Who is
building this.

Adept AI

2022 · San Francisco, CA

AI company building models that can take actions in software by interacting with computer interfaces. Adept's vision is AI that works alongside humans by operating existing software tools.

Adobe AI

1982 (Adobe); AI focus 2016+ · San Jose, CA

Adobe's AI capabilities integrated across its Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud products. Adobe Firefly is trained on licensed content, addressing copyright concerns in generative AI.

Amazon AWS AI

2006 (AWS); AI focus accelerated 2023 · Seattle, WA

Amazon's AI division offers AI services through AWS, including its own Nova models and access to third-party models through Bedrock. AWS is the largest cloud platform for AI deployment.

Anthropic

2021 · San Francisco, CA

AI safety company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Creator of Claude, focused on developing AI that is safe, beneficial, and understandable. Founded by former OpenAI researchers.

AssemblyAI

2017 · San Francisco, CA

AI company providing speech recognition and audio intelligence APIs for developers. AssemblyAI offers state-of-the-art speech-to-text, speaker diarization, content moderation, and summarization for audio data.

Black Forest Labs

2024 · Freiburg, Germany

AI research company founded by the creators of Stable Diffusion, building next-generation image and video models. Black Forest Labs develops the FLUX family of image generation models.

C3.ai

2009 · Redwood City, CA

Enterprise AI platform providing pre-built AI applications for industries including energy, manufacturing, financial services, and defense. C3.ai enables rapid development and deployment of enterprise-scale AI solutions.

Canva AI

2012 (Canva); AI features 2022+ · Sydney, Australia

Canva's AI features democratize design by enabling anyone to create professional visual content. Magic Studio offers AI-powered design tools integrated into Canva's platform used by 170+ million users.

Character.ai

2021 · Menlo Park, CA

Platform for creating and chatting with AI characters, enabling users to interact with fictional and historical personalities. Character.ai focuses on engaging, personality-driven conversations.

Cognition Labs

2023 · New York, NY

AI company that created Devin, the first AI software engineer capable of autonomously planning, coding, debugging, and deploying software. Cognition Labs is pushing the frontier of agentic AI for software development.

Cohere

2019 · Toronto, Canada

Enterprise-focused AI company providing NLP models and tools for businesses. Cohere specializes in text understanding, generation, and retrieval for enterprise search and RAG applications.

Covariant

2017 · Emeryville, CA

AI robotics company building universal AI for robots, enabling them to see, reason, and act in the physical world. Covariant's AI powers robots in warehouses and fulfillment centers worldwide.

CrowdStrike

2011 · Austin, TX

Cloud-native cybersecurity company using AI to protect endpoints, cloud workloads, and identities. CrowdStrike's Charlotte AI assistant helps security analysts investigate and respond to threats faster.

Cursor

2022 · San Francisco, CA

AI-first code editor built on VS Code that integrates AI deeply into the development workflow. Cursor offers AI-powered code completion, editing, chat, and multi-file operations for professional developers.

Darktrace

2013 · Cambridge, UK

Cybersecurity AI company that uses unsupervised machine learning to detect and respond to cyber threats in real time. Darktrace's self-learning AI understands normal business behavior and identifies anomalies.

Databricks

2013 · San Francisco, CA

Data and AI platform company that unifies data engineering, analytics, and AI on a single lakehouse platform. Databricks helps enterprises build and deploy AI applications on their own data.

DataRobot

2012 · Boston, MA

Automated machine learning platform that enables organizations to build and deploy AI models without deep ML expertise. DataRobot provides end-to-end AI lifecycle management for enterprise applications.

Deepgram

2015 · San Francisco, CA

AI speech platform providing fast, accurate speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs. Deepgram's end-to-end deep learning approach delivers real-time transcription with industry-leading speed and accuracy.

DeepSeek

2023 · Hangzhou, China

Chinese AI company that developed highly capable open-source models at a fraction of typical training costs. DeepSeek demonstrated that innovative architectures can produce frontier-level models with much less compute.

Descript

2017 · San Francisco, CA

AI-powered video and audio editing platform that treats media like a document. Descript enables editing video by editing text, with AI features for filler word removal, studio sound, and eye contact correction.

ElevenLabs

2022 · New York, NY

AI voice technology company creating the most realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning tools. ElevenLabs enables content creators, publishers, and developers to generate natural-sounding speech in any voice.

Figma

2012 · San Francisco, CA

Collaborative design platform integrating AI to accelerate design workflows. Figma AI helps designers generate UI layouts, rename layers, remove backgrounds, and translate designs across platforms.

Figure AI

2022 · Sunnyvale, CA

Humanoid robot company building general-purpose robots powered by AI for real-world applications. Figure's robots are designed to work in commercial environments like warehouses, retail, and manufacturing.

Galileo AI

2022 · San Francisco, CA

AI-powered UI design tool that generates high-fidelity interface designs from text descriptions. Galileo AI creates editable Figma-compatible designs instantly, accelerating the design process.

GitHub

2008 (acquired by Microsoft 2018) · San Francisco, CA

The world's largest source code hosting platform, now deeply integrated with AI through GitHub Copilot. Owned by Microsoft, GitHub Copilot has transformed software development with AI-powered code suggestions.

Google DeepMind

2010 (DeepMind), merged 2023 · London, UK & Mountain View, CA

Google's combined AI research lab, formed by merging Google Brain and DeepMind. Builds Gemini models, AlphaFold, and conducts fundamental AI research across scientific domains.

H2O.ai

2012 · Mountain View, CA

Open-source AI and machine learning platform company providing tools for data scientists and enterprises. H2O.ai offers both open-source frameworks and enterprise AI solutions for building and deploying ML models.

Harvey AI

2022 · San Francisco, CA

AI platform built specifically for legal professionals, providing AI-powered tools for legal research, contract analysis, and document drafting. Harvey AI is trained on legal data and workflows.

HubSpot AI

2006 (HubSpot); AI focus 2023+ · Cambridge, MA

HubSpot's AI capabilities integrated across its CRM, marketing, sales, and service hubs. Breeze AI helps small and medium businesses automate marketing, sales outreach, and customer service.

Hugging Face

2016 · New York, NY

The GitHub of machine learning, hosting models, datasets, and ML applications. Hugging Face has become the central hub for the open-source AI community with over 500,000 models available.

Ideogram

2022 · Toronto, Canada

AI image generation company excelling at rendering text within images, a historically challenging task. Ideogram's models produce high-quality images with accurate, legible text integration.

Inflection AI

2022 · Palo Alto, CA

AI company that created Pi, a personal AI assistant designed for empathetic, natural conversation. Founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who later joined Microsoft as CEO of AI.

Jasper

2021 · Austin, TX

Enterprise AI content platform that helps marketing teams create on-brand content at scale. Jasper uses multiple AI models to generate marketing copy, blog posts, social media content, and more.

LangChain

2022 · San Francisco, CA

Open-source framework for building applications powered by language models. LangChain provides tools for chaining LLM calls, managing memory, connecting to data sources, and building AI agents.

Luma AI

2021 · Palo Alto, CA

AI company focused on 3D and video generation, enabling photorealistic 3D capture and creation. Luma AI makes it possible to create 3D models from phone cameras and generate videos from text.

Magic AI

2022 · San Francisco, CA

AI company developing an AI software engineer with a focus on extremely long context windows. Magic aims to build AI that can understand and work with entire codebases, not just individual files.

Meta AI

2013 (FAIR) · Menlo Park, CA

Meta's AI research division, leading the open-source AI movement with the Llama model family. Meta AI also develops AI for social media, AR/VR, and translation across hundreds of languages.

Microsoft AI

1975 (Microsoft); AI focus accelerated 2019 · Redmond, WA

Microsoft's AI division integrates AI across all its products and maintains a close partnership with OpenAI. Microsoft has invested heavily in AI infrastructure and offers AI services through Azure.

Midjourney

2022 · San Francisco, CA

Independent research lab producing the leading AI image generation service. Midjourney creates highly aesthetic, artistic images through Discord and web interfaces, beloved by artists and designers.

Mistral AI

2023 · Paris, France

French AI company building efficient open-source and commercial language models. Founded by former Google DeepMind and Meta researchers, Mistral has rapidly become a European AI leader.

Notion

2013 · San Francisco, CA

All-in-one workspace that has deeply integrated AI to help teams write, brainstorm, and organize information. Notion AI enhances productivity by generating, summarizing, and transforming content within the workspace.

NVIDIA

1993 · Santa Clara, CA

The dominant AI hardware and software company whose GPUs power the vast majority of AI training and inference worldwide. NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem and AI chips are the foundation of modern AI infrastructure.

OpenAI

2015 · San Francisco, CA

AI research company building safe AGI. Creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and Sora. OpenAI has become the most recognizable name in AI, bringing large language models to mainstream adoption.

Otter.ai

2016 · Mountain View, CA

AI meeting assistant that provides real-time transcription, automated meeting summaries, and action item tracking. Otter.ai helps teams capture and act on meeting content automatically.

Palantir

2003 · Denver, CO

Data analytics and AI platform serving government agencies and commercial enterprises. Palantir's AIP platform integrates LLMs with operational data for decision-making in defense, intelligence, and business.

PathAI

2016 · Boston, MA

AI-powered pathology company developing technology to improve accuracy and efficiency of disease diagnosis. PathAI uses machine learning to analyze tissue samples and assist pathologists in cancer detection.

Perplexity

2022 · San Francisco, CA

AI-powered answer engine that provides direct answers to questions with cited sources, reimagining web search. Perplexity combines search with AI to deliver accurate, sourced responses in real time.

Physical Intelligence

2024 · San Francisco, CA

AI robotics startup building foundation models for physical interaction, aiming to create general-purpose robot intelligence. Physical Intelligence develops AI that enables robots to perform diverse real-world tasks.

Pika Labs

2023 · Palo Alto, CA

AI video generation startup creating tools that make video creation accessible to everyone. Pika enables users to generate and edit videos from text, images, and video inputs with simple creative controls.

Pinecone

2019 · New York, NY

Leading vector database company providing managed infrastructure for similarity search and AI applications. Pinecone enables developers to build RAG systems and semantic search without managing complex infrastructure.

Replit

2016 · San Francisco, CA

AI-powered software development platform enabling anyone to build, deploy, and host applications. Replit's AI agent can build complete applications from natural language descriptions.

Runway

2018 · New York, NY

AI creative tools company pioneering generative video. Runway builds tools for filmmakers, content creators, and artists to generate and edit video using AI, pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling.

Salesforce AI

1999 (Salesforce); AI focus 2016+ · San Francisco, CA

Salesforce's AI division integrating AI across the world's largest CRM platform. Einstein AI and Agentforce power predictive analytics, generative AI, and autonomous AI agents for sales, service, and marketing.

Scale AI

2016 · San Francisco, CA

AI data infrastructure company providing high-quality training data and evaluation services for AI models. Scale AI powers the data pipelines of leading AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, and the US government.

Snowflake

2012 · Bozeman, MT

Cloud data platform that has expanded heavily into AI, offering LLM capabilities and ML features directly within its data warehouse. Snowflake enables enterprises to build AI on their existing data infrastructure.

Stability AI

2019 · London, UK

Open-source generative AI company best known for Stable Diffusion, the most widely used open-source image generation model. Stability AI democratized image generation by releasing models openly.

Tempus

2015 · Chicago, IL

AI-driven precision medicine company that uses AI and real-world data to advance healthcare. Tempus analyzes clinical and molecular data to help physicians make more informed treatment decisions.

UiPath

2005 · New York, NY

Enterprise automation platform combining robotic process automation (RPA) with AI to automate business processes. UiPath uses AI to enable intelligent automation of repetitive tasks across organizations.

Vercel

2015 · San Francisco, CA

Frontend cloud platform that has become a hub for AI application development. Creator of Next.js and the AI SDK, Vercel enables developers to build and deploy AI-powered web applications with minimal infrastructure.

Weights & Biases

2017 · San Francisco, CA

MLOps platform for tracking experiments, managing models, and collaborating on ML projects. W&B has become the standard tool for ML teams to log, visualize, and reproduce their experiments.

xAI

2023 · Austin, TX

Elon Musk's AI company building Grok, a conversational AI with real-time access to X (Twitter) data. xAI aims to understand the true nature of the universe through AI.