01.AI
Beijing, ChinaKai-Fu Lee's lab behind the open Yi model family.
AI21 Labs
Tel Aviv, IsraelJamba and Jurassic LLMs for enterprise.
$336MAlibaba
Qwen open-weights model family.
PublicAllen Institute for AI
Seattle, WANonprofit research lab releasing fully-open OLMo models.
Amazon
Seattle, WAAWS Bedrock and Anthropic's primary cloud partner.
PublicAnthropic
Constitutional AI lab building Claude.
$8B+Baidu
Beijing, ChinaChinese search giant developing the ERNIE foundation models.
Black Forest Labs
Freiburg, GermanyFLUX image generation models from ex-Stability researchers.
$31MBland AI
San Francisco, CAEnterprise voice AI for automated phone calls at scale.
$22MByteDance
Beijing, ChinaMaker of TikTok and the Doubao / Seedance family of multimodal models.
Captions
New York, NYAI-native creator app for video editing, captions, and avatars.
$100MCartesia
San Francisco, CAReal-time voice and state space models (Sonic).
$27MCharacter.AI
Menlo Park, CAPersonality-driven conversational AI platform.
$193MCodeium
Mountain View, CAEnterprise AI coding assistant and Windsurf editor.
$243MCognition
San Francisco, CAMaker of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer.
$196MCohere
Toronto, CanadaEnterprise LLM platform for retrieval-augmented generation.
$970MCursor
San Francisco, CAAI-native code editor from Anysphere.
$400M+Databricks
San Francisco, CALakehouse platform with Mosaic AI for foundation models.
$10B+Decagon
San Francisco, CAEnterprise AI agents for customer support automation.
$100MDeepSeek
Open-weights MoE pioneer.
UndisclosedDescript
San Francisco, CAAI-native audio and video editing tool.
$100MElevenLabs
Hyper-realistic voice synthesis.
$280MFireworks AI
Redwood City, CAFast inference platform for open models.
$77MGlean
Palo Alto, CAEnterprise AI search and work assistant.
$615MGoodfire
San Francisco, CAMechanistic interpretability platform for understanding LLMs.
$57MGoogle DeepMind
Google's frontier AI research division.
InternalGroq
Mountain View, CALPU inference hardware delivering ultra-fast token throughput.
$640MHarvey
San Francisco, CADomain-specific generative AI for legal work.
$206MHedra
San Francisco, CAAvatar-first generative video startup behind Character-3.
$32MHeyGen
Los Angeles, CAGenerative AI video avatars and translation.
$74MHugging Face
New York, NYOpen-source hub for models, datasets, and Spaces.
$395MIdeogram
Toronto, CanadaImage generation with industry-leading text rendering.
$80MInflection AI
Palo Alto, CAPersonal AI lab behind Pi assistant.
$1.5BJasper
Austin, TXMarketing-focused generative AI platform.
$131MKrea
San Francisco, CAReal-time creative AI canvas for images and video.
$83MKuaishou
Beijing, ChinaShort-video giant behind Kling, one of the leading text-to-video models.
PublicLangChain
San Francisco, CAFramework and platform for LLM applications.
$35MLightning AI
New York, NYPyTorch Lightning creators with cloud Studios.
$80MLightricks
Jerusalem, IsraelCreators-app maker shipping the open LTX Video model.
$335MLiquid AI
Cambridge, MALiquid Foundation Models from MIT CSAIL spinout.
$250MLlamaIndex
San Francisco, CAData framework for LLM agents and RAG.
$27MLuma AI
Palo Alto, CADream Machine generative video and 3D models.
$67MMagic
San Francisco, CAFrontier long-context code generation models.
$465MMeituan AI
Beijing, ChinaMeituan-backed lab releasing open LongCat reasoning models.
PublicMeta AI
Open-source AI flagbearer behind Llama.
InternalMicrosoft
Redmond, WACopilot, Azure AI, and OpenAI's primary cloud partner.
Public
Midjourney
Photorealistic image generation.
BootstrappedMiniMax
Shanghai, ChinaChinese AI lab behind the Hailuo video model and MiniMax-Text series.
$600M+Mistral AI
European frontier AI lab.
$1.2BModal
New York, NYServerless GPU platform for AI workloads.
$23MMoonshot AI
Beijing, ChinaLong-context Chinese AI lab behind the Kimi assistant.
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CAGPU and AI infrastructure leader powering the modern AI stack.
Public
OpenAI
Frontier AI research and deployment.
$13B+Perplexity
AI-native answer engine.
$520MPhysical Intelligence
San Francisco, CABuilding general-purpose robot foundation models (π series).
$470MPika
Palo Alto, CAGenerative video creation platform.
$135MPinecone
New York, NYManaged vector database for AI applications.
$138MPoolside
Paris, FranceFrontier coding foundation model lab behind the Malibu series.
$626MRecraft
London, UKImage model tuned for brand-consistent design and typography.
$30MReka AI
San Francisco, CAMultimodal frontier models (Reka Core, Flash).
$60MReplicate
San Francisco, CARun open-source AI models with one API.
$58MReplit
San Francisco, CAAgentic browser-based development environment.
$245MRetell AI
San Francisco, CALow-latency conversational voice agent infrastructure.
$4.6MRunway
New York, NYGenerative video models (Gen-3) for creative production.
$237MSakana AI
Tokyo, JapanNature-inspired foundation models from Tokyo.
$214MScale AI
San Francisco, CAData engine for frontier AI labs and enterprise.
$1.6BShengshu AI
Beijing, ChinaTsinghua-spinout building the Vidu video generation model.
$130MSierra
San Francisco, CABret Taylor's company building branded customer-experience agents.
$285MSnowflake
Bozeman, MTCloud data platform; releases the open Arctic LLMs.
Stability AI
London, UKOpen-source generative media (Stable Diffusion).
$200M+StepFun
Shanghai, ChinaChinese frontier lab shipping the Step-2 and Step-Video families.
$1.3BSuno
Cambridge, MAGenerative music model platform.
$125MSynthesia
London, UKAI video avatars for enterprise communication.
$157MTavus
San Francisco, CAReal-time AI avatar APIs for personalized video at scale.
$58MTencent
Shenzhen, ChinaChinese tech giant behind the Hunyuan family of foundation models.
Together AI
San Francisco, CAOpen-model cloud for training and inference.
$228MTwelve Labs
San Francisco, CABuilding Marengo and Pegasus , multimodal video understanding models.
$107M
Uncensored AI
Developer of frontier uncensored large language models optimized for unrestricted news, content, reasoning, coding, and research tasks.
Vapi
San Francisco, CADeveloper platform for production voice AI agents.
$20MVenice
Miami, FLVenice is a privacy-first generative AI platform offering uncensored text, image, and code models. All conversations are stored locally in the browser, never on Venice servers, and inference runs on decentralized GPU infrastructure.
Vercel
San Francisco, CAFrontend cloud and v0 generative UI platform.
$563MWeaviate
Amsterdam, NetherlandsOpen-source vector database for AI.
$68MWorld Labs
San Francisco, CAFei-Fei Li's lab building spatially intelligent world models.
$230MWriter
San Francisco, CAEnterprise generative AI platform with Palmyra models.
$326M
xAI
Real-time AI from Elon Musk's xAI.
$6BZhipu AI
Beijing, ChinaTsinghua-spun lab behind the open GLM model family.
