Organizations
Explore companies, research labs, universities, nonprofits, and public institutions across the AI ecosystem.
Hugging FaceHugging Face builds open tools and infrastructure for machine learning. Its Hub supports versioned models, datasets, and interactive applications, while libraries including Transformers connect researchers and developers with training, evaluation, and deployment workflows.
Microsoft AIMicrosoft AI advances Copilot and Microsoft’s other consumer AI products and research, bringing product, engineering, design, and research teams together under CEO Mustafa Suleyman.
Georgia TechGeorgia Tech links foundational machine learning with a major embodied-AI and robotics ecosystem, translating research into healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and autonomous systems.
University of PennsylvaniaPenn is especially influential in robotics through the GRASP Laboratory, pairing work in perception, control, and autonomy with broader research in machine learning, vision, language, and health.
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignIllinois has a decades-long AI research tradition spanning machine learning, language, vision, machine listening, and robotics, with major programs applying AI to agriculture and molecular discovery.
University of MichiganMichigan's AI Lab and Robotics Department combine foundational work in machine learning, language, and vision with embodied systems and applications in healthcare, mobility, and scientific discovery.
Brown UniversityBrown's AI community is notable for integrative and embodied approaches to general intelligence, combining reinforcement learning, planning, robotics, vision, and human-robot interaction.
TeslaElectric-vehicle, autonomy, robotics, and energy company led by Elon Musk. Its AI work spans Autopilot/FSD, robotaxi, Optimus, computer vision, simulation, and large-scale training infrastructure.
The University of Texas at AustinFlagship public research university in Texas with a top-ranked computer-science department.
IBMIBM has advanced artificial intelligence from early research and Deep Blue through Watson to its current enterprise AI portfolio. Its work includes Granite foundation models, the watsonx development and governance platform, AI agents, specialized infrastructure, and research on trustworthy AI and scientific discovery.
Scale AIScale AI provides data, evaluation, deployment, and reliability infrastructure for frontier AI labs, enterprises, and government customers. It remained an independent company after Meta’s significant 2025 minority investment, when founder Alexandr Wang left to join Meta and Jason Droege became CEO.
StripeStripe provides financial infrastructure for internet businesses and AI companies. Its work on agentic commerce includes the Agentic Commerce Protocol, Shared Payment Tokens, and the Machine Payments Protocol, alongside billing, fraud prevention, stablecoin, and usage-based revenue tools.
UCLAUCLA has been especially influential in probabilistic and causal reasoning, alongside current research in machine learning, language, optimization, and biomedical AI.
Yale UniversityYale connects machine-learning foundations, computer vision, and social and embodied robotics with cross-disciplinary applications in biomedicine, law, and cultural preservation.
UC San DiegoPublic research university in California strong in machine learning, NLP, and systems.
University of Southern CaliforniaPrivate research university in Los Angeles with notable AI, NLP, and computer-vision research, including the Information Sciences Institute.
Amazon Web ServicesCloud-computing division of Amazon, launched in 2006. The world's largest cloud provider, offering compute, storage, and a broad suite of AI and machine-learning services such as SageMaker and Bedrock.
Duke UniversityPrivate research university in Durham, North Carolina, with strong interpretable-machine-learning and statistics groups.
SalesforceEnterprise software company with an AI research division.
UberRide-hailing company whose former Uber AI Labs worked on deep learning and self-driving research.
University of ChicagoPrivate research university known for strengths in statistics, machine learning, and economics; affiliated with the Toyota Technological Institute.
University of MarylandPublic research university in College Park with strong computer-vision and NLP programs.
QuoraQuestion-and-answer website; it also runs Poe, a platform providing access to many AI chatbots.
Center for AI SafetySan Francisco non-profit focused on reducing societal-scale risks from AI through research and field-building.