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| ByteDance ByteDance is a Chinese internet company founded in 2012, whose AI work includes the Doubao chatbot, the TRAE coding tool, the Seed model team and the Volcano Engine cloud platform.[^1] | 2012 |
| Cambricon Technologies A Chinese AI chip company founded in 2016 and listed on the STAR Market in 2020. It designs cloud, edge and endpoint chips, and in 2025 it turned profitable as revenue rose sharply. | 2016 |
| Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has one of the earliest US computer science departments. Its researchers built the Logic Theorist, Sphinx speech recognition and the Deep Blue lineage, and won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. | 1900 |
| Center for AI Safety A San Francisco nonprofit founded in 2022 that researches technical AI safety, builds the field of safety researchers, and advocates for safety standards — known for a 2023 statement on AI extinction risk signed by industry leaders. | 2022 |
| Cerebras Systems Cerebras Systems is an American AI chip company founded in 2015 that builds wafer-scale processors — single chips made from a whole silicon wafer — and the computers around them, from the WSE and CS-1 to the WSE-3 and CS-3. | 2015 |
| Character.AI Character.AI is a chatbot company founded in 2021 by former Google engineers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, known for user-created AI characters; it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2026. | 2021 |
| CloudWalk Technology CloudWalk Technology is a Chinese AI company built on academic face recognition research. Founded in April 2015, it was the last of the four Chinese computer vision firms known as the "CV four little dragons" to be established. | 2015 |
| Coatue Coatue is an investment firm that puts money to work in both public and private technology markets, with a private portfolio of more than 250 tech companies and a growing profile in AI through backing for Anthropic and Anysphere. | |
| Codeium (Windsurf) Windsurf, formerly Codeium, is an agentic IDE founded by Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen. In 2025 its technology was licensed to Google while its chief executive joined Google, and the company itself was acquired by Cognition. | |
| Cognition Cognition is the company behind Devin, introduced in March 2024 as the first autonomous software engineer, and the publisher of the FrontierCode benchmark, which judges AI-written code by whether a maintainer would merge it. | 2024 |
| Cohere Cohere is a Toronto-based enterprise AI company founded in 2019. It builds the Command family of language models, sells them to businesses, and in September 2026 signed a definitive agreement to combine with Aleph Alpha. | 2019 |
| Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) CVPR is the annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, first held in 1983 and usually held in June in North America. It is known for selective, double-blind review and open-access papers. | 1983 |
| Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) NeurIPS is an annual December conference on machine learning and computational neuroscience, founded in 1987 and counted among the most influential meetings in AI research. | 1987 |
| Constellation Energy American energy company headquartered in Baltimore, one of the largest electricity producers in the United States, known for its 2024 agreement to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1. | 2022 |
| CoreWeave A New Jersey cloud company that began as an ethereum miner and became a large-scale GPU computing provider for AI, backed by NVIDIA and listed on Nasdaq in 2025 alongside a major OpenAI deal. | 2017 |
| Cornell University A private research university in Ithaca, New York, founded in 1865. It is also where Frank Rosenblatt studied and worked, and where the perceptron — an early learning machine and the first neural network — was developed. | 1865 |
| Coursera Coursera is an online learning platform launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, offering courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, degrees and skills-focused learning with a mission of universal access to world-class learning. | 2012 |
| Covariant Covariant is a robotics AI company founded in 2017 by researchers largely from UC Berkeley; in 2024 Amazon hired its founders and took a non-exclusive licence to its robotics foundation models. | 2017 |
| Cruise Cruise was a San Francisco autonomous-vehicle company founded in 2013 and acquired by General Motors in 2016; it ran paid driverless rides in San Francisco before its permits were suspended and GM wound the business down. | 2013 |
| Cyberspace Administration of China The State Internet Information Office — the Cyberspace Administration of China — is the Chinese body that manages online information content, from news licensing and website enforcement to algorithm rules and AI content labeling. | 2011 |