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| 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. | 2024 |
| Google Brain Google Brain was a deep-learning research team started inside Google's X in 2011. Its cat-recognition experiment, TensorFlow, sequence-to-sequence models and the Transformer made it central to modern AI; it merged into Google DeepMind in 2023. | 2011 |
| Google Research Google's research division, based in Mountain View and usually dated to 2000, produced the Transformer, BERT and T5 — the work underlying modern large language models. | 2000 |
| Kuaishou Technology 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. | 2011 |
| Luma AI Luma AI is a generative AI company founded in 2021 in Redwood City, California, known for the Dream Machine video app, the Ray3 video model and the Luma Agents platform, with more than $1.1 billion raised. | 2021 |
| 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. | 2022 |
| 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. | 2023 |
| Recording Industry Association of America 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. | |
| 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. | 2018 |
| SAG-AFTRA 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. | 2012 |
| 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. | 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. | 2019 |
| Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters describes itself as an AI and technology company supplying professionals with trusted content and workflow automation. It owns the Westlaw legal research database, and its copyright suit against Ross Intelligence became a closely watched test of fair use in AI training. |