Organizations shaping AI

Carleton College is a private liberal arts college founded in 1866 in Northfield, Minnesota, recognized for rigorous undergraduate academics across the sciences and humanities.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Carnegie Endowment produces independent analysis on international conflict, diplomacy, governance, security, and emerging global challenges through a network of policy research centers.

Case Western Reserve University is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded 1880) and Western Reserve University (founded 1826), with strengths in engineering, medicine, law, and management.

Center for AI Policy

The Center for AI Policy (CAIP) is a nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit research organization founded in 2023, focused on developing and advocating for policies to mitigate catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems.

The Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) is a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit founded in 2012 by Anna Salamon, Julia Galef, Valentine Smith, and Andrew Critch, offering workshops drawing on psychology and decision theory to help people reason and act more effectively.

Cerebras

Cerebras builds wafer-scale processors, systems, and cloud infrastructure for high-speed AI training and inference. Its Wafer Scale Engine replaces clusters of conventional accelerator chips with a processor spanning an entire silicon wafer.

Chicago Booth

University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a major business school with research strengths across economics, finance, decision-making, and markets.

Citadel Securities is a Miami-based global market-making firm founded in 2002 by Kenneth Griffin, operating as one of the world's largest liquidity providers across equities, fixed income, and derivatives.

Clarifai

Computer-vision company providing image and video recognition APIs and a full-stack AI platform. Acquired by Nebius in May 2026.

Nonprofit (chaired by co-founder Priya Donti) that catalyzes work at the intersection of machine learning and climate change, building a global community of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

Cloudera is a Santa Clara, California-based enterprise data platform company founded in 2008 by alumni from Google, Yahoo, Oracle, and Facebook, originally built around Apache Hadoop; it merged with Hortonworks in 2019 and provides hybrid cloud data management and analytics software.

Cloudmark developed messaging-security and threat-intelligence systems for email providers, internet service providers, and mobile carriers. Proofpoint acquired the company in 2017 and continues to offer Cloudmark-branded products.

Developed AI tools for planning drug research, navigating clinical strategy, and finding new biological opportunities before its team joined Anthropic's life-sciences group in 2026.

Cogitai is an AI startup founded in 2015 by Mark Ring, Satinder Singh, and Peter Stone that develops continual and reinforcement learning platforms for enterprise applications, with Sony as a major investor.

German AI startup founded in 2010 by Martin Riedmiller as a "laboratory for learning machines," focused on self-learning systems before Riedmiller joined DeepMind.

Robotics company (Cobot) founded by Brad Porter, former VP of robotics at Amazon, and based in Santa Clara. Builds Proxie, a collaborative mobile robot designed to work safely alongside people in warehouses and hospitals.

Colorado School of Mines is a public research university founded in 1874 in Golden, Colorado, specializing in engineering, applied science, and resource extraction; it is one of the oldest mineral engineering schools in the United States.

Columbia Engineering (the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science) is Columbia University's engineering school, founded in 1864 in New York City as the School of Mines and now one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States, with programs spanning computer science, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, and applied mathematics.

comma.ai

Self-driving car company founded in 2015 by George Hotz. Develops openpilot, an open-source driver-assistance system that adds semi-autonomous driving to a wide range of existing cars.

Community-management software company, founded in 2019, whose "community operating system" ties together a company's online-community data; later pivoted to a warm-intros network.

Deep-learning research and consulting outfit led by Dan Cireșan, a pioneer of multi-column deep neural networks and former researcher at the Swiss AI lab IDSIA. Works on neural networks and biomedical image analysis.

Consensys develops software and infrastructure for Ethereum and decentralized financial applications. Its former space initiative opened Planetary Resources intellectual property and incubated the citizen-powered TruSat project.

Contextual AI

Startup building retrieval-augmented generation systems for enterprises, founded by the originators of RAG.

Streaming-analytics company, founded in 2006 out of Stanford research, that measures and optimises video-streaming quality.