AI Report Norway 2026: a fuller map of Norway's AI builders
Norway's AI sector keeps growing, but knowing who is actually building AI — rather than simply talking about it — has remained hard to pin down.
The AI Report Norway 2026 is the second, and by far the most comprehensive, data-driven overview of the companies developing AI-powered products and solutions in Norway.
Read the full report on the Norwegian AI landscape here
The 2026 edition analyses 692 Norwegian AI tools and companies, nearly twice as many as the 2025 edition. The increase mainly reflects a more intensive search for AI tools and companies rather than a doubling of the Norwegian AI landscape itself — which means this year's picture is both broader and more representative. For the first time, the report also examines investment: publicly reported funding from Crunchbase alongside financial support from Innovation Norway.
The report is produced by RankmyAI in close cooperation with the Digital Innovation for sustainable Growth (DIG) research centre at NHH, the SNF Centre for Applied Research at NHH, and Abelia.
What's new in this edition?
- Almost twice the coverage — 692 AI tools and companies, up from 351 in the 2025 edition.
- A first look at money — USD 5.33 billion in publicly reported funding, plus USD 344 million in Innovation Norway support since 2013.
- Three years of web traffic — quarterly traffic development from 2023 to mid-2026, and the 25 fastest-growing Norwegian AI tools.
- An expanded Top 250 ranking, combining website traffic, investment, and user reviews.
Norwegian AI is a business-to-business story
The single clearest characteristic of the Norwegian AI landscape is who it sells to. 96% of Norwegian AI tools and companies target professionals, developers, or organisations, against 10% targeting consumers and 7% targeting government. Two thirds (66%) sell standardised products rather than project-based services, with a further 25% combining the two — an ecosystem building scalable, exportable technology rather than only local consultancy.
This B2B orientation runs through almost every domain. Agriculture, Aquaculture & Food, Manufacturing & Industry, Logistics & Supply Chain, Data Science & Analytics, Transportation & Mobility, and AI Infrastructure consist almost entirely of tools built for business users. Consumer-facing AI appears mainly in Education & Learning, Healthcare, Media & Content Creation, and Sports & Fitness — and even there it is a minority.
it builds on the industries Norway is already good at
Unsurprisingly, Norwegian AI clusters where Norway already has an established international position: the ocean economy, energy, shipping and logistics, and health. Consultancy & Tool Development is the largest single domain (14.5%), followed by Healthcare & Life Sciences (7.2%), Productivity & Collaboration (6.9%), Agriculture, Aquaculture & Food (6.1%), and Manufacturing & Industry, Energy & Utilities, and Data Science & Analytics (5.3% each). Together these seven domains account for more than half of the entire landscape.
By contrast, Norway is relatively thin in Marketing & Advertising, Customer Service & CRM, Media & Content Creation, Design & Creative Tools, and Writing & Language. The Norwegian profile is one of applied AI for established industries — prediction, optimisation, analytics, and operational support — rather than consumer-facing generative AI. AI is being layered onto existing industrial strength, not built in isolation from it.