Organizations shaping AI

Corridor

AI security startup building tools for software vulnerability discovery, bug-bounty triage, and product-security workflows.

Cosmos Institute

Nonprofit supporting research, fellowships, grants, and educational programs that connect philosophy with the development of AI, with a focus on human autonomy and flourishing.

The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a U.S. federal agency within the Executive Office of the President, established by the Employment Act of 1946, that provides the President with objective economic analysis and policy recommendations on domestic and international economic issues.

Cresta

Contact-center AI company founded by Zayd Enam, Tim Shi, and Sebastian Thrun out of the Stanford AI Lab. Builds a generative-AI platform that coaches and assists customer-service agents in real time.

Crusoe

Vertically integrated computing company that develops energy sources, builds and operates data centers, and provides cloud infrastructure for training and serving models.

Neural-interface startup, founded in 2015, developing wristband EMG controllers; acquired by Facebook/Meta in 2019.

Cypress Semiconductor was a San Jose semiconductor company known for embedded-system chips including NOR flash, SRAM, F-RAM, PSoC microcontrollers, USB, Bluetooth Low Energy, and IoT connectivity products. Infineon acquired Cypress in 2020.

Dataiku

Dataiku is a data-science and machine-learning platform company in Paris, offering an end-to-end environment for building and deploying analytics and AI.

Decart

Develops low-latency generative systems spanning model optimization, live video transformation and interactive world models. Its technology supports media applications and simulation for robotics, autonomous vehicles and other physical systems.

Deep Cogito

Develops open-weight Cogito language models that can answer directly or reason before responding. Its research explores iterative self-improvement—training models to internalize useful reasoning rather than relying only on longer inference-time search.

Palo Alto AI company offering business chatbots, analytics and documentation tools; acquired by AI-chip company Groq in 2024 to launch GroqCloud.

Denali Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing medicines for serious diseases affecting the brain and body. Its work centers on barrier-crossing biologics, including its TransportVehicle platform for delivering therapies across biological barriers such as the blood-brain barrier.

Descript is a startup founded in 2017 that builds AI-powered audio and video editing software, including transcription-based editing and voice synthesis.

Developed collaborative knowledge-discovery software that analyzed working documents, identified entities, and recommended related information for defense, intelligence, and financial-services users. Salesforce acquired the company in 2019.

Visual-effects and digital-production studio, founded in 1993 by James Cameron, Stan Winston and Scott Ross.

Disney

American mass-media and entertainment conglomerate (The Walt Disney Company), founded in 1923.

Independent research institute founded by Timnit Gebru studying the harms and ethics of AI, free from Big Tech influence.

Duolingo builds mobile learning products, best known for its language-learning app and assessment platform, using adaptive exercises and product experimentation to make education broadly accessible.

The sports-game division of Electronic Arts, publisher of franchises such as EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA) and Madden NFL.

Earth Species Project develops open AI models and research tools to study and decode animal communication, connecting machine learning with bioacoustics, behavioral ecology, and conservation.

Elastic

Elastic develops search, observability, and security software around Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, including tools for analyzing application performance and infrastructure behavior.

Emergence AI

Agentic-AI startup founded by Satya Nitta and former IBM researchers, building autonomous web agents for the enterprise.

Encode

Youth-led AI policy nonprofit (formerly Encode Justice) founded by Sneha Revanur. Mobilizes young people worldwide to advocate for safe, equitable AI and has contributed to AI legislation in the US.

Energy

Energy is an AI workspace that turns requests into finished work. Its specialized assistants gather context across browsers, inboxes, files, and connected tools, complete one-off tasks or recurring workflows, and return the results for review with an audit trail of their actions.