Companies

An AI drug-discovery company with sites in London and Oxford that focused on computational molecule design; in November 2024 it became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Recursion, with a combined pipeline of more than 10 clinical and preclinical programmes.

EnterpriseScienceBiomedicine

The FCC is the US agency that administers the Communications Act of 1934. In 2024 it confirmed that restrictions on artificial or prerecorded voices already cover AI-generated voices, and proposed a US$6 million robocall penalty.

Consumer appsSafety & governanceData & datasets

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

A London-headquartered AI research organisation formed in 2023 by merging DeepMind with Google's Brain team, known for AlphaGo, AlphaFold and the Gemini model family.

Research historyDeep learningFoundation models

British chip company founded in 2016 in Bristol that designs Intelligence Processing Units for AI workloads; it raised large sums, reported heavy losses, and became a SoftBank Group subsidiary in 2024.

EnterpriseHardware & computeData & datasets

HHMI is a private biomedical research institution founded in 1953 that funds scientists at all career stages and runs the Janelia Research Campus.

Research historyScienceBiomedicine

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

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

Insilico Medicine is a drug discovery company founded in the United States in 2014 that pairs an AI software platform, Pharma.AI, with its own pipeline of drug programmes and automated laboratory work.

ChinaEnterpriseGenerative models

A research institute at the University of Washington, founded in 2012 and led by David Baker, that designs new proteins for medicine and technology; its labs produced RoseTTAFold and, it says, the first computationally designed vaccine.

Research historyDeep learningScience

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

ICLR is an annual machine learning conference held in late April or early May, founded in 2012 by Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, and known for its open peer review process.

Research historyDeep learningScience

ICML is the annual International Conference on Machine Learning, held every year since 1980 and organized by the International Machine Learning Society. It is the oldest of the field's main conferences and one of its three most influential venues.

Research historyDeep learningScience

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

IJCAI is a non-profit corporation founded in California in 1969 for scientific and educational purposes; it runs the IJCAI conference series (biennial in odd years from 1969, annual since 2015) and publishes a journal and proceedings.

Research historyEnterpriseScience

Isomorphic Labs is an AI drug discovery company launched out of DeepMind and dated to 2021, building the IsoDDE platform and working with Novartis, Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson.

EnterpriseDeep learningScience

LMSYS (Large Model Systems) is a non-profit that started as a multi-university collaboration in 2023 and became an incorporated organisation in September 2024, building open models, serving systems and evaluation platforms such as Chatbot Arena, SGLang, FastChat and Vicuna.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

Founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute, MIRI is a Berkeley nonprofit that was among the first to treat artificial intelligence risk as a technical research problem, and now advocates halting work on smarter-than-human AI.

Research historySafety & governanceScience

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

METR is a Berkeley-based nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models on long-horizon agentic tasks, publishes capability metrics and incident investigations, and works with AI developers on pre-deployment assessments and safeguards.

Agents & tool useSafety & governanceScience