Organizations shaping AI

Qualcomm is a semiconductor and wireless-technology company founded in 1985 and based in San Diego. Its Snapdragon system-on-chips power most premium Android devices and a growing range of on-device AI workloads.

Resolution

Resolution researches how to understand and control advanced AI systems before their reasoning becomes too complex for people to follow. Founded by Geoffrey Irving and Daniel Murfet, it combines alignment research with mathematics and interpretability aimed at making model behavior more legible.

Ricursive Intelligence

Self-improving systems, starting with chip design.

Robinhood

Robinhood is a financial-services company founded in 2013 that pioneered commission-free stock and crypto trading through its mobile app.

Public research university in New Jersey with active machine-learning and computer-science research.

AI startup founded by Maithra Raghu, formerly of Google Brain. Builds expert "knowledge agents" for financial-services workflows such as investment research, diligence, and client advisory.

Secure AI Project is a US nonprofit that develops and advocates for policies to reduce severe risks from frontier AI models, co-founded by Nick Beckstead and Thomas Woodside. It was a sponsor of California's SB 53 frontier-AI transparency law.

Sesame

Conversational voice AI company founded by Brendan Iribe (co-founder of Oculus VR), Ankit Kumar, and Ryan Brown. Builds emotionally expressive voice companions and lightweight smart eyewear.

Shield AI

Shield AI develops Hivemind, an autonomy stack designed to pilot military aircraft and drones without relying on GPS, communications, or a remote pilot.

Sierra

Enterprise AI company building conversational agents for customer service and business workflows.

Private foundation, founded in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons, that funds basic research in mathematics and the sciences.

Sooth Labs

Develops a world model for long-horizon global foresight, combining discrete events and continuous signals into calibrated, auditable forecasts for geopolitical, economic, and other real-world events.

Spotify is an audio-streaming service founded in 2006 in Stockholm by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It relies heavily on machine learning for music recommendation and personalization.

SRI International is an independent nonprofit research institute founded in 1946 as the Stanford Research Institute; among its many spinouts, the Siri virtual assistant originated there.

Stop AI

American activist organization formed in 2024 by Sam Kirchner and Guido Reichstadter that campaigns — through protests and civil disobedience — to permanently ban the development of artificial general and superintelligence.

Sunday Robotics

Sunday Robotics is building Memo, a home robot designed to learn chores from human demonstrations captured with a sensor glove. Its bet is that large-scale, real-world manipulation data can make household robots generalize across unfamiliar homes without remote operators controlling them.

Public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, founded in 1884.

Transluce

Builds open research and software for studying model behavior at scale. Its work includes automated discovery of unexpected behavior, interpretable concept analysis and tools for producing verifiable evaluations of AI systems.

Health-sciences university whose AI community develops, applies, and evaluates systems for computational health, clinical care, imaging, and biomedical research, with an emphasis on trustworthy and equitable use.

Pioneered large-scale online technology education after emerging from a free Stanford AI course. Its industry-designed Nanodegree programs helped popularize short, job-focused training in programming, data science and machine learning; Udacity now operates as part of Accenture.

Public research university in Tucson, Arizona, USA, founded in 1885.

Public research university in Newark, Delaware, USA, founded in 1743.

Public research university in Athens, Georgia, USA, founded in 1785 — the oldest public university in the United States.

Public research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, founded in 1787.