCnet, AI Agent News GenAI Today
  • Announced as an award winner via press release
• Increased Visibility on Generative AI Platforms like ChatGPT
  • Appear more prominently on ChatGPT, Gemini and other Generative AI platforms
  • AI tools value awards and other 3rd party endorsements in their results
• Positive Publicity Boost for Your Solution and Brand
  • Featured in extensive social media campaign across all TMC and TMCnet platforms
  • Provided award press kit to inform clients, prospects and media of your achievement
• Year-Round Marketing Support for Your Winning Solution
  • You get unlimited license to award logos
  • Add Award logo to all of your marketing, sales, publicity and branding efforts:
    • Website, marketing brochures, sales presentations, emails,
      trade show booth, annual report, business cards, promotional items, social media accounts, etc.
• Increased Inbound Inquiries for Your Sales Team
  • Your presence on the list of winners could be just what you need to land on more high value RFPs

Early Bird Savings Deadline: October 26 - $695 processing fee
Final Deadline: November 12 - $795 processing fee

This is a solution-level award, so please submit an individual application for each nomination.

Give Your Brand An Instant Credibility Boost – Backed by TMC’s 50 Years of Excellence

• If selected for an AI Core Technology award, your brand is front and center before TMC’s extensive and educated audience of technology professionals, decision-makers, and executives. TMCnet alone reaches in excess of 1,000,000 monthly unique visitors. And you’ll be featured prominently in articles, press releases, and announcements.
• TMCnet and its family of tech media properties have a long-standing presence in the technology media space – and are respected for our unbiased coverage of AI, IP communications, cybersecurity, telecom, IoT, cloud, and CX. Earning a TMCnet award brings a high level of industry recognition.
• Parent company TMC has been around since 1972, and our editorial team and judges are all known industry veterans. Winning an award from a recognized, expert organization boosts your credibility in the eyes of customers, partners, and competitors.

Questions? Please contact [email protected]

Thank You and Good Luck.