Companies

SenseTime is a Chinese AI company founded in October 2014 and listed in Hong Kong at the end of 2021. It develops the SenseNova large models and, in 2026, reported its first IFRS net profit since listing.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

Chinese generative-AI company founded in March 2023 that built the Vidu video model and now describes two lines of work: world generation models and world action models.

ChinaEnterpriseFoundation models

Sierra is a company co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor that helps businesses build customer experiences with AI agents, positioning the technology as augmentation of human staff rather than replacement.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

Siri, Inc. was a startup spun out of SRI International in 2007 to turn decades of AI research — notably the CALO project — into a consumer virtual personal assistant; Apple acquired it in 2010.

Research historyAgents & tool useConsumer apps

SK hynix is a Korea-headquartered supplier of DRAM and NAND flash memory, and the company that released the first high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and says it has developed and shipped every HBM generation since.

EnterpriseDeep learningHardware & compute

Skild AI is a robotics company founded in 2023 that builds a general-purpose robotic foundation model, intended to act as a single brain across many robot bodies and tasks such as manipulation, locomotion and navigation.

EnterpriseDeep learningFoundation models

Snowflake is a cloud data platform company that also builds its own open language models; its Arctic model pairs a dense transformer with a sparse mixture of experts and shipped under Apache 2.0.

Large language modelsEnterpriseData & datasets

SRI International is a non-profit research institute in Menlo Park, California, founded in 1946 as the Stanford Research Institute. Its AI Center built Shakey the robot, and its later work led to Siri.

Research historyRoboticsComputer vision

Stability AI is a British generative-AI company founded in 2019 in London. It is known for releasing the open-weight Stable Diffusion image model in 2022, and it has since faced copyright lawsuits over training data.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, started by John McCarthy in 1963, is associated with the Stanford arm robot design, the Stanley self-driving car and the SAIL programming language.

Research historyRoboticsComputer vision

Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, launched in 2019 and co-directed by Fei-Fei Li and John Etchemendy, studies AI's opportunities and risks and houses the Center for Research on Foundation Models.

Research historyFoundation modelsSafety & governance

Stanford University is a private research university in California, home to the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and the Institute for Human-Centered AI, which publishes the AI Index.

Research historyDeep learningRobotics

The State Council is China's Central People's Government: the executive body of the highest organ of state power and the highest organ of state administration, led by a Premier who assumes overall responsibility.

ChinaEnterpriseInteroperability

StepFun (阶跃星辰) is a Shanghai AI company founded in April 2023 by former Microsoft staff. It builds multimodal Step-series models and has open-sourced several of them.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Talen Energy is an independent power producer created in 2015 from the spinoff of PPL's competitive generation business, later taken private by Riverstone, restructured through bankruptcy, and now a nuclear power supplier to Amazon.

Hardware & computeCloudIndustrial automation

A public technical university in Munich, founded in 1868, where Sepp Hochreiter wrote the 1991 thesis that produced the first LSTM results, and where Jürgen Schmidhuber studied and later taught.

Research historyDeep learningEurope

The Technology Innovation Institute is a research centre of Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council that works across ten technology fields and develops the Falcon family of language models, releasing model weights, technical reports and its own licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

Tencent is a Chinese internet company founded in 1998, known for QQ, WeChat and video games. Since 2023 its Hunyuan model line has been its main AI effort, later branded Hy.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Tesla is the American company behind Optimus, a humanoid robot first shown as a concept at its 2021 AI Day; later reports describe pilot production lines, plans for volume manufacturing and a target unit cost below US$20,000.

EnterpriseProduct historyRobotics

T-Head Semiconductor is Alibaba's chip design unit, founded in 2018. It has released the Hanguang 800 AI inference chip, the Yitian 710 server CPU and the Zhenwu PPU AI processor, which Alibaba uses at scale for its Qwen models.

ChinaEnterpriseHardware & compute