Organizations shaping AI

Private research university in Rochester, New York, USA, founded in 1850.

University of Utah

The University of Utah is a public research university with major programs in computing, engineering and medicine. Its computing lineage includes influential work in computer graphics, while current research spans machine learning, robotics and data science.

Vanderbilt University

Private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, founded in 1873.

San Francisco robotics startup founded by Evan Wineland and Kaan Dogrusoz, former Apple engineers. Builds Isaac, a wheeled home humanoid robot, with laundry-folding as its first task.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Advises the U.S. president on science and technology, coordinates policy across the executive branch and helps shape federal research priorities. Its remit includes artificial intelligence, quantum technology and biotechnology.

Xilinx was a semiconductor company founded in 1984 that invented the field-programmable gate array (FPGA); it was acquired by AMD in 2022.

The law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA — among the most selective law schools in the world.

You.com

You.com helped push search from ranked links toward conversational, citation-backed answers. It now provides both an AI assistant and search infrastructure that lets other agents retrieve fresh web information, making reliable retrieval part of the emerging AI application stack.

Google-owned video platform whose recommendation, ranking, moderation, speech, and creator systems are among the largest applied AI deployments.

Yutori

Consumer AI agent startup founded by former Meta AI leaders Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, and Abhishek Das. Builds "Scouts," autonomous agents that monitor the web and carry out everyday online tasks.

Zapier is a workflow-automation company founded in 2011 that connects web applications to automate tasks without code.

Aaru

AI-based simulations of human populations to predict consumer behavior and decision-making.

Abridge builds ambient clinical documentation software that turns patient-clinician conversations into structured draft notes for clinician review. Its system combines speech recognition and clinical language models and links generated summaries back to source dialogue.

Absci

Combines generative models with proprietary biological data and laboratory validation to design new protein-based medicines, including antibodies against targets that conventional discovery methods struggle to address.

Accenture

Global professional-services and consulting company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and one of the world's largest IT-services firms. Advises and builds technology for enterprises and governments, with a large data and AI practice.

Adaption develops systems and data tools that let AI models keep learning as tasks, languages and real-world conditions change. Its Adaptive Data platform optimizes training data for specific models and applications.

Affinity is a San Francisco-based relationship intelligence CRM founded in 2014 by Ray Zhou, Shubham Goel, and Joe Lonsdale, designed to automatically structure data from emails and calendars to help relationship-driven firms manage their networks and deal flow.

Afresh

Afresh builds AI software for grocery operations, with tools for store ordering, production planning, inventory management, demand forecasting, and distribution-center buying. Its platform is focused on fresh-food supply chains, where better forecasting can improve availability and reduce waste.

San Francisco company founded in 2017 by Lars Buttler and Rob Meadows, building AI-powered digital humans and personal 3D avatars. Also created Reality Defender, an early deepfake-detection tool.

AI Fund

Venture studio founded by Andrew Ng that co-founds and funds AI startups.

Research project co-founded by Katja Grace studying empirical and conceptual questions about the future of AI. Known for large-scale surveys of AI researchers on timelines, progress, and risk.

Non-profit working to increase diversity and inclusion in AI through education.

Aiara is a Los Gatos, California-based SaaS company offering an AI and IoT platform for manufacturing operations, providing real-time shop-floor monitoring, job scheduling, and optimization tools for industries including aerospace, defense, and automotive.

American International Group (AIG) is a New York-based multinational insurance and financial services corporation founded in 1919, one of the world's largest insurance companies.