Companies

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

A research institute of Abu Dhabi's Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, launched in May 2025, working from Abu Dhabi, Silicon Valley and Paris on open frontier foundation models including K2, Jais and PAN.

Research historyOpen sourceFoundation models

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

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

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

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

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

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

Langboat Technology is a Chinese AI company founded in June 2021 and incubated at Sinovation Ventures; it develops the in-house Mengzi model family and sells an enterprise agent platform and applications built on it.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

LangChain is the company behind the open-source LangChain and LangGraph frameworks and the commercial LangSmith platform, which developers use to observe, evaluate and deploy applications built on large language models.

Open sourceEnterpriseAgents & tool use

LG AI Research is the organisation behind EXAONE, a family of large language models it documents in technical reports and releases under its own EXAONE licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

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

Liquid AI is an MIT CSAIL spin-out that calls itself an efficiency-first foundation model company, arguing that models should run on local devices; its LFM3-Omni-2B is an omni-modal model published in October 2026.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsMultimodal

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