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| MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) 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. | 1959 |
| Mobileye Mobileye makes camera-based vision chips and software for cars, from basic driver assistance up to systems for driverless vehicles; its EyeQ chips have shipped in hundreds of millions of vehicles. | 1999 |
| ModelBest A Chinese AI company founded in 2022 under Tsinghua associate professor Liu Zhiyuan, known for the MiniCPM on-device model series, multimodal and speech models, and the ForgeTrain training framework. | 2022 |
| Model Evaluation and Threat Research 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. | 2023 |
| Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence MBZUAI, the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, is a graduate AI university in Abu Dhabi, founded in 2019. It hosts the Institute of Foundation Models, which builds the K2, Jais and PAN model lines. | 2019 |
| Momenta Momenta is a Chinese "physical AI" company founded in 2016 by Cao Xudong that supplies driving software to carmakers around the world, and it listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in July 2026. | 2016 |
| Moonshot AI 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. | 2023 |
| Moore Threads 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. | 2020 |
| Nanjing University A large comprehensive research university in China, with 47 schools, 16 disciplines on the national Double First-Class list, more graduate than undergraduate students, and 36 members of the national academies on its staff. | |
| National Development and Reform Commission The National Development and Reform Commission is a ministerial-level department of China's State Council that drafts and implements economic and social development plans, manages investment and coordinates macro-economic policy. It descends from the State Planning Commission established in 1952. | |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST is a U.S. federal physical science laboratory founded in 1901 and now part of the Department of Commerce, which works on measurement science, standards and technology — and has recently become the home of the government's AI safety and evaluation work. | 1901 |
| New York University 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. | 1831 |
| NVIDIA 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. | 1993 |
| NVIDIA Research NVIDIA Research is the research arm of the chipmaker NVIDIA, founded in 2006 with more than 200 scientists. It leads work on AI, self-driving cars, high-performance computing and graphics, and it builds the company's open Nemotron language models. | 2006 |
| OpenAI 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. | 2015 |
| Open Source Initiative A non-profit founded in 1998 that stewards the Open Source Definition and, since 2024, the Open Source AI Definition, setting a shared standard for what counts as open source. | 1998 |
| Oracle Corporation 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. | 1977 |
| Partnership on AI A nonprofit coalition of industry, academic, civil society and media organizations, formed in 2016 to guide the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence. | 2016 |
| Peking University Peking University is a Chinese university that dates its founding to 1898 and reported 53,946 full-time students in a January 2026 snapshot; in September 2020 Zhu Songchun was named to lead its Institute for Artificial Intelligence. | |
| Perplexity AI 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. | 2022 |