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Agentic AI Foundation

The Agentic AI Foundation is a Linux Foundation project launched in December 2025 to provide vendor-neutral governance for agent interoperability, security and accountability. It grew from three hosted projects to ten and passed 300 member organisations within a year.

Open sourceEnterpriseInteroperability

2025
AGNTCY

AGNTCY is an open-source project, open sourced by Cisco in March 2025 and welcomed by the Linux Foundation in July 2025, that gives AI agents from different vendors shared infrastructure for discovery, identity, messaging and observability.

Open sourceEnterpriseAgents & tool use

2025
Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs is a German AI lab based in Freiburg im Breisgau, founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann and Patrick Esser. It develops the FLUX image models and raised a $300 million Series B in December 2025.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

2024
GitHub

GitHub is a code hosting and collaboration platform used by more than 225 million developers, acquired by Microsoft in 2018 and the birthplace of the GitHub Copilot coding assistant.

Product historyDeveloper toolsCode

Midjourney

Midjourney is a San Francisco-based independent research lab that runs an image generator. Founded and led by David Holz, it has never taken outside funding and has been involved in several copyright lawsuits.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

2022
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.

ChinaInteroperabilityIndustrial automation

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.

Safety & governanceData & datasetsInteroperability

1901
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.

Research historyOpen sourceSafety & governance

1998
PixVerse (Aishi Technology)

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

2023
Poolside

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

Runway

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

2018
Shengshu Technology

Chinese generative-AI company founded in March 2023 that built the Vidu video model and now describes two lines of work: world generation models and world action models.

ChinaEnterpriseFoundation models

2023
Stability AI

Stability AI is a British generative-AI company founded in 2019 in London. It is known for releasing the open-weight Stable Diffusion image model in 2022, and it has since faced copyright lawsuits over training data.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

2019
State Council of the People's Republic of China

The State Council is China's Central People's Government: the executive body of the highest organ of state power and the highest organ of state administration, led by a Premier who assumes overall responsibility.

ChinaEnterpriseInteroperability

UK AI Security Institute

A UK government research body created in 2023 to study the most powerful AI models and AI safety, renamed in 2025 to focus on national security and serious crime. It advises government but has no regulatory power.

Safety & governanceEuropeInteroperability

2023