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Department · Cartography43 companies

The labs
behind the models.

Every flagship AI company, indexed by origin, type and traction. Filter by region, narrow to research labs or hardware, or browse the curated lineup country by country.

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Meta AI

USA

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

LabEst. 2013Menlo ParkFlagship

xAI

USA

Elon Musk's frontier lab — makers of Grok.

LabEst. 2023Palo AltoFlagship

Nvidia

USA

The GPU monopolist that powers virtually every frontier model.

HardwareEst. 1993Santa ClaraFlagship

Google DeepMind

USA

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

LabEst. 2010London / Mountain ViewFlagship

Amazon (AWS)

USA

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

PlatformEst. 1994SeattleFlagship

Perplexity

USA

Answer engine — search with citations.

ProductEst. 2022San FranciscoFlagship

Cohere

Canada

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

LabEst. 2019TorontoFlagship

AI21 Labs

Israel

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

LabEst. 2017Tel AvivFlagship

Stability AI

UK

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

LabEst. 2020LondonFlagship

Runway

USA

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

ProductEst. 2018New YorkFlagship

Midjourney

USA

The pre-eminent image generation product — bootstrapped.

ProductEst. 2021San FranciscoFlagship

ElevenLabs

USA

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

ProductEst. 2022New York / LondonFlagship

Together AI

USA

Open-source model inference and training infrastructure.

InfraEst. 2022San FranciscoFlagship

Groq

USA

LPU silicon for ultra-low-latency LLM inference.

HardwareEst. 2016Mountain ViewFlagship

Vercel

USA

Frontend cloud + AI SDK + v0.

PlatformEst. 2015San FranciscoFlagship

OpenRouter

USA

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

InfraEst. 2023San FranciscoFlagship

Scale AI

USA

Data labelling + RLHF infrastructure for frontier labs.

InfraEst. 2016San FranciscoFlagship

Databricks

USA

Data + AI platform — DBRX open-weights model.

PlatformEst. 2013San FranciscoFlagship

Alibaba Cloud

China

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

PlatformEst. 2009HangzhouFlagship

Moonshot AI

China

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

LabEst. 2023BeijingFlagship

DeepSeek

China

Frontier reasoning models at a fraction of the cost.

LabEst. 2023HangzhouFlagship

ByteDance

China

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

ProductEst. 2012BeijingFlagship

Baidu

China

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

ProductEst. 2000BeijingFlagship

01.AI

China

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

LabEst. 2023BeijingFlagship

MiniMax

China

Multimodal frontier lab — Talkie, Hailuo, abab models.

LabEst. 2021ShanghaiFlagship

Zhipu AI

China

Tsinghua-incubated lab — open-weights GLM family.

LabEst. 2019BeijingFlagship

Tencent

China

Hunyuan model family + Yuanbao consumer assistant.

ProductEst. 1998ShenzhenFlagship

Huawei

China

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

HardwareEst. 1987ShenzhenFlagship

Aleph Alpha

Europe

Germany's sovereign-AI lab — Luminous family.

LabEst. 2019HeidelbergFlagship

Helsing

Europe

Defense AI — autonomy software for European militaries.

ResearchEst. 2021MunichFlagship

DeepL

Europe

The translation product preferred by professionals.

ProductEst. 2017CologneFlagship

Lovable

Europe

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

ProductEst. 2023StockholmFlagship

Mistral AI

Europe

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

LabEst. 2023ParisFlagship

Synthesia

UK

AI video generation for enterprise L&D and marketing.

ProductEst. 2017LondonFlagship

Wayve

UK

End-to-end autonomous driving with embodied AI.

ResearchEst. 2017LondonFlagship

GitHub

USA

Source control + Copilot — the original AI coding assistant.

PlatformEst. 2008San FranciscoFlagship

Hugging Face

USA

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

PlatformEst. 2016New York / ParisFlagship

Black Forest Labs

Europe

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

LabEst. 2024FreiburgFlagship

Tenstorrent

Canada

Jim Keller's RISC-V AI silicon company.

HardwareEst. 2016TorontoFlagship

Anthropic

USA

Safety-focused frontier lab — makers of Claude.

LabEst. 2021San FranciscoFlagship

OpenAI

USA

The lab behind ChatGPT, GPT-5.5 and Sora.

LabEst. 2015San FranciscoFlagship

Microsoft Research

USA

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

ResearchEst. 1991RedmondFlagship

Anysphere (Cursor)

USA

The AI-first code editor — Cursor.

ProductEst. 2022San FranciscoFlagship