Organizations shaping AI

Inceptive

Biotech startup applying deep learning to design RNA molecules and programmable medicines.

Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study is an independent research institute in Princeton . It supports theoretical research across mathematics, natural sciences, social science, and historical studies, and has long been a home for foundational work in computing, physics, and mathematics.

AGI research startup founded by John Carmack.

Lightning AI

Lightning AI is the company behind the open-source PyTorch Lightning framework to simplify training and deploying deep-learning models.

Lila Sciences

Startup applying AI to scientific discovery and autonomous laboratories.

Mercor

Mercor is a San Francisco-based AI recruiting and talent-marketplace startup founded by Thiel Fellows Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha. It uses large language models to vet candidates and supplies human experts for AI training-data work.

Modal

Cloud platform for running Python code and AI workloads serverlessly.

Ndea

AGI research lab founded by François Chollet — creator of Keras and the ARC-AGI benchmark — and Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier. Pursues artificial general intelligence by combining deep learning with program synthesis.

AI startup building models specialised for function calling and agentic reasoning. Acquired by Nvidia.

Private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, founded in 1898 and known for its cooperative-education model.

Nuro

Nuro is an autonomous-delivery company founded by former Waymo engineers Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu, building small driverless vehicles for local goods delivery.

Oracle

Oracle is an enterprise software company founded by Larry Ellison and known for its database systems. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has become a major host for large-scale AI training workloads.

Oregon State University

Public land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, founded in 1868.

Physical Superintelligence

AI-for-science company developing systems that reason about, computationally validate, and help commercialize new physics; creator of the open-source Get Physics Done research agent.

Image-sharing and discovery company whose engineering applies machine learning to visual search and recommendations.

Public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, founded in 1869 and known for engineering.

Private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, USA, founded in 1908 and known for its rigorous, self-directed curriculum.

Safe Superintelligence Inc.

AI safety-focused research company founded by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy. Focused exclusively on building safe superintelligence, with no products or near-term commercial pressure.

Salesforce's AI research organization develops language models, agents and methods for trusted enterprise AI. Its work has included large-scale language modeling, controllable generation, conversational systems, causal inference and benchmarks for agents operating in business software.

Skild AI

Skild AI is a robotics foundation-model company headquartered in Pittsburgh founded by Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta. It develops the Skild Brain, a general-purpose model that runs across diverse robot hardware.

Sourceress developed machine-learning systems for recruiting, using role-specific models to identify candidates and generate personalized outreach. Its founders later became prominent builders and investors in AI systems and infrastructure.

Together AI

Cloud platform and research company for open large language models, offering training and inference infrastructure.

AI research lab and product company founded by Ronak Malde, Michael Elabd, and Arjun Karanam, building a platform for "continual learning" — turning user corrections and real product usage into post-training signal so deployed agents keep improving. Backed by a $15M seed led by Conviction and Bessemer.

University of Florida

Public research university in Gainesville, Florida, USA.