Companies

Physical Intelligence is a company that develops foundation models and learning algorithms for robots, aiming to bring general-purpose AI into the physical world. It publishes generalist robot policies such as π0 and π0.5, along with open weights and code.

EnterpriseFoundation modelsMultimodal

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

Pony.ai is an autonomous driving company founded in Fremont, California, in late 2016. It runs robotaxi, robotruck and personal-vehicle businesses on a common "virtual driver" system, and operates in both California and China.

ChinaEnterpriseRobotics

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

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

Princeton University, chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, is where Turing, McCarthy and Minsky took their doctorates and where Fei-Fei Li began ImageNet; seventeen Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with it.

Research historyData & datasetsComputer vision

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

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.

EnterpriseDeep learningScience

Redwood Research is an AI safety research group that has co-authored, with Anthropic, studies of deceptive behaviour in language models — sleeper-agent backdoors and alignment faking — as well as work on AI control protocols.

Research historySafety & governanceScience

Reka AI is an AI research lab building models and infrastructure for the physical AI era. Its releases include reka-flash-3, a 21-billion-parameter reasoning model, and Reka Edge, a 7-billion-parameter vision-language model designed to run on devices at the edge.

Large language modelsMultimodalRobotics

Rethink Robotics was a Massachusetts robotics company whose humanoid robot Baxter, unveiled in 2012, was designed to work safely alongside people on factory production lines.

EnterpriseRoboticsIndustrial automation

The RoboCup Federation runs an international robot-soccer initiative and competition whose stated aim is to develop robotic players able to beat a human World Cup champion team.

Research historyRoboticsScience

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

Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) is an American AI company founded in June 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy to build a safe superintelligence as its only product, without releasing anything in between.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsSafety & governance

American labor union formed in 2012 by the merger of the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA, representing about 170,000 media professionals and known for its Actor Awards and its 2023 contract protections on digital replicas.

EnterpriseSafety & governanceCreative tools

Sakana AI is a Tokyo research and development company founded in July 2023 by David Ha, Ren Ito and Llion Jones, known for evolutionary model merging, projects such as The AI Scientist, and Japanese-language models named Namazu.

Large language modelsResearch historyFoundation models

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

Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver-based robotics company founded in 2018 that aims to build human-like intelligence for general-purpose robots. Its humanoid robot Phoenix was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2023 list, and the company reported its first commercial deployment that year.

EnterpriseRoboticsHumanoid robots

Sarvam AI is an Indian company building a sovereign AI stack; its Sarvam-M, a post-trained 24-billion-parameter Mistral Small released under Apache-2.0, reports large gains on Indian-language benchmarks.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

A data company founded in 2016 that produces labeled and evaluated training data for AI models, counting OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft among its customers; in 2025 Meta took a 49% non-voting stake for more than $14 billion.

EnterpriseFoundation modelsData & datasets