Organizations shaping AI

The Bot Company

Develops general-purpose household robots intended to handle routine physical tasks. Its team combines experience from Cruise, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and large-scale consumer products.

The Linux Foundation

Open-source consortium that supports shared technology projects, industry standards, developer communities, and research into the economic value of open digital infrastructure.

Public research university in Columbus, Ohio, USA, founded in 1870 — one of the largest universities in the United States.

Company founded in 2023 by George Hotz to "commoditize the petaflop." Develops the open-source tinygrad deep-learning framework and sells tinybox AI compute systems built on commodity GPUs.

ThrivePal

Develops science-based AI coaching for personal growth and well-being, offering tailored plans, reflective tools, and support for individual goals and relationships.

Short-video social-media platform owned by ByteDance, launched internationally in 2017.

Tomato.ai develops real-time speech processing for contact centers, including accent softening and noise cancellation intended to make conversations clearer while preserving each speaker's voice.

Tome developed an AI-assisted presentation and storytelling product before pivoting toward sales software. Its presentation service was discontinued in April 2025 as the team moved in a different product direction.

Topsy built search and analytics tools for social-media activity. Apple acquired the company in 2013 and shut down its standalone service in 2015.

Quantitative trading firm, founded in 2009, headquartered in New York.

Nonprofit research group based in Berkeley and led by Owain Evans. Studies truthfulness, situational awareness, deception, and hidden reasoning in large language models.

Company founded by Jonathan Siddharth. Began as a remote developer marketplace and pivoted to supplying coding and reasoning training data that frontier labs use to train their models.

Twenty Labs

Applied research and engineering firm building AI-native products. Its first product, Compound, is an AI analyst for finance.

Two Sigma is a quantitative investment and trading firm that applies scientific research, data engineering and machine learning to financial markets. Its AI Core team develops and deploys shared machine-learning capabilities across the firm.

TypeSafe AI

TypeSafe AI develops language models intended for reliable, low-latency automation that can operate inside production systems without continuous human supervision.

U.S. Department of State

The U.S. Department of State leads American diplomacy, advises the president on foreign policy, represents the country abroad, and provides services to U.S. citizens overseas.

Ubiquity6 was a San Francisco-based augmented reality startup founded in 2017 by Anjney Midha, known for its Display.land 3D-capture app and the social product Backyard. It was acquired by Discord in 2021.

The law school of the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley Law), in Berkeley, California, USA.

UC Merced

Public research university in Merced, California, USA, founded in 2005 — the newest campus of the University of California system.

Online learning platform, founded in 2010, offering courses taught by independent instructors.

Unconventional AI

Unconventional AI is building energy-efficient AI systems by rethinking the foundations of computing. The company describes its work as bringing biology-scale efficiency to artificial intelligence through expertise spanning AI systems, analog circuits, computing theory, and neuroscience.

The executive department of the US federal government responsible for the armed forces and national security, headquartered at the Pentagon.

A White House technology unit that deploys engineers, designers, product specialists and other practitioners across federal agencies to modernize public services and improve how government technology is delivered.

Undergraduate service academy educating future Navy and Marine Corps officers. Its robotics work covers autonomous marine, aerial, and ground vehicles, computer vision, control, and human–robot interaction.