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General Motors

General Motors acquired the self-driving startup Cruise Automation in 2016, then stopped funding its robotaxi work in December 2024 and refocused on hands-free driver assistance such as Super Cruise.

EnterpriseConsumer appsRobotics

GitHub

GitHub is a code hosting and collaboration platform used by more than 225 million developers, acquired by Microsoft in 2018 and the birthplace of the GitHub Copilot coding assistant.

Product historyDeveloper toolsCode

Google

Google, part of Alphabet, works on AI at several levels at once: it designs its own TPU chips, trains large language models such as PaLM and Gemini, and brought its research labs together as Google DeepMind in 2023.

Consumer appsFoundation modelsHardware & compute

Huawei

Huawei is a Chinese information and communications technology company founded in Shenzhen in 1987. It designs its own Ascend AI chips and the software and large computing systems built around them.

ChinaEnterpriseHardware & compute

1987
Hugging Face

Hugging Face is an AI platform company founded in 2016. Its Hub shares models, datasets and demo apps, its libraries include Transformers, and in September 2026 Nvidia agreed to acquire it.

Open sourceFoundation modelsData & datasets

2016
Infinigence AI (Wuwen Xinqiong)

A Chinese artificial intelligence infrastructure company that builds the middle layer letting many models run on many kinds of chips, and also releases the open Megrez model family.

ChinaEnterpriseFoundation models

Inflection AI

Inflection AI is an American AI company founded in 2022 by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan. It built the chatbot Pi and, in 2024, moved most of its staff and technology to Microsoft.

Large language modelsEnterpriseConsumer apps

2022
Informatica

Informatica is an American software company founded in 1993 that sells enterprise cloud data management and data integration software, from data catalog and governance to master data management. It went public in 1999, was taken private in 2015, relisted in 2021, and was acquired by Salesforce in 2025.

EnterpriseData & datasetsCloud

1993
Insight Partners

A software-focused investment firm that dates its software investing to a 1995 bet, reports over $90 billion in regulatory assets under management, and has invested in more than 900 companies worldwide.

EnterpriseDeveloper toolsCloud

1995
Intel

Intel is a semiconductor company. Its 2017 purchase of Mobileye, later partly floated, and its decision to keep Falcon Shores as an internal test chip show how it enters and steps back from adjacent markets.

EnterpriseHardware & computeData & datasets

International Energy Agency (IEA)

The International Energy Agency is a Paris-based intergovernmental organisation founded in 1974 to respond to oil supply disruptions. It publishes the annual World Energy Outlook and, since 2024, has run work on energy and AI.

Data & datasetsScienceCloud

1974
iRobot

An American robotics company founded in 1990 by three MIT researchers, iRobot built space and military robots before its Roomba vacuum cleaner made it a consumer name; it listed on NASDAQ in 2005 and filed for bankruptcy protection in 2025.

EnterpriseConsumer appsProduct history

1990
Kairos Power

Kairos Power, founded in 2016, is an American company developing a fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor using TRISO fuel. It is building the Hermes demonstration reactor in Tennessee and plans 500 MW of projects with Google by 2035.

Hardware & computeCloudIndustrial automation

2016
Kuaishou Technology

Kuaishou Technology is a Beijing-based short-video and live-streaming company, founded in 2011 as GIF Kuaishou. It listed in Hong Kong in 2021 and builds the Kling video generation model.

ChinaConsumer appsGenerative models

2011
Li Auto

Li Auto is a Chinese automaker that describes itself as a pioneer in commercialising extended-range electric vehicles in China. It sells extended-range and battery-electric family vehicles and has built a large delivery, retail and charging footprint.

ChinaEnterpriseConsumer apps

2015
Lovable

Lovable is a platform that turns a plain-language description into working software, handling hosting, backend and payments; its co-founder says annual run-rate revenue passed $600 million.

EnterpriseConsumer appsDeveloper tools

Magnetar

Magnetar is an investment firm reporting more than $17 billion in assets under management as of mid-2026, working across alternative credit and fixed income, quantitative investing, and ventures.

EnterpriseData & datasetsCloud

Manus (Butterfly Effect)

Manus is a Singapore-based AI startup, founded in Beijing as Butterfly Effect in 2022, that builds AI agents. Meta agreed to buy it for about $2 billion, the deal was blocked in China, and it later returned to independence.

ChinaAgents & tool useConsumer apps

2022
Microsoft

Microsoft is an American technology company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Its AI work combines a partnership with OpenAI, the Copilot products and its own in-house MAI and Phi models.

Large language modelsEnterpriseConsumer apps

1975
Microsoft AI

Microsoft AI is the consumer AI organisation Microsoft formed in March 2024 to advance Copilot and its other AI products and research, led by Mustafa Suleyman. It develops the MAI family of in-house models.

Large language modelsConsumer appsFoundation models

2024