Department · Cartography6 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.
Meta AI
USAMeta's open-weights research arm — makers of Llama.
LabEst. 2013Menlo ParkFlagship
xAI
USAElon Musk's frontier lab — makers of Grok.
LabEst. 2023Palo AltoFlagship
Google DeepMind
USAGoogle's unified AI research org — makers of Gemini and Veo.
LabEst. 2010London / Mountain ViewFlagship
Adept
USAAgent-action research — team mostly absorbed by Amazon.
LabEst. 2022San Francisco
Anthropic
USASafety-focused frontier lab — makers of Claude.
LabEst. 2021San FranciscoFlagship
OpenAI
USAThe lab behind ChatGPT, GPT-5.5 and Sora.
LabEst. 2015San FranciscoFlagship