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| Adept Adept is an AI company founded in 2022 that set out to train large multimodal models and turn them into agents, open-sourced the Fuyu-8B model in 2023, and shifted focus in 2024 when its co-founders joined Amazon. | 2022 |
| 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 |
| Insilico Medicine Insilico Medicine is a drug discovery company founded in the United States in 2014 that pairs an AI software platform, Pharma.AI, with its own pipeline of drug programmes and automated laboratory work. | 2014 |
| 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 |
| LG AI Research LG AI Research is the organisation behind EXAONE, a family of large language models it documents in technical reports and releases under its own EXAONE licence. | |
| Liquid AI Liquid AI is an MIT CSAIL spin-out that calls itself an efficiency-first foundation model company, arguing that models should run on local devices; its LFM3-Omni-2B is an omni-modal model published in October 2026. | |
| 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 |
| Microsoft AI Microsoft AI is the consumer AI organisation Microsoft formed in March 2024 to advance Copilot and its other AI products and research, led by Mustafa Suleyman. It develops the MAI family of in-house models. | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Mila – Quebec AI Institute Mila, the Quebec AI Institute, is a Montreal deep-learning institute founded in 1993 by Yoshua Bengio as LISA; its graduates include Ian Goodfellow and Hugo Larochelle. | 1993 |
| MiniMax MiniMax is a Shanghai-based AI company founded in December 2021 by computer-vision researchers from SenseTime. It builds text, speech and video models and consumer apps such as Talkie and Hailuo AI, and listed in Hong Kong in January 2026. | 2021 |
| Physical Intelligence 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. | |
| 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 |
| Reka AI 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. | |
| 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 |
| SenseTime SenseTime is a Chinese AI company founded in October 2014 and listed in Hong Kong at the end of 2021. It develops the SenseNova large models and, in 2026, reported its first IFRS net profit since listing. | 2014 |
| 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 |
| StepFun StepFun (阶跃星辰) is a Shanghai AI company founded in April 2023 by former Microsoft staff. It builds multimodal Step-series models and has open-sourced several of them. | 2023 |