Companies

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.

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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

Chinese medical-AI company founded in 2016 that focuses on AI for diagnosing and treating coronary heart disease, and says it holds China's first class III AI medical device certificate.

ChinaEnterpriseDeep learning

Kunlunxin is the AI chip company spun out of Baidu in April 2021, continuing Baidu's Kunlun chip line. It designs processors for AI workloads in data centres and is one of China's largest domestic AI chip suppliers.

ChinaEnterpriseDeep learning

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.

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MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted the AI lab that Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy co-founded, which later became CSAIL. The lab also invented Lisp machines, and Minsky co-wrote the book Perceptrons.

Research historyDeep learningRobotics

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's corporate research division, founded in 1991, whose researchers produced work such as the ResNet image-recognition architecture and helped build features used in Kinect, Bing, HoloLens, Cortana and Microsoft Translator.

Research historyEnterpriseDeep learning

Microsoft Research Asia is Microsoft's research laboratory in the Asia-Pacific region, founded in Beijing in November 1998. It works on artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction and related fields, and its researchers have included the first author of the ResNet paper.

Research historyChinaDeep learning

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

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), formed in 2003 by merging the MIT AI Lab with the Laboratory for Computer Science, is the largest laboratory on the MIT campus.

Research historyDeep learningRobotics

Chinese GPU company Moore Threads, founded in 2020 by former Nvidia China head Zhang Jianzhong, sells AI accelerator cards, servers and clusters built on its MUSA architecture. It listed on the STAR Market in 2025 and is growing fast while still loss-making.

ChinaEnterpriseDeep learning

New York University, chartered in 1831 and centred on Washington Square Park, is a private research university whose Courant Institute and Center for Data Science made it a home for machine learning research and data science training.

Research historyDeep learningComputer vision

NVIDIA is the company that created the GPU in 1999 and, through the CUDA architecture and the chips behind AlexNet, became a central supplier of computing power for modern AI.

Deep learningHardware & computeDeveloper tools

Oracle is an American software company founded in 1977 that sells database software, enterprise applications, and cloud infrastructure and hardware. A 2025 disclosure of cloud commitments with OpenAI reshaped its standing among the world's largest companies.

EnterpriseData & datasetsCloud

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.

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Preferred Networks, Inc. is a Tokyo technology company founded in 2014 that builds AI processors, runs its own supercomputer and develops Japanese large language models, with major Japanese manufacturers among its shareholders.

EnterpriseDeep learningHardware & compute

Recursion is a drug discovery company that pairs automated laboratory experiments with computation; its Recursion OS platform spans target identification to clinical trial enrolment. It listed on Nasdaq in 2021 and combined with Exscientia in 2024.

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Salesforce is a San Francisco enterprise software company founded in 1999 that sells customer relationship management software by subscription, and has grown into one of the largest business software firms in the world.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useData & datasets

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