Organizations
Explore companies, research labs, universities, nonprofits, and public institutions across the AI ecosystem.
Stability AIStability AI develops generative models and creative tools across image, video, 3D, and audio. Its model families include Stable Diffusion and Stable Audio, with downloadable weights, developer APIs, and commercial options for customized or self-hosted deployment.
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.
DiscordDiscord is a voice, video, and text communication platform founded in 2015, originally aimed at gamers and now widely used by online communities.
ElevenLabsVoice AI company building speech synthesis, voice cloning, dubbing, and audio-generation tools for creators and enterprises.
SesameConversational voice AI company founded by Brendan Iribe (co-founder of Oculus VR), Ankit Kumar, and Ryan Brown. Builds emotionally expressive voice companions and lightweight smart eyewear.
Spotify is an audio-streaming service founded in 2006 in Stockholm by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It relies heavily on machine learning for music recommendation and personalization.
AssemblyAI is a San Francisco-based AI company that provides speech recognition and audio intelligence APIs, including transcription, summarization, and speaker detection.
Boson AIStartup building large language and audio models, founded by former AWS AI researchers.
Descript is a startup founded in 2017 that builds AI-powered audio and video editing software, including transcription-based editing and voice synthesis.
UK government organisation that develops technologies for the national-security community, combining in-house engineering with collaboration across industry and academia.
Customer-service AI company, founded in 1982, providing conversational voice and virtual-assistant systems for enterprises.
Creative-media education institution in the UK, part of the global SAE Institute network for audio, film and games.
French voice-assistant and AI startup, founded in 2013, acquired by Sonos in 2019.
Chinese online music and audio entertainment company operating QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music, and WeSing.
Audio-LLM company founded in 2024 by Alexis Conneau, a former OpenAI researcher who helped create ChatGPT's voice. Aims to bring emotional intelligence to spoken AI; later acquired by Meta.
WhatsApp is an encrypted messaging platform founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton and acquired by Facebook in 2014. Its scale, privacy model, and integration into Meta make it part of the communications infrastructure through which consumer AI agents and assistants are likely to reach users.
Voice AI company providing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and audio intelligence APIs for developers and enterprises.
Chinese AI company specialising in speech recognition and natural-language processing.