Companies

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

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

Luma AI is a generative AI company founded in 2021 in Redwood City, California, known for the Dream Machine video app, the Ray3 video model and the Luma Agents platform, with more than $1.1 billion raised.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

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

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

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

Midjourney is a San Francisco-based independent research lab that runs an image generator. Founded and led by David Holz, it has never taken outside funding and has been involved in several copyright lawsuits.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Mila, the Quebec AI Institute, is a Montreal deep-learning institute founded in 1993 by Yoshua Bengio as LISA; its graduates include Ian Goodfellow and Hugo Larochelle.

Research historyOpen sourceDeep learning

MiniMax is a Shanghai-based AI company founded in December 2021 by computer-vision researchers from SenseTime. It builds text, speech and video models and consumer apps such as Talkie and Hailuo AI, and listed in Hong Kong in January 2026.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Chinese AI company founded in Beijing in 2023 by Tsinghua schoolfriends Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin; maker of the long-context Kimi assistant and the K-series models, and one of China's fastest-rising model developers by valuation.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

OpenAI is a San Francisco AI research and deployment company founded in 2015 as a nonprofit. It makes the GPT model family and ChatGPT and filed confidentially for an IPO in June 2026.

Large language modelsConsumer appsFoundation models

Perplexity AI is a San Francisco company founded on 22 August 2022 by Aravind Srinivas and others. It runs an AI answer engine that cites web sources and has since added models, a browser and agents.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useConsumer apps

PixVerse, founded in 2023 as Aishi Technology, is an AI video generation company whose in-house models power a web app, an API and agent tools; a March 2026 Series C made it a unicorn.

ChinaEnterpriseGenerative models

Poolside is an AI company building models for software work; in April 2026 it released the Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2 models and pool, the agent runtime behind its reinforcement learning.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

The Recording Industry Association of America is the US trade body for companies that make and distribute recorded music. It lobbies, runs research, issues Gold and Platinum awards, and in 2024 sued two AI music generators.

Consumer appsSafety & governanceCreative tools

Runway is a New York-based AI video company founded in 2018. It co-released Stable Diffusion in 2022, has built a series of video models from Gen-1 to Gen-4.5, and in February 2026 raised $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation.

EnterpriseMultimodalGenerative models

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

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

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

T. Rowe Price is a US asset management firm founded in 1937, reporting $1.86 trillion in assets under management and known for retirement and target-date investing. It was also a significant investor in Anthropic's $13 billion Series F round.

EnterpriseConsumer appsCloud