The labs
behind the models.

Meta's open-weights research arm — makers of Llama.

Elon Musk's frontier lab — makers of Grok.

The GPU monopolist that powers virtually every frontier model.

Google's unified AI research org — makers of Gemini and Veo.

Apple Intelligence — on-device LLMs across the Apple ecosystem.

Amazon Bedrock + Trainium — the cloud's largest AI catalog.

Answer engine — search with citations.

Enterprise RAG-first foundation models — Canada/UK base.

Mamba-based LLMs out of Tel Aviv — Jamba family.

Empathic chatbot lab — most of the team now at Microsoft.

Roleplay chatbots — most of the team licensed back to Google.

The lab behind Stable Diffusion — open-weights generative media.

Generative video for filmmakers — Gen-4 leads the field.

Generative video for the consumer side of the market.

The pre-eminent image generation product — bootstrapped.

The voice synthesis leader — TTS, voice cloning and dubbing.

Run any open-source model in the cloud as an API.

Serverless GPU compute for AI workloads.

Open-source model inference and training infrastructure.

LPU silicon for ultra-low-latency LLM inference.

Reconfigurable dataflow silicon for enterprise AI.

GPU cloud + workstations for AI engineers.

Frontend cloud + AI SDK + v0.

Wafer-scale silicon — entire model on a single chip.

Unified API for 300+ LLMs with smart routing and fallback.

Data labelling + RLHF infrastructure for frontier labs.

Data + AI platform — DBRX open-weights model.

Cloud arm of Alibaba — operators of the Qwen open-weights family.

Beijing-based lab — makers of the Kimi (K2) family.

Frontier reasoning models at a fraction of the cost.

Parent of TikTok — Doubao is China's most-used AI assistant.

China's search giant — operators of the ERNIE model family.

Kai-Fu Lee's frontier lab — makers of the Yi family.

Multimodal frontier lab — Talkie, Hailuo, abab models.

Tsinghua-incubated lab — open-weights GLM family.

Hunyuan model family + Yuanbao consumer assistant.

Frontier multimodal lab — Step-1V and Step-2.

Computer-vision lab pivoting to LLMs with SenseNova.

Ascend silicon + Pangu LLM — China's domestic AI stack.

Enterprise AI decisioning + Sage AIOS.

Face Recognition pioneer — now broader CV + LLM research.

Insurance giant — internal AI lab serving financial services.

Xiaomi's in-house AI lab — MiLM models for on-device.

Germany's sovereign-AI lab — Luminous family.

Alipay parent — internal AI lab AntFin.

Generative photo editing for e-commerce sellers.

Defense AI — autonomy software for European militaries.

The translation product preferred by professionals.

Workflow automation with native AI agent nodes.

Vibe-coding platform — generate full-stack apps from prompts.

France's frontier lab — open-weights and commercial models.

London-based ops arm of ElevenLabs.

AI video generation for enterprise L&D and marketing.

End-to-end autonomous driving with embodied AI.

Synthesia's EU ops — AI video generation for enterprise.

Applied-AI consultancy + platform serving UK government.

AI-assisted no-code app builder for SMBs.

IPU silicon — UK's homegrown AI accelerator.

AI bid-writing platform for enterprise sales teams.

GPU orchestration platform — acquired by Nvidia in 2024.

London-based core team of Stability AI.

AI training accelerators — acquired by Intel in 2019.

Decision-intelligence platform for banks and government.

Generative AI presenters and avatars from a single photo.

Licensed-data generative image models for enterprise.

AI21's research org — Mamba-architecture pioneers.

Agent-action research — team mostly absorbed by Amazon.

Source control + Copilot — the original AI coding assistant.

Speech-AI pioneer — Spark LLM family for Chinese enterprise.

The GitHub of machine learning — models, datasets, Spaces.

Frontier image models — Flux family by the Stable Diffusion alumni.

Custom chatbot builder — train on your docs.

Hugging Face's Paris office — French research and community.

Jim Keller's RISC-V AI silicon company.

AI-first drug discovery — frontier biology + ML.

Yoshua Bengio-co-founded enterprise AI lab — acquired by ServiceNow.

Safety-focused frontier lab — makers of Claude.

The lab behind ChatGPT, GPT-5.5 and Sora.

Microsoft's AI research arm — Phi small models and Azure AI.

The AI-first code editor — Cursor.