Organizations shaping AI

The North American R&D arm of Samsung Electronics, conducting research in AI, communications and devices.

Schmidt Futures

Philanthropic initiative supporting science, technology, and talent programs, including work connected to AI, computing, and public-interest technology. Founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt.

Scout AI

Scout AI develops Fury, a vision-language-action system that translates commanders' objectives into plans for coordinating autonomous ground and aerial vehicles. Its work focuses on adapting existing military robots to operate together with less manual control.

Semiconductor and AI research and consulting firm founded in 2020 by Dylan Patel. Publishes widely read analysis of the chip supply chain, data centers, and AI hardware through its newsletter and research service.

Cybersecurity company known for autonomous endpoint security, cloud security, and AI-driven threat detection.

A major technology investor whose portfolio and company-building network span frontier models, chips, infrastructure, developer tools and AI applications. Its AI Ascent programme also connects founders and researchers across the emerging ecosystem.

Autonomous sidewalk delivery-robot company, originally spun out of Uber's Postmates; publicly traded (Nasdaq: SERV).

ServiceNow is an enterprise SaaS company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, providing cloud workflow automation for IT, HR, and customer service.

Cryptocurrency exchange platform, founded in 2014 by Erik Voorhees, for trading digital assets.

Early-college liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA, part of Bard College, admitting students after the tenth or eleventh grade.

Global equity investor focused on AI.

Slack is a workplace messaging and collaboration platform founded in 2013; it was acquired by Salesforce in 2021.

Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI is a data-centric AI company spun out of the Stanford AI Lab and known for programmatic and weakly supervised data labeling.

Softmax

San Francisco AI alignment startup founded in 2025 by Emmett Shear (co-founder of Twitch and briefly interim CEO of OpenAI), Adam Goldstein, and David Bloomin. Researches "organic alignment," modeling how agents cooperate while keeping distinct identities.

Sophont

Medical-AI startup founded by Tanishq Abraham and Paul Scotti. Builds open, multimodal medical foundation models that reason across imaging, clinical notes, and lab data to assist clinicians.

Cisco-owned security and observability business whose data platform turns machine telemetry into operational insights, supporting threat detection, troubleshooting, and AI-assisted operations across enterprise systems.

Square

American financial-services and digital-payments company founded by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey; the parent company is now named Block.

Maryland's public honors college, offering undergraduate liberal arts and sciences education. Its computer science program spans algorithms, systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, data science, cybersecurity, and human-computer interaction.

The law school of Stanford University in Stanford, California, USA.

Suno

AI music-generation company in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Mikey Shulman, Keenan Freyberg, Georg Kucsko, and Martin Camacho. Builds tools that generate full songs, with vocals and instrumentation, from text prompts.

California's highest court reviews questions of state law and oversees the development and consistency of legal precedent across the state's judicial system.

Surge AI

"Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of humanity — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of breathtaking brilliance."

Organisation that administers the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF), which makes grants to projects working on global catastrophic risk, including AI safety.

Research-driven company developing machine-learning research, open-source tools, education and practical products for structured and tabular data.