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.
Meta AI
USAMeta's open-weights research arm — makers of Llama.
xAI
USAElon Musk's frontier lab — makers of Grok.
Nvidia
USAThe GPU monopolist that powers virtually every frontier model.
Google DeepMind
USAGoogle's unified AI research org — makers of Gemini and Veo.
Apple
USAApple Intelligence — on-device LLMs across the Apple ecosystem.
Amazon (AWS)
USAAmazon Bedrock + Trainium — the cloud's largest AI catalog.
Perplexity
USAAnswer engine — search with citations.
Inflection AI
USAEmpathic chatbot lab — most of the team now at Microsoft.
Character.AI
USARoleplay chatbots — most of the team licensed back to Google.
Runway
USAGenerative video for filmmakers — Gen-4 leads the field.
Pika
USAGenerative video for the consumer side of the market.
Midjourney
USAThe pre-eminent image generation product — bootstrapped.
ElevenLabs
USAThe voice synthesis leader — TTS, voice cloning and dubbing.
Replicate
USARun any open-source model in the cloud as an API.
Modal Labs
USAServerless GPU compute for AI workloads.
Together AI
USAOpen-source model inference and training infrastructure.
Groq
USALPU silicon for ultra-low-latency LLM inference.
SambaNova Systems
USAReconfigurable dataflow silicon for enterprise AI.
Lambda
USAGPU cloud + workstations for AI engineers.
Vercel
USAFrontend cloud + AI SDK + v0.
Cerebras Systems
USAWafer-scale silicon — entire model on a single chip.
OpenRouter
USAUnified API for 300+ LLMs with smart routing and fallback.
Scale AI
USAData labelling + RLHF infrastructure for frontier labs.
Databricks
USAData + AI platform — DBRX open-weights model.
Adept
USAAgent-action research — team mostly absorbed by Amazon.
GitHub
USASource control + Copilot — the original AI coding assistant.
Hugging Face
USAThe GitHub of machine learning — models, datasets, Spaces.
Anthropic
USASafety-focused frontier lab — makers of Claude.
OpenAI
USAThe lab behind ChatGPT, GPT-5.5 and Sora.
Microsoft Research
USAMicrosoft's AI research arm — Phi small models and Azure AI.
Anysphere (Cursor)
USAThe AI-first code editor — Cursor.