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.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Reflection AI7 people
Builds open-weight frontier models and the software and infrastructure needed to customize and deploy them. Its strategy combines large-scale pretraining and reinforcement learning with publicly released weights, research and development tools.
Company🇨🇳 Shanghai
MiniMax6 people
Global foundation-model company developing multimodal models for coding, agents, long-context reasoning, speech, music, images, and video. Its products include MiniMax Code, MiniMax Hub, MiniMax Audio, Hailuo, Talkie, and an API platform for enterprises and developers.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Liquid AI5 people
MIT-spinout startup building efficient 'liquid' foundation models based on alternative neural architectures.
Company🇺🇸 San Francisco
Arcee AI3 people
Arcee AI builds open-weight language models that organizations can download, adapt and run on their own infrastructure. Its Trinity family spans compact on-device models and larger reasoning systems, emphasizing efficient deployment and user control rather than dependence on a closed model provider.
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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.
Company🇺🇸 San Francisco
Atomic AI1 person
Biotechnology company combining machine learning, structural biology, and experimental assays to predict RNA structure and develop RNA-targeted medicines.
Company🇩🇪 Hamburg
Flower Labs1 person
Builds open-source infrastructure, models, and agents for collaborative AI, including the Flower framework for training and deploying systems across distributed data and computing environments.
Company🇩🇪 Freiburg
Prior Labs1 person
Freiburg-based AI company founded by Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann, and Sauraj Gambhir. Pioneers tabular foundation models with TabPFN, purpose-built for structured data; later acquired by SAP.
Company🇺🇸 San Francisco
Sophont1 person
Medical-AI startup founded by Tanishq Abraham and Paul Scotti. Builds open, multimodal medical foundation models that reason across imaging, clinical notes, and lab data to assist clinicians.
Company🇨🇳 China
HiDream0 people
HiDream develops open and commercial foundation models for visual generation and editing. Its model families include HiDream-I1 and HiDream-O1-Image, which use diffusion-based architectures for text-to-image generation and multimodal image tasks.