Amazon, Intel and Google are among the leading companies in the artificial intelligence (AI) theme, according to the latest Thematic Scorecard for the application software sector from GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

All three companies gained the highest Thematic score (5 out of 5) for the AI theme in GlobalData’s Thematic Scorecard for the application software sector. A Thematic score of 5 out of 5 indicates that the companies’ competitive position in this theme will significantly improve their future performance.

Also identified as dominant players in this theme are iFlytek, Apple, Nvidia, and Nuance Communications.

On their tail, with scores of 4 out of 5, are Splunk, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Autodesk, Broadcom, Baidu, Huawei, Cloudera, Adobe and Facebook.

GlobalData’s Thematic Scorecard ranks companies within a sector on the basis of overall leadership in the 10 themes that matter most to their industry, generating a leading indicator of future performance.