Company🇺🇸 Redmond
Microsoft46 people
Microsoft develops and deploys AI through Microsoft AI, Azure, Copilot, and product teams across its software and cloud platforms. Microsoft Research conducts foundational work across models, systems, human-computer interaction, scientific discovery, health, and responsible AI.
Company🇫🇷 France
AMI Labs13 people
Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs is Yann LeCun's AI startup focused on world models and alternatives to token-prediction-centric language models.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Recursive9 people
Recursive is Richard Socher’s research lab for building AI systems that can improve the process of AI research itself. Its focus is the feedback loop between generating hypotheses, running experiments and learning from results—a direct attempt to accelerate advances in model development.
Non-profit🇺🇸 United States
METR8 people
METR measures what frontier AI agents can do in realistic, extended tasks rather than short benchmark questions. Its widely followed time-horizon evaluations estimate the length of software and research tasks models can complete, giving labs and policymakers a concrete view of rapidly changing autonomous capability.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Adept AI5 people
Adept builds multimodal agents that understand screens and carry out multi-step work across business software. Its ACT-1 model was an early attempt to turn natural-language instructions into clicks, typing, and other computer actions. In 2024, Amazon hired Adept's co-founders and part of its team and licensed its models, data, and agent technology; Adept continued under new leadership with an enterprise-agent focus.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Engram5 people
AI research lab building models that learn from a user or organization's private context, including long-running workspace knowledge and shared document corpora. Launched with $98M from General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Factory, Modern, Amplify Partners, Neo, SV Angel, and others.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Essential AI5 people
AI 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.
Company🇬🇧 London
Inherent4 people
AI research lab building agents that can discover new knowledge and exploring how human scientists and self-improving AI systems can work together on open-ended research.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Mechanize4 people
AI agents company focused on automating economically valuable computer work and building systems that can operate across software environments.
Company🇺🇸 San Francisco
Mirendil4 people
San Francisco AI startup building tools to democratize frontier AI R&D and help scientists develop specialized AI systems. Formally announced with a 20-person founding team drawn from Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and other frontier institutions.
Company🇺🇸 Palo Alto
River AI4 people
AI startup launched by Igor Babuschkin and co-founders to build personal AI owned and shaped by users.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Vercept4 people
Vercept developed computer-use agents that could see a user's screen and carry out tasks across desktop applications. In February 2026 its team joined Anthropic to continue work on AI for personal computing.
Company🇺🇸 San Francisco
Applied Compute3 people
AI startup building enterprise-specific agents and infrastructure for training, deploying, and continuously improving models on company workflows and data. In April 2026 it announced an $80 million round led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing total funding to $160 million.
Company🇫🇷 France
H Company3 people
Paris-based startup founded in 2024 building AI agents and foundation models, started by former Google DeepMind researchers.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Salesforce Research3 people
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.
Company🇬🇧 London
Cosine2 people
British AI startup building Genie and frontier software-engineering models, with a focus on AI coding agents and sovereign AI deployments. Cosine is based in London and has said its coding model is being trained on the UK's Isambard-AI supercomputer.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Decagon2 people
Decagon is a San Francisco-based startup building AI agents that automate enterprise customer support across chat, voice, email, and SMS.
Company🇬🇧 London
General Reasoning2 people
London AI research company developing agents and training methods based on reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and reward design.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Imbue2 people
Imbue is an AI company formerly known as Generally Intelligent, founded by Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht. It builds AI tools and agents intended to help people think, create, and code, with products such as mngr, Bouncer, and Sculptor. Its research and policy work focuses on reasoning systems, coding agents, and user-controlled AI.
Company🇸🇬 Singapore
Manus AI2 people
General-purpose AI agent developed by Butterfly Effect (also known as Monica), founded by Xiao Hong. Manus autonomously executes multi-step tasks on the web; the company is headquartered in Singapore.
Company🇨🇦 Toronto
Oak Lab2 people
Research lab developing learning algorithms for agents that learn continually from experience, plan in real time, and pursue goals in large, changing worlds.
Company🇫🇷 France
Owkin2 people
"Building the one AI Scientist, purpose-built for biomedical breakthroughs."
Company🇺🇸 United States
Sierra2 people
Enterprise AI company building conversational agents for customer service and business workflows.
Company
Standard Intelligence2 people
Standard Intelligence is an AI company building general-learning and computer-action models, including systems for controlling computers and learning from interaction.