Organizations shaping AI

D. E. Shaw & Co. is known for applying mathematical modeling, computation, and careful risk management to systematic investment strategies.

Decagon

Decagon is a San Francisco-based startup building AI agents that automate enterprise customer support across chat, voice, email, and SMS.

Discord

Discord is a voice, video, and text communication platform founded in 2015, originally aimed at gamers and now widely used by online communities.

Global interactive entertainment company developing games, content, and online services.

ElevenLabs

Voice AI company building speech synthesis, voice cloning, dubbing, and audio-generation tools for creators and enterprises.

Encord

AI data infrastructure company building a multimodal platform for data curation, annotation, evaluation, and training-data workflows for physical AI and enterprise teams.

Evitable

A communications and movement-building nonprofit that informs the public about societal-scale risks from advanced AI and organizes public action around how increasingly powerful systems are developed.

fal.ai

San Francisco generative-media platform founded by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven. Hosts hundreds of image, video, and audio models behind a fast inference API for developers.

Independent US government agency that enforces consumer-protection and antitrust law, founded in 1914 and active on AI and data-privacy regulation.

Machine-learning observability startup, founded in 2020 by Josh Tobin and Vicki Cheung (both formerly of OpenAI), that monitored AI models in production.

Physical-AI research lab and full-stack robotics company building a universal robotics foundation model and data platform for general-purpose robots. Emerged from stealth in 2025 with $105M co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures.

George Washington University

George Washington University brings an unusual Washington policy setting to AI research. Its university-wide Trustworthy AI Initiative joins engineering with law, public policy, health and social science to study how AI systems should be designed, evaluated and governed.

Gray Swan AI

AI-safety startup building tools to test and secure AI systems against adversarial attacks and jailbreaks.

Venture capital firm founded in 1965, an early backer of companies including LinkedIn and Airbnb and an active investor in AI startups.

Guidelight AI Standards

Develops concrete safety standards for frontier AI companies, assesses whether their practices meet those standards, and uses public scrutiny and market incentives to encourage adoption.

Higgsfield AI

Generative AI company founded by Alex Mashrabov, former head of Generative AI at Snap. Builds consumer tools for AI video and image creation.

Hotshot

Hotshot was a San Francisco-based AI video generation startup founded by Aakash Sastry and John Mullan, known for its text-to-video models including Hotshot-XL. It was acquired by xAI in March 2025.

Open-access AI cloud founded in 2022 by Jasper Zhang and Yuchen Jin, providing affordable GPU compute, inference, and model hosting for AI developers.

Imbue

Imbue is an AI company formerly known as Generally Intelligent, founded by Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht. It builds AI tools and agents intended to help people think, create, and code, with products such as mngr, Bouncer, and Sculptor. Its research and policy work focuses on reasoning systems, coding agents, and user-controlled AI.

Insilico Medicine

Drug-discovery company applying generative AI to longevity and disease research.

Instacart

Instacart is a grocery-delivery and pickup company founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, connecting customers with personal shoppers at local stores.

Institute for AI Policy and Strategy

Research organisation analysing the policy and governance implications of advanced AI (IAPS).

Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. It was the first institutional investor in OpenAI, investing $50 million in 2019.

Generative AI design tool founded by Victor Perez and Diego Rodriguez, known for its real-time AI image and video canvas for creators.