Organizations shaping AI

Alphabet's moonshot robotics project, spun out of X in 2021 to build general-purpose learning robots; wound down in 2023.

EvolutionaryScale

Frontier AI-for-biology research lab founded in 2024 by former Meta researchers Alexander Rives, Tom Sercu, and Sal Candido. Builds the ESM family of protein language models, including ESM3, which can generate novel proteins.

Talent company, founded in 2019 and backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund, that builds remote data-science and machine-learning teams from Latin America.

FAR.AI

AI safety research nonprofit founded by Adam Gleave and Karl Berzins, based in Berkeley. Works on adversarial robustness, model evaluation, interpretability, and alignment, and convenes the AI safety research community.

Fidian

Research-driven product company building verification and governance tools for AI agents, checking their decisions against human-readable specifications during development and production.

Figma

Collaborative product-design platform behind Figma Design, FigJam, Slides, and tools for prototyping, developer handoff, and team workflows.

Data-labeling and crowdsourcing company (formerly CrowdFlower), founded in 2007 by Lukas Biewald; acquired by Appen in 2019.

Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI operates an inference cloud for deploying and optimizing open and custom generative models. Its platform focuses on production serving, fine-tuning and model routing designed to improve application speed, quality and cost.

Flatiron Institute

The internal research division of the Simons Foundation, advancing scientific research through computational methods across centers for computational astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience, and quantum physics.

Fleet AI

Creates simulated software environments and real-world tasks for training and evaluating AI agents, with a focus on human supervision and large-scale human–AI collaboration.

Connects freight forwarding, customs brokerage, fulfillment, and shipment data in one logistics platform. Its AI systems support routing, supply-chain planning, translation, and automated customs-compliance checks.

Public research university in Florida, USA (Florida State University), founded in 1851, located in Tallahassee.

Flourish

Flourish combines experimental neuroscience with AI model development. Its Cortex program aims to build continually learning systems informed by the brain's computational efficiency, using results from wet-lab experiments to guide model design.

Foresite Capital is a healthcare and life-sciences investment firm using a data-science-driven approach to back companies at the intersection of biology, medicine, and big data. Its network is relevant to AI-enabled drug discovery, diagnostics, and computational biology startups.

Foresite Capital incubator and venture studio focused on data-driven healthcare and life-sciences company creation.

Foundation for American Innovation

"A think tank focused on championing the technology, talent, and ideas essential to American prosperity, security, and flourishing."

Frontier Model Forum

Brings members Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI together to advance frontier AI safety and security through shared standards, safety research, and information-sharing on high-impact risks.

Nonprofit building AI agents to automate research in biology and other complex sciences.

Futurism

Publishes reporting and analysis on emerging science and technology, including artificial intelligence, space, energy, transport, and medicine; it now operates as a Recurrent Ventures media brand.

American multinational conglomerate (General Electric), founded in 1892; since split into separate aerospace, healthcare and energy companies.

General Agents

Startup building Ace, an AI agent that controls a user's computer to carry out tasks.

General Magic created the Magic Cap operating system and Telescript language for handheld communicators, laying the groundwork for many smartphone concepts.

Generate:Biomedicines

Biotechnology company developing protein therapeutics through an integrated platform that combines machine learning, biological engineering, and automated experimentation.

AI drug-discovery company (Genesis Therapeutics) in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose GEMS platform combines deep learning and physics-based simulation for small-molecule discovery.