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Department · Cartography31 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

Apple

USA

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

ProductEst. 1976Cupertino

Amazon (AWS)

USA

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

PlatformEst. 1994SeattleFlagship

Perplexity

USA

Answer engine — search with citations.

ProductEst. 2022San FranciscoFlagship

Inflection AI

USA

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

ProductEst. 2022Palo Alto

Character.AI

USA

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

ProductEst. 2021Menlo Park

Runway

USA

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

ProductEst. 2018New YorkFlagship

Pika

USA

Generative video for the consumer side of the market.

ProductEst. 2023Palo Alto

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

Replicate

USA

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

PlatformEst. 2019San Francisco

Modal Labs

USA

Serverless GPU compute for AI workloads.

InfraEst. 2021New York

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

SambaNova Systems

USA

Reconfigurable dataflow silicon for enterprise AI.

HardwareEst. 2017Palo Alto

Lambda

USA

GPU cloud + workstations for AI engineers.

InfraEst. 2012San Francisco

Vercel

USA

Frontend cloud + AI SDK + v0.

PlatformEst. 2015San FranciscoFlagship

Cerebras Systems

USA

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

HardwareEst. 2016Sunnyvale

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

Adept

USA

Agent-action research — team mostly absorbed by Amazon.

LabEst. 2022San Francisco

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

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