Organizations
Explore companies, research labs, universities, nonprofits, and public institutions across the AI ecosystem.
Research organization founded by philosopher Nick Bostrom, following the closure of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. Studies long-term strategic ("macrostrategy") questions about advanced AI and humanity's future.
MagicAI software-engineering company founded by Eric Steinberger and Sebastian De Ro, building frontier code-generation models with very long context aimed at automating software development.
Math Inc.Math Inc. builds AI systems that translate ordinary mathematical arguments into Lean, a language in which every step can be checked by a computer. Its Gauss agent completed a formal proof of the strong Prime Number Theorem, demonstrating how AI could reduce the expert labor required to verify complex mathematics.
Michigan State UniversityMichigan State has longstanding AI strengths in computer vision, biometrics and pattern recognition, including influential face and fingerprint research. Its AI groups also work across data mining, language, trustworthy machine learning and intelligent systems for agriculture and autonomous vehicles.
MIT CSAILThe Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT — the institute's largest research lab, formed from the merger of the AI Lab and the Laboratory for Computer Science.
The business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for management research and the MBA.
ML CollectiveNon-profit research collective providing open mentorship and collaboration in machine learning.
MongoDBMongoDB is a database company founded in 2007, known for its eponymous open-source document-oriented database and the Atlas managed cloud service.
Morgan Stanley is a global investment bank and financial-services firm founded in 1935 and headquartered in New York.
San Francisco AI company founded in 2023 by Jesse Han, building infrastructure for AI software engineering and formal mathematics — including Infinibranch and Liquid Metal ("Git for compute") — toward what it calls "verified superintelligence."
MosaicML was a generative-AI infrastructure startup founded in 2021 that focused on efficient large-model training; it was acquired by Databricks in 2023.
NASAUnited States space agency whose research programs use AI across robotics, autonomy, Earth observation, scientific discovery, and mission operations.
National Security CouncilThe council advises the U.S. president on national security and foreign policy and coordinates those policies across federal departments and agencies. Its staff increasingly covers cybersecurity, emerging technology and artificial intelligence alongside traditional security issues.
NeuralinkBrain-computer-interface company co-founded by Elon Musk, developing implantable neural devices.
NotionProductivity software company that makes an all-in-one workspace for notes, documents, wikis and databases.
AI model-serving and compute platform (formerly OctoML), commercialising efficient inference; acquired by NVIDIA in 2024.
Virtual-reality company, founded in 2012 by Palmer Luckey, maker of the Oculus Rift headset; acquired by Facebook in 2014.
OdysseyOdyssey develops interactive visual world models: systems that generate video environments viewers can explore and influence in real time. The company is aimed at film, games and simulation, where controllable moving worlds matter more than producing a single finished image or clip.
Private engineering college in Needham, Massachusetts, USA, founded in 1997 and known for its project-based curriculum.
Palisade ResearchPalisade Research tests the offensive cyber capabilities and controllability of frontier AI systems. Its experiments examine behaviors such as shutdown resistance and autonomous replication, with the aim of helping institutions keep advanced systems under human control.
Multi-stakeholder non-profit bringing together civil society, academia, and industry to study responsible AI practices and policy.
PayPalPayPal is a digital payments company formed from the merger of Confinity and X.com. Its early executive and engineering network, often called the PayPal Mafia, went on to found or fund companies including Tesla, SpaceX, LinkedIn, Palantir, YouTube, Yelp, and many later AI startups.
Builds generative-video models and creative tools that turn text and images into short videos, visual effects, and real-time video identities for AI agents.
Pomona CollegePrivate liberal arts college in Claremont, California, USA, founded in 1887.