Organizations shaping AI

Nextdoor

Hyperlocal social-networking service for neighbourhoods.

Niantic is an augmented-reality and real-world games company known for Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, Monster Hunter Now, Campfire, and Wayfarer. Its products combine maps, location data, computer vision, and mobile interaction to build shared real-world experiences.

The US National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health and the lead federal agency for mental-health research.

Public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (NC State), founded in 1887.

Nous Research

Open-source AI research company building the Hermes model family and distributed training infrastructure such as DiStrO and Psyche.

Platform for interactive data visualization and notebooks, founded in 2016 by Mike Bostock (creator of D3.js) and others.

Machine-learning deployment startup, founded in 2019, commercialising the Apache TVM compiler; acquired by NVIDIA in 2024.

OpenCog Foundation

Open-source AGI project founded by Ben Goertzel. Develops a cognitive architecture — including the AtomSpace knowledge store and the Hyperon framework — that integrates symbolic and probabilistic AI toward human-level general intelligence.

Osmo

"Digitizing the sense of smell for human health and happiness."

Non-profit research lab, founded by Andreas Stuhlmüller and Jungwon Byun, building AI tools to support reasoning and research (creators of the Elicit research assistant).

Parallel builds web infrastructure for AI agents, offering APIs that search, retrieve and monitor public web information for research, enrichment and other data-intensive agent workflows.

PauseAI US

Organizes a nationwide grassroots movement advocating for an international pause in frontier AI development, with local groups that meet lawmakers, hold public events, and engage the media on catastrophic AI risks.

Early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Pamela Vagata (a founding member of OpenAI and former AI lead at Stripe) and Keith Adams. Backs technically deep startups building foundational AI and developer systems.

LLM search-engine startup for law firms founded by Devin Kim.

Persona AI

"Developing the next generation of humanoid robots purpose-built for heavy industry."

Accounting and bookkeeping startup, founded in 2017, providing finance back-office services to startups.

Natural-language search startup, founded in 2005, acquired by Microsoft in 2008 to power Bing's semantic search.

Seattle-based health-AI startup, co-founded by Leon Gatys, building a biomedical foundation model that predicts health outcomes from smartphone and wearable signals.

San Mateo AI startup co-founded by Lubomir Bourdev — a founding member of Facebook AI Research — and Hamid Palo. Uses computer vision and language models to read and understand construction drawings across a project.

Profluent

AI-for-biology company founded by Ali Madani, formerly of Salesforce Research. Trains generative protein language models for programmable biology; released OpenCRISPR-1, the first AI-designed, open-source gene editor.

Proximal

Builds training data, evaluation environments, and open benchmarks for autonomous coding agents, treating dataset design as a research and systems problem rather than a labor marketplace.

Code-integrity company (formerly CodiumAI) founded in 2022 by Itamar Friedman and Dedy Kredo. Builds AI agents that generate tests, review pull requests, and assist with writing code across the software development lifecycle.

Builds machine-learning and decision systems for enterprise and public-sector applications including pricing, insurance claims, forecasting, and healthcare.

The Rensselaer AI and Reasoning (RAIR) Laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, directed by Selmer Bringsjord. Focuses on logic-based AI, formal and machine reasoning, and the philosophical foundations of cognition.