Organizations shaping AI

Airtable is a San Francisco-based software company founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas, offering a low-code cloud database and spreadsheet platform increasingly used with AI workflows.

Algorithmic Justice League

Nonprofit founded by Joy Buolamwini to expose bias and harms in AI — especially facial recognition — and to push for more equitable and accountable systems through research and advocacy.

Alphabet

Alphabet is the parent company of Google and a group of independently run technology businesses. Google accounts for most of the group, while its other businesses pursue longer-term work in areas including life sciences, autonomous transport, and advanced research.

Altos Labs

Altos Labs develops cellular-rejuvenation therapies through partial epigenetic reprogramming, aiming to reverse disease by restoring cell health and resilience.

Americans for Responsible Innovation

"Dedicated to AI policy advocacy in the public interest."

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college founded in 1821 in Amherst, Massachusetts, consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the United States.

AMP PBC

AMP operates an independent AI grid that pools compute infrastructure across frontier research teams while allowing each member to remain independent.

Developer platform and software distribution for building and operating data-science and AI systems. It maintains conda, a widely used package and environment manager, and provides governed access to open-source packages for enterprise teams.

Apical Intelligence

Apical Intelligence combines neuroscience-inspired machine learning with systems engineering to reduce the power, time, and cost required by advanced AI, extending a research legacy inherited from Numenta.

Apodex develops open and commercial AI agents for long-horizon research. Its systems plan investigations, search the web, use tools and independently verify evidence before synthesizing answers for scientific and other complex work.

Archetype AI

Physical-AI company founded by Ivan Poupyrev and colleagues, many formerly of Google. Builds Newton, a foundation model that fuses real-time sensor data with natural language to perceive and reason about the physical world.

Architect Labs

AI hardware startup building systems for AI-designed silicon. The company announced a $24 million seed round in 2026.

Arklex AI

AI agent developer framework spun out of Columbia University's NLP lab in 2023 by Professor Zhou Yu. Provides open-source multi-agent orchestration and vertical agents for sales, customer service, and e-commerce.

Artifact

Artifact was a San Francisco-based AI-powered news aggregation app launched by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger; it used personalized recommendation algorithms to surface articles but shut down as a standalone product and was acquired by Yahoo in March 2024.

Artificial Analysis

Independent AI benchmarking and analysis company tracking model quality, speed, price, and deployment tradeoffs across frontier and open models.

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company

AIUC certifies and insures AI agents.

AssemblyAI is a San Francisco-based AI company that provides speech recognition and audio intelligence APIs, including transcription, summarization, and speaker detection.

Atlas Fellowship

The Atlas Fellowship is a US-based non-profit that awards scholarships and runs programs for high-school students interested in AI safety, existential risk, and effective altruism.

Atomic AI

Biotechnology company combining machine learning, structural biology, and experimental assays to predict RNA structure and develop RNA-targeted medicines.

Augment Code

AI coding startup building context-aware developer tools for large software teams and complex codebases.

AVERI

"Working to make third-party auditing of frontier AI effective and universal."

Baseten

Baseten is a San Francisco-based ML infrastructure company that provides a platform for deploying and serving machine learning models at production scale.

Baylor University is a private Baptist research university founded in 1845 in Waco, Texas, and is the world's largest Baptist university, with research programs in computer science and AI.

BDT & MSD Partners

Merchant bank and advisory firm serving founders, families, and long-term strategic investors.