H2O.ai Recognized on CRN’s 2025 AI 100 List for Second Consecutive Year

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--H2O.ai, the world’s leading agentic AI, today announced that it was honored by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, with a spot on the 2025 AI 100 list. The prestigious annual ranking highlights the most innovative companies leading the charge in artificial intelligence. This marks the second year in a row that H2O.ai has been honored, reinforcing its leadership in enterprise AI grounded in deep research, open-source innovation, and secure data infrastructure.

Curated by CRN editors, the AI 100 list recognizes companies with breakthrough technologies and go-to-market strategies that are enabling real-world adoption of AI. H2O.ai’s continued inclusion on this list affirms its status as a top-tier AI innovator and trusted partner to enterprises navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of machine learning and generative technologies.

“This recognition is a tribute to our incredible community of H2O.ai customers, makers, and innovators driving the frontier of agentic AI,” said Sri Ambati, CEO and Founder of H2O.ai. “We’re bringing open-source innovation to the enterprise—securely in the cloud or on-prem—to power the most confidential, mission-critical data workflows. H2O.ai keeps customers on the efficiency frontier of AI, where performance, security, and scale meet. The world’s most accurate deep research doesn’t have to be expensive.”

H2O.ai has emerged as a go-to partner for enterprises looking to integrate AI into critical workflows. The company’s flagship platform, H2O AI Cloud, provides a unified environment for building, deploying, and managing machine learning and generative AI models. Other core offerings, such as the enterprise-ready h2oGPTe and Driverless AI, enable data scientists and business users to collaborate and create high-performing AI solutions faster and more securely.

As enterprises look to harness generative and agentic AI responsibly, H2O.ai continues to lead with a focus on transparency, innovation, and open-source collaboration. H2O’s h2oGPTe Agent recently claimed the #1 spot on the prestigious GAIA (General AI Assistants) benchmark with an impressive 75% accuracy rate – setting a world record and beating competitors like OpenAI and Manus in terms of accuracy. The company’s global community of more than 2 million data scientists continues to grow, and its co-creation model with customers is setting the standard for how impactful AI solutions are built and deployed.

To view the full CRN AI 100 list, visit: https://www.crn.com

For more information about H2O.ai and its AI solutions, please visit https://h2o.ai.

About H2O.ai

Founded in 2012, H2O.ai is on a mission to democratize AI. As the world’s leading agentic AI company, H2O.ai converges Generative and Predictive AI to help enterprises and public sector agencies develop purpose-built GenAI applications on their private data. Trusted by 20,000+ global organizations, and over half of the Fortune 500, H2O.ai powers AI transformation for companies like AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Singtel, Chipotle, Workday, Progressive Insurance, and NIH.

H2O.ai partners include Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), NVIDIA, Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. H2O.ai’s AI for Good program supports nonprofit groups, foundations, and communities in advancing education, healthcare, and environmental conservation. With a vibrant community of 2 million data scientists worldwide, H2O.ai aims to co-create valuable AI applications for all users.

H2O.ai has raised $256 million from investors, including Commonwealth Bank, NVIDIA, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Nexus Ventures and New York Life.