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AVAV
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Stack position
Where AVAV sits in the AI stack
L16 · AI Security
Model, data, prompt, agent, and identity security plus governance — spans the whole stack.
L17 · Enterprise AI
Copilots and workflow automation replacing part of the work, not just assisting it.
L18 · Vertical AI
AI-native products in healthcare, finance, legal, manufacturing, and other verticals.
L19 · Physical AI
Robots, autonomous vehicles, and drones: perception to actuation in the physical world.
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L19 · Physical AI
XingAI taxonomy. Filers did not assign this layer.
Map role vs this layer: Primary business sits here. Describes where the business sits, not a trade.
Why does this layer matter for AI demand?
Perception to reasoning to action, in the physical world. The chain runs sensor → camera and LiDAR → edge accelerator → model → robot OS → actuator → motor → battery, so it inherits both the AI supply chain and the industrial one.
What could change the picture here?
Actuation and battery energy density improve on hardware timelines, not software ones. The model is rarely the limiting factor here.
Uncrewed aircraft systems and autonomous defence platforms.
Same-layer companies (alphabetical, not ranked)
Cache snapshot 2026-10-20. Filing dates below are the source dates, not this snapshot.
Public 13F rows
Rows below are public SEC Form 13F-HR filings, reported by the filing entity for the period shown and filed later — they are never current holdings. Form 13F covers long US equity positions only: it excludes short positions, cash, non-US holdings and most derivatives, and a reported position may have been sold since. Assigning a ticker to a layer is XingAI's classification, not the filer's. Nothing here is a recommendation, and an institution reporting a position is not a reason to take one.
ARK Investment Management
Period 2026-06-30 · filed 2026-08-14
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1697748/000110465926096910/primary_doc.xmlhttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1697748/000110465926096910/infotable.xmlFundstrat Capital
Period 2026-06-30 · filed 2026-08-13
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600064/000200032426003371/primary_doc.xmlhttps://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600064/000200032426003371/information_table.xml
What this page does not answer
Valuation, a target price, and when to buy or sell. Those are not in the cache, and this page will not guess them.
Research questions
- Which layer is this company's primary business in, on XingAI's taxonomy?
- Which public Form 13F-HR rows cite this ticker, and when were they filed?
- Who else in the same layer is listed, alphabetically — not ranked?