Top 10 US Tech Giants by Market Capitalization 2026

Microsoft's $13B investment in OpenAI transformed it from a legacy enterprise software company into the dominant player in AI infrastructure, with Azure AI services growing 60%+ year-over-year in 2025. The company crossed $3 trillion in market cap in early 2024 — neck-and-neck with Apple — driven by Copilot integration across its 1.4 billion Microsoft 365 users. CEO Satya Nadella's journey is detailed in his bestselling memoir 'Hit Refresh', which chronicles how he rebuilt Microsoft's culture after years of stagnation. Annual revenue surpassed $245B in fiscal 2025.

NVIDIA's transformation from a gaming GPU maker to the backbone of global AI infrastructure is the most spectacular corporate reinvention of the 2020s — its market cap surged from $300B in 2022 to nearly $3 trillion by mid-2024. The H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs power over 80% of all large-scale AI model training worldwide, with a single H100 cluster costing $500M+. NVIDIA posted $130B in revenue in fiscal 2026, a 5x increase in just three years. CEO Jensen Huang has been profiled in every major business publication and featured in the Bloomberg documentary 'AI: Race to Dominate'.

Alphabet's Google remains the world's most powerful information gateway, controlling approximately 91% of global search market share and generating over $350B in total annual revenue in 2025. Google Cloud accelerated to $47B in annual revenue driven by Gemini AI integrations across GCP services, and YouTube contributes over $50B annually to Alphabet's top line. The existential threat from OpenAI-powered Bing prompted the fastest product pivot in Google's history, culminating in the Gemini Ultra model launch. Google DeepMind's AlphaFold protein folding breakthrough was recognized with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) drives the majority of Amazon's profitability with $107B in annual revenue and 31% global cloud infrastructure market share, effectively subsidizing the world's largest e-commerce operation. The company's AI bet — including $4B invested in Anthropic — positions it as both a cloud infrastructure provider and an AI model distributor through the Amazon Bedrock platform. Amazon's logistics network spans over 1,600 fulfillment centers globally and employs 1.5 million people, making it one of the world's largest private employers. The story of AWS's origin in Jeff Bezos's garage is covered extensively in Brad Stone's 'The Everything Store'.

Meta's 'Year of Efficiency' in 2023 slashed 21,000 jobs and revived investor confidence, with the stock rising 200% to reclaim a $1.5 trillion market cap by 2025. The company's family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads — now reaches 3.3 billion daily active users, the largest connected audience in human history. Meta AI, built on the open-source Llama model family, became one of the world's most widely used AI assistants in 2025, integrated across all Meta surfaces. The company is spending $50B+ annually on AI infrastructure and the metaverse bet through Reality Labs remains long-term and loss-making at $16B/year.

Tesla redefined what it means to be a car company — it has more in common with a Silicon Valley software firm than Detroit's Big Three, and its market cap of $1.2 trillion reflects that. The company's Full Self-Driving (FSD) software has accumulated over 1.5 billion miles of training data, making Tesla's AI fleet the world's largest real-world robotics training program. Its four Gigafactories produce over 1.8 million vehicles annually, and the Energy division (Powerwall, Megapack) now generates $10B+ per year. Elon Musk's vision for Tesla is detailed in Ashlee Vance's 2015 biography 'Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future'.

Broadcom's $61B acquisition of VMware in 2023 vaulted it into the elite tier of enterprise technology, adding cloud virtualization to its already dominant semiconductor and networking portfolio. The company now generates $50B+ in annual revenue with an operating margin exceeding 60%, making it one of the most profitable technology businesses on earth. Its custom AI chips (XPUs) are deployed inside Google and Meta's hyperscale data centers, directly competing with NVIDIA for the AI acceleration market. Hock Tan's strategy of acquiring and optimizing enterprise software assets has made Broadcom a $800B+ market-cap powerhouse.

Oracle's cloud transformation under Larry Ellison has been the enterprise tech story of the decade — from a legacy database company to a $500B AI infrastructure provider. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is now the cloud of choice for AI training workloads due to its superior networking performance, winning contracts with OpenAI, Microsoft, and sovereign governments. The company hosts a 400,000-GPU AI cluster for OpenAI, one of the largest in the world. Oracle's database business, which generates $15B annually, remains the gold standard for mission-critical enterprise applications at Fortune 500 companies. Fiscal 2026 revenue surpassed $58B.

Salesforce pioneered cloud CRM in 1999 and now commands over 23% of the global CRM market with $37B in annual revenue, serving 150,000+ businesses worldwide. Its Agentforce platform, launched in 2024, enables businesses to deploy autonomous AI agents across sales, service, and marketing workflows — attracting 1,000+ enterprise customers within its first quarter. The iconic Salesforce Tower in San Francisco (1,070 feet, tallest building in the city) has become a tech-industry landmark. Marc Benioff's strategy of tying corporate success to social impact is detailed in his book 'Trailblazer' and the company is consistently ranked in Fortune's Best Places to Work.

Microsoft's $13B investment in OpenAI transformed it from a legacy enterprise software company into the dominant player in AI infrastructure, with Azure AI services growing 60%+ year-over-year in 2025. The company crossed $3 trillion in market cap in early 2024 — neck-and-neck with Apple — driven by Copilot integration across its 1.4 billion Microsoft 365 users. CEO Satya Nadella's journey is detailed in his bestselling memoir 'Hit Refresh', which chronicles how he rebuilt Microsoft's culture after years of stagnation. Annual revenue surpassed $245B in fiscal 2025.

NVIDIA's transformation from a gaming GPU maker to the backbone of global AI infrastructure is the most spectacular corporate reinvention of the 2020s — its market cap surged from $300B in 2022 to nearly $3 trillion by mid-2024. The H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs power over 80% of all large-scale AI model training worldwide, with a single H100 cluster costing $500M+. NVIDIA posted $130B in revenue in fiscal 2026, a 5x increase in just three years. CEO Jensen Huang has been profiled in every major business publication and featured in the Bloomberg documentary 'AI: Race to Dominate'.

Alphabet's Google remains the world's most powerful information gateway, controlling approximately 91% of global search market share and generating over $350B in total annual revenue in 2025. Google Cloud accelerated to $47B in annual revenue driven by Gemini AI integrations across GCP services, and YouTube contributes over $50B annually to Alphabet's top line. The existential threat from OpenAI-powered Bing prompted the fastest product pivot in Google's history, culminating in the Gemini Ultra model launch. Google DeepMind's AlphaFold protein folding breakthrough was recognized with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) drives the majority of Amazon's profitability with $107B in annual revenue and 31% global cloud infrastructure market share, effectively subsidizing the world's largest e-commerce operation. The company's AI bet — including $4B invested in Anthropic — positions it as both a cloud infrastructure provider and an AI model distributor through the Amazon Bedrock platform. Amazon's logistics network spans over 1,600 fulfillment centers globally and employs 1.5 million people, making it one of the world's largest private employers. The story of AWS's origin in Jeff Bezos's garage is covered extensively in Brad Stone's 'The Everything Store'.

Meta's 'Year of Efficiency' in 2023 slashed 21,000 jobs and revived investor confidence, with the stock rising 200% to reclaim a $1.5 trillion market cap by 2025. The company's family of apps — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads — now reaches 3.3 billion daily active users, the largest connected audience in human history. Meta AI, built on the open-source Llama model family, became one of the world's most widely used AI assistants in 2025, integrated across all Meta surfaces. The company is spending $50B+ annually on AI infrastructure and the metaverse bet through Reality Labs remains long-term and loss-making at $16B/year.

Tesla redefined what it means to be a car company — it has more in common with a Silicon Valley software firm than Detroit's Big Three, and its market cap of $1.2 trillion reflects that. The company's Full Self-Driving (FSD) software has accumulated over 1.5 billion miles of training data, making Tesla's AI fleet the world's largest real-world robotics training program. Its four Gigafactories produce over 1.8 million vehicles annually, and the Energy division (Powerwall, Megapack) now generates $10B+ per year. Elon Musk's vision for Tesla is detailed in Ashlee Vance's 2015 biography 'Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future'.

Broadcom's $61B acquisition of VMware in 2023 vaulted it into the elite tier of enterprise technology, adding cloud virtualization to its already dominant semiconductor and networking portfolio. The company now generates $50B+ in annual revenue with an operating margin exceeding 60%, making it one of the most profitable technology businesses on earth. Its custom AI chips (XPUs) are deployed inside Google and Meta's hyperscale data centers, directly competing with NVIDIA for the AI acceleration market. Hock Tan's strategy of acquiring and optimizing enterprise software assets has made Broadcom a $800B+ market-cap powerhouse.

Oracle's cloud transformation under Larry Ellison has been the enterprise tech story of the decade — from a legacy database company to a $500B AI infrastructure provider. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is now the cloud of choice for AI training workloads due to its superior networking performance, winning contracts with OpenAI, Microsoft, and sovereign governments. The company hosts a 400,000-GPU AI cluster for OpenAI, one of the largest in the world. Oracle's database business, which generates $15B annually, remains the gold standard for mission-critical enterprise applications at Fortune 500 companies. Fiscal 2026 revenue surpassed $58B.

Salesforce pioneered cloud CRM in 1999 and now commands over 23% of the global CRM market with $37B in annual revenue, serving 150,000+ businesses worldwide. Its Agentforce platform, launched in 2024, enables businesses to deploy autonomous AI agents across sales, service, and marketing workflows — attracting 1,000+ enterprise customers within its first quarter. The iconic Salesforce Tower in San Francisco (1,070 feet, tallest building in the city) has become a tech-industry landmark. Marc Benioff's strategy of tying corporate success to social impact is detailed in his book 'Trailblazer' and the company is consistently ranked in Fortune's Best Places to Work.