Companies

01.AI is a Beijing-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by Kai-Fu Lee. It builds open and closed large language models, including the Yi series, and the Wanzhi enterprise platform.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

AI21 Labs is an Israeli AI company founded in Tel Aviv in November 2017 that builds large language models, including the Jurassic and Jamba families, and the Wordtune writing assistant.

Large language modelsOpen sourceEnterprise

Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group and the developer of the Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) large language model family, which is released as both open weights and proprietary models.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Amazon is the American technology company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Through Amazon Web Services it became a major cloud provider, and it has built its own AI models, chips and assistants, including the Nova models and Trainium chips.

EnterpriseConsumer appsFoundation models

Ant Group is the company whose InclusionAI team released the open-weight Ling (Bailing) family of mixture-of-experts language models in 2025, including Ling-Lite and Ling-Plus, trained without premium GPUs and published under the MIT licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company founded in January 2021 by former OpenAI employees. It develops the Claude models and products, and its Responsible Scaling Policy sets out safety levels for its models.

Large language modelsEnterpriseFoundation models

Apple is a US technology company founded in 1976 that makes the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It introduced Apple Intelligence in 2024, builds its own Apple Foundation Models, and in 2026 agreed to build its next models with Google.

Consumer appsFoundation modelsHardware & compute

Baichuan Intelligence (百川智能) is a Beijing AI company founded in April 2023 by Wang Xiaochuan. It released open-source language models from 2023 and later focused on applying AI to healthcare.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

Baidu is a Beijing-based Chinese internet company founded in 2000. It runs China's dominant search engine and develops the ERNIE model family and the ERNIE Bot chatbot.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

ByteDance is a Chinese internet company founded in 2012, whose AI work includes the Doubao chatbot, the TRAE coding tool, the Seed model team and the Volcano Engine cloud platform.[^1]

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Cohere is a Toronto-based enterprise AI company founded in 2019. It builds the Command family of language models, sells them to businesses, and in September 2026 signed a definitive agreement to combine with Aleph Alpha.

Large language modelsEnterpriseAgents & tool use

Covariant is a robotics AI company founded in 2017 by researchers largely from UC Berkeley; in 2024 Amazon hired its founders and took a non-exclusive licence to its robotics foundation models.

EnterpriseFoundation modelsRobotics

The European AI Office is a body inside the European Commission that supports implementation of the EU AI Act and enforces the rules for general-purpose AI models. It was established in February 2024.

Foundation modelsSafety & governanceEurope

A public benefit AI company that introduced itself alongside its ESM3 model in June 2024 and whose team joined Biohub in November 2025.

Research historyFoundation modelsScience

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

Google, part of Alphabet, works on AI at several levels at once: it designs its own TPU chips, trains large language models such as PaLM and Gemini, and brought its research labs together as Google DeepMind in 2023.

Consumer appsFoundation modelsHardware & compute

A London-headquartered AI research organisation formed in 2023 by merging DeepMind with Google's Brain team, known for AlphaGo, AlphaFold and the Gemini model family.

Research historyDeep learningFoundation models

Hugging Face is an AI platform company founded in 2016. Its Hub shares models, datasets and demo apps, its libraries include Transformers, and in September 2026 Nvidia agreed to acquire it.

Open sourceFoundation modelsData & datasets

A Chinese artificial intelligence infrastructure company that builds the middle layer letting many models run on many kinds of chips, and also releases the open Megrez model family.

ChinaEnterpriseFoundation models

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