Organizations shaping AI

Startup building open video-generation models, known for the Mochi model.

Public research university in Fairfax, Virginia, USA, founded in 1972 — the largest public university in Virginia.

Non-profit charity evaluator, founded in 2007, that researches and recommends high-impact giving opportunities in global health and development.

AI design studio, founded in 2021 by former Instagram and Facebook staff (including Thomas Dimson), that built creative tools and the game Biomes; acquired by OpenAI in 2023 as its first acquisition.

Gradio

Gradio is an open-source Python library for building machine-learning demos and web interfaces; it was acquired by Hugging Face in 2021.

Open-source observability and monitoring company behind the Grafana dashboards, founded in 2014.

GRAIL is a healthcare company developing multi-cancer early-detection blood tests. Its Galleri test uses signals in blood to screen for many cancer types, making the company part of the wider computational biology and diagnostics landscape around large-scale health data.

H2O.ai is a company in Mountain View that builds open-source and commercial machine-learning and AutoML platforms for enterprises.

Haize Labs

AI safety startup founded in 2024 by Leonard Tang, Steve Li, and Richard Liu. Builds tools to automatically red-team and stress-test LLM systems, surfacing failure modes for customers including frontier AI labs.

Private liberal arts college in Clinton, New York, USA, founded in 1793.

AI hardware and personal-AI startup founded by Figure AI founder Brett Adcock, building personalized AI systems intended to run across custom hardware and digital products.

Helm.ai

Autonomous-driving software company, founded in 2016, developing AI for self-driving vehicles.

Generative-AI inference startup, founded in 2023 in Bellevue, Washington, optimising GPU inference for AI models; acquired by NVIDIA.

Stanford public-policy research center whose fellows study economic prosperity, national security, democratic governance, and how emerging technologies affect free societies.

American video-game developer, founded in 1991, creators of Doom, Quake and the id Tech engines.

Private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA, founded in 1890, known for engineering, architecture and design.

Early web search engine and directory, launched in 1994 and later acquired by Walt Disney's Go.com.

Fellowship programme, founded in 2012, that trained scientists and engineers for careers in data science and AI; it ceased operations in 2020.

insitro

Drug-discovery company applying machine learning to biology, founded by Daphne Koller.

Institute for Law & AI

Produces practical legal research on how governments and institutions should respond to increasingly capable AI systems. Its work addresses regulatory design, institutional authority, security, liability and the rule of law.

Institute for Responsible Superintelligence

Develops formal, safe-by-design foundations for superintelligence, including precise safety objectives, mechanisms with analyzable guarantees, and proofs of concept that frontier AI developers can evaluate and adopt.

AI-safety research lab founded by Cursor co-founder Arvid Lunnemark, focused on building secure and trustworthy AI systems.

Intel Labs is Intel's global research organization, working across artificial intelligence, compute, graphics, intelligent edge systems, programming and design, security, and privacy. Its AI work spans model systems, neuromorphic computing, hardware-software co-design, and future compute architectures.

Customer-service AI company, founded in 1982, providing conversational voice and virtual-assistant systems for enterprises.