93 companies tracked 6 categories
01.AI AI Lab

Chinese AI company founded by Kai-Fu Lee developing the Yi family of large language models, one of China's leading frontier model developers with strong open-source presence.

EST. 2023 Beijing, China ~150
FUNDING $200M+
Adept AI AI Lab ACQUIRED

AI lab focused on building agents that interact with software, acquired by Amazon in 2024 in a structured deal.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~30 (post-acquisition)
FUNDING $415M
AI21 Labs AI Lab

Israeli AI lab building Jamba, a hybrid SSM-Transformer architecture, focused on enterprise language AI.

EST. 2017 Tel Aviv, Israel ~350
FUNDING $536M
Alibaba Qwen AI Lab

Alibaba Cloud's AI model division, producing the Qwen family of open-weight models that rival Western frontier systems.

EST. 2023 Hangzhou, China ~500 (Qwen team)
FUNDING Alibaba subsidiary
Amazon AWS Infrastructure

The world's largest cloud provider, offering AI infrastructure through Bedrock, custom Trainium chips, and a strategic $4B+ investment in Anthropic.

EST. 2006 Seattle, WA ~750,000 (Amazon total)
FUNDING IPO (1997, Amazon)
AMD Hardware IPO

NVIDIA's primary GPU competitor, aggressively expanding its AI accelerator portfolio with MI-series chips and the ROCm software stack.

EST. 1969 Santa Clara, CA ~26,000
FUNDING Public (AMD)
Anthropic AI Lab

AI safety company building Claude, focused on developing reliable and interpretable AI systems.

EST. 2021 San Francisco, CA ~1,500
FUNDING $13.7B+
Anyscale Infrastructure

The company behind Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework used to train most frontier AI models.

EST. 2019 San Francisco, CA ~250
FUNDING $260M+
Anysphere Developer Tooling

Creator of Cursor, the AI-native code editor that has become the fastest-growing developer tool by integrating AI deeply into the editing experience.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~60
FUNDING $500M+
Baidu AI Lab

China's leading search engine and AI company, operating ERNIE Bot as the country's most widely adopted large language model and investing heavily in autonomous driving.

EST. 2000 Beijing, China ~35,000
FUNDING IPO (2005)
Baseten Infrastructure

ML inference platform providing production-grade model serving with auto-scaling, GPU optimization, and enterprise reliability.

EST. 2019 San Francisco, CA ~100
FUNDING $78M+
Cerebras Hardware

AI hardware company building wafer-scale chips, the largest processors ever made, designed for AI training and inference at massive scale.

EST. 2016 Sunnyvale, CA ~500
FUNDING $720M+
Character.ai AI Lab

Consumer AI platform enabling users to create and chat with customizable AI characters, with massive Gen-Z adoption.

EST. 2021 Menlo Park, CA ~250
FUNDING $200M+
Chroma Developer Tooling

Open-source embedding database designed for AI applications, optimized for developer experience and local-first development.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~30
FUNDING $20M+
Cognition Application

AI company behind Devin, the first AI software engineer capable of autonomously completing complex coding tasks.

EST. 2023 New York, NY ~50
FUNDING $200M+
Cohere AI Lab

Enterprise-focused AI lab building language models optimized for business use cases, with strong RAG and embedding capabilities.

EST. 2019 Toronto, Canada ~500
FUNDING $1.1B+
Copy.ai Application

AI-powered go-to-market platform automating sales and marketing workflows with AI agents.

EST. 2020 Memphis, TN ~200
FUNDING $40M+
CoreWeave Infrastructure

GPU cloud provider that has become the preferred infrastructure partner for AI labs needing massive compute capacity outside hyperscalers.

EST. 2017 Livingston, NJ ~1,500
FUNDING $12B+ (equity + debt)
Covariant Application

AI robotics company building foundation models for physical manipulation, enabling robots to handle any object in warehouses and logistics.

EST. 2017 Emeryville, CA ~200
FUNDING $222M+
Cursor Developer Tooling

An AI-first code editor built on VS Code that has become the fastest-growing developer tool, using frontier LLMs for intelligent code generation and editing.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~100
FUNDING $400M+
d-Matrix Hardware

AI inference chip company building digital in-memory compute processors designed for low-latency, high-efficiency LLM inference.

EST. 2019 Santa Clara, CA ~200
FUNDING $160M+
Databricks Infrastructure

Unified data and AI platform combining lakehouse architecture with AI model training, serving, and governance for enterprises.

EST. 2013 San Francisco, CA ~7,000
FUNDING $4.6B+
DeepSeek AI Lab

Chinese AI lab that stunned the industry with efficient open-source models rivaling Western frontier labs at a fraction of the training cost.

EST. 2023 Hangzhou, China ~300
FUNDING Self-funded (High-Flyer hedge fund)
Defined.ai Data & Labeling

AI data marketplace providing high-quality training data across text, speech, image, and video for machine learning applications.

EST. 2015 Seattle, WA ~300
FUNDING $77M+
Descript Application

AI-powered audio and video editing platform that treats media like a document, enabling text-based editing of multimedia content.

EST. 2017 San Francisco, CA ~250
FUNDING $165M+
ElevenLabs Application

AI voice technology company providing the most realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, and audio AI tools.

EST. 2022 New York, NY ~200
FUNDING $180M+
Fireworks AI Infrastructure

AI inference platform built by former Meta engineers, specializing in fast, cost-efficient model serving for production applications.

EST. 2022 Redwood City, CA ~120
FUNDING $170M+
GitHub Copilot Developer Tooling

AI pair programmer built into GitHub and VS Code, the most widely deployed AI coding assistant with millions of users.

EST. 2021 San Francisco, CA Part of GitHub (~5,000)
FUNDING Microsoft/GitHub subsidiary
Glean Application

Enterprise AI search and knowledge management platform that connects all workplace applications into a unified, searchable AI assistant.

EST. 2019 Palo Alto, CA ~800
FUNDING $620M+
Google Cloud Infrastructure

Google's cloud platform offering AI infrastructure through Vertex AI, custom TPUs, and native Gemini model integration for enterprise customers.

EST. 2008 Sunnyvale, CA ~60,000 (Google Cloud)
FUNDING IPO (2004, Alphabet)
Google DeepMind AI Lab

Google's combined AI research division, merging DeepMind and Google Brain to build Gemini and advance fundamental AI research.

EST. 2010 London, UK ~4,000
FUNDING Google subsidiary
Grammarly Application

AI-powered writing assistant used by 30+ million daily users, now expanding into enterprise communication intelligence.

EST. 2009 San Francisco, CA ~1,000
FUNDING $400M+
Graphcore Hardware ACQUIRED

AI chip startup that developed the IPU (Intelligence Processing Unit) before being acquired by SoftBank in 2024 after failing to compete with NVIDIA.

EST. 2016 Bristol, UK ~300 (pre-acquisition)
FUNDING $682M
Groq Hardware

AI inference company building custom LPU chips designed for ultra-fast, deterministic language model inference.

EST. 2016 Mountain View, CA ~400
FUNDING $640M+
Harvey AI Application

AI platform purpose-built for legal professionals, providing AI-powered legal research, drafting, and analysis for law firms.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~200
FUNDING $206M+
Hugging Face Developer Tooling

The GitHub of machine learning, hosting over 500K models and providing the open-source tools and community infrastructure for the AI ecosystem.

EST. 2016 New York, NY ~200
FUNDING $395M+
Imbue AI Lab

AI research company focused on building AI agents with robust reasoning and coding capabilities, aiming for AI systems that can reliably plan and execute complex multi-step tasks.

EST. 2021 San Francisco, CA ~100
FUNDING $220M+
Inflection AI AI Lab ACQUIRED

AI lab that built Pi, a personal AI assistant, before its team was largely absorbed by Microsoft in a landmark acqui-hire deal.

EST. 2022 Palo Alto, CA ~50 (post-acquisition)
FUNDING $1.5B
Jasper Application

Enterprise AI marketing platform providing brand-consistent content generation for marketing teams.

EST. 2021 Austin, TX ~300
FUNDING $131M
Labelbox Data & Labeling

Data-centric AI platform providing labeling, model evaluation, and data management tools for enterprise AI development.

EST. 2018 San Francisco, CA ~400
FUNDING $188M+
Lambda Infrastructure

GPU cloud and workstation provider serving AI researchers and companies with on-demand NVIDIA GPU access and deep learning infrastructure.

EST. 2012 Austin, TX ~400
FUNDING $800M+
LangChain Developer Tooling

The most widely used framework for building LLM-powered applications, with tools for chains, agents, and retrieval-augmented generation.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~100
FUNDING $35M+
LlamaIndex Developer Tooling

Data framework for LLM applications, specializing in connecting custom data sources to language models for RAG and knowledge-powered AI.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~50
FUNDING $19M+
Luma AI Application

AI company building multimodal generation models for video (Dream Machine) and 3D content creation.

EST. 2021 Palo Alto, CA ~80
FUNDING $70M+
Magic AI Application

AI company building coding models with extremely long context windows, aiming to reason over entire codebases at once.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~60
FUNDING $465M+
Meta AI AI Lab

Meta's AI research division (FAIR) driving open-source AI with Llama models and integrating AI across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

EST. 2013 Menlo Park, CA ~1,000 (FAIR)
FUNDING Meta subsidiary
Microsoft Infrastructure

The world's largest software company, leveraging its OpenAI partnership and Azure cloud to embed AI across enterprise productivity and developer tools.

EST. 1975 Redmond, WA ~228,000
FUNDING IPO (1986)
Midjourney Application

Independent AI image generation lab creating the most aesthetically refined AI art tool, operating profitably with no external funding.

EST. 2021 San Francisco, CA ~60
FUNDING $0 (self-funded, profitable)
MiniMax AI Lab

Chinese AI startup focused on multimodal generation, known for consumer-facing applications and advanced voice/video AI.

EST. 2021 Shanghai, China ~800
FUNDING $900M+
Mistral AI AI Lab

European AI lab building efficient open-weight and commercial models, positioned as Europe's leading frontier AI company.

EST. 2023 Paris, France ~700
FUNDING $2.2B+
Modal Infrastructure

Serverless cloud platform for AI and data workloads, enabling developers to run GPU compute without managing infrastructure.

EST. 2021 New York, NY ~80
FUNDING $115M+
Modular AI Infrastructure

AI infrastructure company building the Mojo programming language and MAX platform to unify and accelerate AI development across hardware, founded by LLVM/Swift creator Chris Lattner.

EST. 2022 Santa Clara, CA ~150
FUNDING $130M+
Notion AI Application

Workspace productivity platform with deeply integrated AI features for writing, summarization, and knowledge management.

EST. 2013 San Francisco, CA ~700
FUNDING $343M
NVIDIA Hardware IPO

The dominant AI chip company, providing the GPUs and software stack that powers virtually all large-scale AI training and inference.

EST. 1993 Santa Clara, CA ~32,000
FUNDING Public (NVDA)
OpenAI AI Lab

The company behind GPT-4 and ChatGPT, leading the commercialization of large language models and pushing toward artificial general intelligence.

EST. 2015 San Francisco, CA ~3,500
FUNDING $17.9B+
Otter.ai Application

AI meeting assistant providing real-time transcription, automated notes, and action items for meetings and conversations.

EST. 2016 Mountain View, CA ~200
FUNDING $63M+
Perplexity Application

AI-powered answer engine combining real-time web search with language model synthesis, challenging Google's search dominance.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~200
FUNDING $500M+
Pika Application

AI video generation startup focused on creative video editing and generation, competing with Runway and Sora.

EST. 2023 Palo Alto, CA ~60
FUNDING $135M+
Pinecone Developer Tooling

The leading purpose-built vector database for AI applications, enabling semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation at scale.

EST. 2019 San Francisco, CA ~300
FUNDING $238M+
Poolside AI Application

AI lab building foundation models specifically for software engineering, training on code execution and reinforcement learning from code feedback.

EST. 2023 San Francisco, CA ~100
FUNDING $626M+
Qdrant Developer Tooling

High-performance open-source vector database built in Rust, designed for production-scale similarity search with advanced filtering.

EST. 2021 Berlin, Germany ~80
FUNDING $30M+
Rain AI Hardware

Neuromorphic AI chip company building brain-inspired processors that combine digital and analog computing for efficient AI inference.

EST. 2017 San Francisco, CA ~80
FUNDING $75M+
Replicate Infrastructure

Platform for running open-source AI models in the cloud with a simple API, making it easy to deploy and scale ML models.

EST. 2019 San Francisco, CA ~80
FUNDING $58M+
Replit Developer Tooling

Browser-based IDE and AI development platform enabling anyone to build software through natural language with Replit Agent.

EST. 2016 San Francisco, CA ~200
FUNDING $222M+
Runway Application

AI creative tools company pioneering video generation with Gen-3 Alpha, serving filmmakers, advertisers, and creative professionals.

EST. 2018 New York, NY ~150
FUNDING $240M+
Safe Superintelligence Inc AI Lab

AI safety research company co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, focused solely on building safe superintelligence without commercial product pressure.

EST. 2023 Palo Alto, CA ~100
FUNDING $1B+
Sakana AI AI Lab

Tokyo-based AI research lab founded by former Google Brain researchers David Ha and Llion Jones, focusing on nature-inspired and evolutionary approaches to AI development.

EST. 2023 Tokyo, Japan ~50
FUNDING $200M+
Sama Data & Labeling

Ethical AI training data company providing annotation services while creating employment opportunities in underserved communities globally.

EST. 2008 San Francisco, CA ~4,000
FUNDING $55M+
SambaNova Hardware

AI hardware and software company building the SN40L chip and full-stack enterprise AI platform for running large language models.

EST. 2017 Palo Alto, CA ~500
FUNDING $1.1B+
Samsung AI Hardware

Samsung's AI division driving on-device intelligence across Galaxy smartphones, appliances, and semiconductors through Galaxy AI and proprietary Gauss language models.

EST. 1969 Suwon, South Korea ~267,000 (Samsung Electronics)
FUNDING IPO (KRX)
Samsung Semiconductor Hardware IPO

Major semiconductor manufacturer operating both memory and foundry businesses, competing in HBM and advanced chip fabrication for AI.

EST. 1969 Hwaseong, South Korea ~70,000 (semiconductor division)
FUNDING Public (005930.KS)
Scale AI Data & Labeling

The leading AI data platform providing data labeling, model evaluation, and data curation for frontier AI labs and enterprise customers.

EST. 2016 San Francisco, CA ~1,200
FUNDING $1B+
Sierra AI Application

Enterprise AI agent company building conversational AI for customer experience, founded by former Salesforce CEO Bret Taylor and Google AI chief Clay Bavor.

EST. 2023 San Francisco, CA ~200
FUNDING $285M+
SK Hynix Hardware IPO

Leading memory chip manufacturer and primary supplier of HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) that powers AI accelerators from NVIDIA and AMD.

EST. 1983 Icheon, South Korea ~35,000
FUNDING Public (000660.KS)
Snorkel AI Data & Labeling

Data development platform using programmatic labeling and weak supervision to build training datasets at enterprise scale.

EST. 2019 Palo Alto, CA ~250
FUNDING $135M+
Snowflake Infrastructure IPO

Cloud data platform expanding aggressively into AI with Cortex, Arctic, and native LLM capabilities built on its data cloud.

EST. 2012 Bozeman, MT ~6,800
FUNDING Public (SNOW)
Stability AI AI Lab

Open-source generative AI company behind Stable Diffusion, the most widely used open image generation model.

EST. 2020 London, UK ~200
FUNDING $300M+
Suno Application

AI music generation platform that creates original songs from text prompts, making professional-quality music creation accessible to anyone without musical training.

EST. 2022 Cambridge, MA ~50
FUNDING $125M+
Surge AI Data & Labeling

Data labeling platform built by NLP researchers, specializing in high-quality text annotation and RLHF data for language models.

EST. 2020 San Francisco, CA ~80
FUNDING $12M+
Synthesia Application

AI video generation platform creating realistic AI avatars for enterprise video communication, training, and marketing.

EST. 2017 London, UK ~400
FUNDING $157M+
Tenstorrent Hardware

AI chip company led by legendary architect Jim Keller, building open-source RISC-V based AI processors for training and inference.

EST. 2016 Toronto, Canada ~400
FUNDING $350M+
Together AI Infrastructure

AI cloud platform focused on open-source model inference and fine-tuning, offering fast and affordable access to leading open models.

EST. 2022 San Francisco, CA ~200
FUNDING $425M+
TSMC Hardware IPO

The world's largest semiconductor foundry, manufacturing the advanced chips that power AI including NVIDIA, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm processors.

EST. 1987 Hsinchu, Taiwan ~76,000
FUNDING Public (TSM)
Unstructured Developer Tooling

Data preprocessing platform that transforms unstructured documents (PDFs, images, emails) into clean data ready for LLM applications and RAG.

EST. 2022 Sacramento, CA ~80
FUNDING $65M+
Vectara Developer Tooling

End-to-end RAG platform providing enterprise search and retrieval with built-in hallucination detection and grounded generation.

EST. 2022 Palo Alto, CA ~80
FUNDING $48M+
Vercel Developer Tooling

Frontend cloud platform and creator of Next.js, now building v0, an AI tool that generates production-ready UI components from prompts.

EST. 2015 San Francisco, CA ~500
FUNDING $363M+
Weaviate Developer Tooling

Open-source vector database with built-in vectorization, hybrid search, and generative AI integration for production RAG applications.

EST. 2019 Amsterdam, Netherlands ~200
FUNDING $68M+
Weights & Biases Developer Tooling

MLOps platform providing experiment tracking, model monitoring, and collaboration tools for machine learning teams.

EST. 2017 San Francisco, CA ~350
FUNDING $250M+
Windsurf (Codeium) Developer Tooling

AI coding platform offering the Windsurf IDE and Codeium code completion tools, providing agentic coding capabilities as a direct competitor to Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

EST. 2021 Mountain View, CA ~200
FUNDING $243M+
World Labs AI Lab

Spatial intelligence AI company founded by Fei-Fei Li, focused on building AI systems that understand and reason about 3D physical space and the real world.

EST. 2024 San Francisco, CA ~100
FUNDING $230M+
Writer Application

Enterprise AI platform providing full-stack generative AI for businesses, including proprietary models, an orchestration layer, and business applications built on company knowledge.

EST. 2020 San Francisco, CA ~300
FUNDING $326M+
xAI AI Lab

Elon Musk's AI venture building Grok, focused on truth-seeking AI and integrated with the X platform.

EST. 2023 Austin, TX ~500
FUNDING $12B+
Zhipu AI AI Lab

Chinese AI lab spun out of Tsinghua University, building GLM models and the ChatGLM platform for enterprise AI applications.

EST. 2019 Beijing, China ~800
FUNDING $700M+

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