Company🇺🇸 United States
SpaceXAI54 people
SpaceXAI develops the Grok model family and related reasoning, voice, coding, and generative-media products, supported by the Colossus computing infrastructure. It continues the AI organization founded as xAI, which SpaceX acquired in 2026 and now operates under the SpaceXAI brand.
Company🇨🇳 Beijing
Baidu23 people
Baidu operates a full AI stack spanning cloud infrastructure, the PaddlePaddle deep-learning framework, ERNIE foundation models, and consumer and enterprise applications. Its work also includes search, the Qianfan model platform, and Apollo Go autonomous ride-hailing.
Company🇨🇳 Beijing
ByteDance19 people
ByteDance develops recommendation systems and consumer platforms including TikTok and Douyin. Its Seed organization builds agentic and multimodal foundation models, generative-media systems, robotics, and AI-for-science research across language, vision, speech, audio, video, and 3D.
Company🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Stability AI15 people
Stability 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.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Runway8 people
Generative media company building AI tools for video creation, editing, and image-to-video generation, including the Gen model family.
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
Luma AI5 people
Startup building generative video and 3D models, known for the Dream Machine video-generation system.
Company🇨🇦 Toronto
Moonvalley3 people
Generative-video company behind Marey, a production-focused model trained on licensed creative work. In June 2026, Moonvalley joined forces with Reka AI, bringing its video-generation and world-modeling research team into Reka.
Company🇺🇸 San Francisco
Discord2 people
Discord is a voice, video, and text communication platform founded in 2015, originally aimed at gamers and now widely used by online communities.
Company🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Haiper2 people
London-based AI video-generation startup, founded in 2021.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Higgsfield AI2 people
Generative AI company founded by Alex Mashrabov, former head of Generative AI at Snap. Builds consumer tools for AI video and image creation.
Company🇺🇸 San Francisco
Hotshot2 people
Hotshot was a San Francisco-based AI video generation startup founded by Aakash Sastry and John Mullan, known for its text-to-video models including Hotshot-XL. It was acquired by xAI in March 2025.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Pika2 people
Builds generative-video models and creative tools that turn text and images into short videos, visual effects, and real-time video identities for AI agents.
Company🇨🇳 China
ShengShu2 people
Chinese startup building multimodal generative models, known for the Vidu video-generation model.
Company🇺🇸 United States
YouTube2 people
Google-owned video platform whose recommendation, ranking, moderation, speech, and creator systems are among the largest applied AI deployments.
Company🇨🇳 Beijing
Beijing Hulu Technology1 person
Beijing Hulu Technology was a Beijing software company engaged in research and development for streaming-media technology. Public biographical filings document it as a former employer of engineers who later worked on large-scale video and AI systems.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Clarifai1 person
Computer-vision company providing image and video recognition APIs and a full-stack AI platform. Acquired by Nebius in May 2026.
Company🇺🇸 Foster City
Conviva1 person
Streaming-analytics company, founded in 2006 out of Stanford research, that measures and optimises video-streaming quality.
Company🇺🇸 San Francisco
Descript1 person
Descript is a startup founded in 2017 that builds AI-powered audio and video editing software, including transcription-based editing and voice synthesis.
Company🇺🇸 Los Angeles
Digital Domain1 person
Visual-effects and digital-production studio, founded in 1993 by James Cameron, Stan Winston and Scott Ross.
Company🇺🇸 United States
Genmo1 person
Startup building open video-generation models, known for the Mochi model.
Company🇺🇸 Richardson
Id Software1 person
American video-game developer, founded in 1991, creators of Doom, Quake and the id Tech engines.
Non-profit🇺🇸 United States
Khan Academy1 person
US non-profit, founded in 2008 by Salman Khan, providing free online education and instructional videos.
Company🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lionhead Studios1 person
British video-game developer, founded in 1996 by Peter Molyneux, known for the Fable series; closed by Microsoft in 2016.