Organizations
Explore companies, research labs, universities, nonprofits, and public institutions across the AI ecosystem.
Essential AIAI startup co-founded by Transformer first author Ashish Vaswani. Vaswani's LinkedIn profile shows his Essential AI role ending in June 2026 and a new NVIDIA computer-scientist role beginning the same month, consistent with an NVIDIA acqui-hire.
EtchedAI semiconductor company building frontier inference clusters through co-designed chips, racks, software, and manufacturing. Etched says its A0 silicon has returned from TSMC N4P, it has raised $800M across four financings, and it is preparing first rack shipments to fulfill more than $1B in customer demand. Investors include @Geoffrey Hinton, @Andrej Karpathy, @Fei-Fei Li, @Noam Brown, @Jerry Tworek, @Arthur Mensch, and more.
General IntuitionFrontier AI research lab spun out of the gameplay-clip platform Medal. Trains agents on large volumes of game video to develop spatial-temporal reasoning, with a $134M seed round.
J.P. Morgan is the investment-banking arm of JPMorgan Chase, one of the largest financial institutions in the world.
Liquid AIMIT-spinout startup building efficient 'liquid' foundation models based on alternative neural architectures.
Luma AIStartup building generative video and 3D models, known for the Dream Machine video-generation system.
Moonlake AIBuilds multimodal world models and simulation infrastructure for physical AI, generating structured, editable 3D environments with geometry, articulation, and physics for robotics, digital twins, and embodied-agent training.
OpenAI FoundationNon-profit foundation affiliated with OpenAI, supporting work around AI resilience and public-interest AI initiatives.
PerplexityAI search company building answer engines that combine web retrieval, citations, and conversational interfaces.
Physical IntelligenceSan Francisco startup developing general-purpose foundation models for robotics—control policies intended to transfer across many robots and tasks.
UC DavisPublic research university in California with active machine-learning and AI research.
University of California campus with strong research in computer science, machine learning, systems, vision, and computational science.
Public research university in New York and a site of early handwriting- and pattern-recognition research.
AI developer-tools company behind the Windsurf agentic IDE and the Codeium coding assistant, focused on AI-assisted software engineering.
World LabsStartup founded in 2024 by Fei-Fei Li building 'large world models' that understand and generate 3D spatial environments.
XSocial-media and technology company formerly known as Twitter, acquired by Elon Musk and rebranded as X. It is closely tied to xAI/Grok distribution, data, and product integration.
AI Now InstitutePolicy research institute studying the social, political, and economic impacts of AI, with a focus on accountability, power, labor, and public-interest governance.
Alignment Research CenterAlignment Research Center develops methods for keeping powerful AI systems helpful and honest as their capabilities grow. Its work helped define scalable alignment and eliciting latent knowledge—ways to test whether models know more than they reveal—and its former evaluations team became METR.
AxiomAI mathematics startup building systems for formal reasoning, theorem proving, and mathematical problem solving.
Historic American research lab (now Nokia Bell Labs) behind foundational advances in information theory, computing, and machine learning.
Chan Zuckerberg InitiativePhilanthropic organization funding science, education, and technology, including AI-enabled tools for biomedical research.
Core AutomationAI research lab founded in 2025 by Jerry Tworek, a former OpenAI research lead, aiming to build a highly automated lab that develops new learning algorithms and architectures beyond large-scale pretraining.
Discovery LoopDiscovery Loop is a public benefit corporation building systems that automate work across machine learning, science, and engineering. Its mission is to accelerate technical and scientific discovery by making AI capable of solving important research and engineering problems.
Game and 3D technology company behind Unreal Engine, an important platform for simulation, synthetic data, virtual worlds, and interactive AI systems.