Organizations shaping AI

AI robotics company that pursued brain-inspired intelligence and later focused on robotic automation before being acquired by Intrinsic.

Wharton

Business school of the University of Pennsylvania, with faculty and research spanning economics, statistics, operations, finance, and AI-adjacent decision science.

Williams College

Selective private liberal-arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

a16z

Andreessen Horowitz, known as a16z, invests from seed through growth across AI, enterprise software, infrastructure, biotechnology, consumer technology, fintech and crypto. Its operating teams also provide portfolio companies with recruiting, policy and go-to-market support.

Adaption Labs

AI startup founded by Sara Hooker, former head of Cohere Labs, with Sudip Roy. Builds smaller, more efficient models that adapt cheaply to the task at hand rather than relying on ever-larger scale.

Anchovi Labs developed software for automatically organizing and browsing personal photo collections. Dropbox acquired the small computer-vision startup in 2012, bringing its founders and image-understanding work into Dropbox as photo management became central to cloud storage.

AI R&D lab founded in 2023 by Jeremy Howard (co-founder of Kaggle and fast.ai) and Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup). A fully remote lab that turns foundational research into practical end-user AI products.

Anyscale

Anyscale commercializes Ray, the open-source system that lets developers distribute AI workloads across many computers without rewriting them from scratch. Its platform is widely used for data processing, model training, reinforcement learning, and serving models at production scale.

Nonprofit biomedical research institute founded in 2021 by Silvana Konermann, Patrick Hsu, and Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe), in partnership with Stanford, UCSF, and UC Berkeley. Funds scientists on long-term grants to study complex human diseases.

Ava Labs

Ava Labs is a New York-based blockchain company founded in 2018 by Emin Gün Sirer and others, and is the team behind the Avalanche blockchain protocol.

Bloomberg LP is a New York-based financial data and media company founded in 1981 by Michael Bloomberg, providing financial software, data, and news to financial professionals worldwide.

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm founded in Boston in 1963 by Bruce Henderson, advising corporations and governments on strategy, operations, and organizational transformation across more than 50 countries.

Boston University is a private research university whose AI work spans machine learning, language, vision, robotics, health, science and trustworthy computing. Its Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences connects these methods across the university.

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, founded in 1948 as the first Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university in the United States, named for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

Broad Institute brings together researchers from MIT, Harvard and partner hospitals to develop genomic methods, biological datasets and computational tools for understanding disease and advancing medicine.

Startup building real-time voice and audio generation models based on state-space architectures.

Center for Humane Technology

Nonprofit founded by Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin, and Randy Fernando to realign technology — social media and AI — with human well-being. Known for the "Your Undivided Attention" podcast and the documentary The Social Dilemma.

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Policy research center at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. Produces nonpartisan analysis on the security implications of emerging technologies, especially AI and advanced computing.

Chai Discovery

AI biology company building foundation models for molecular structure prediction and drug-discovery workflows.

Clubhouse is a San Francisco-based audio social network founded in March 2020 by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, enabling users to join live voice chat rooms on a wide range of topics; it reached a $4 billion valuation at its peak in 2021.

Liberal-arts college home to the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, established as the first cross-disciplinary AI institute at a liberal-arts college. Colby also offers a computer-science concentration in artificial intelligence covering neural networks, interpretable AI, and interactive systems.

Collective Intelligence Project

Research and governance incubator founded in 2023 by Divya Siddarth, Saffron Huang, and Jasmine Wang. Develops democratic processes — such as "alignment assemblies" — for steering transformative technologies like AI toward the collective good.

Conduit Intelligence

Conduit Intelligence is developing a non-invasive thought-to-text system for high-bandwidth brain-to-computer communication. Its software uses neural data collected through a headset to predict and complete text while a person types.

Covariant

Robotics AI company developing foundation models and robot-learning systems for warehouse automation and industrial manipulation.