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

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

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

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

Aleph Alpha is the company behind Kolibri, an open-weight model released on 3 October 2026 and built around data sovereignty and German-language specialisation rather than raw scale.

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

Nonprofit AI research institute founded by Paul Allen in 2014 and based in Seattle, known for Semantic Scholar and for the openly released OLMo family of language models, whose training data, code and checkpoints are published alongside the weights.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

All Hands AI builds OpenHands, an open platform for AI agents that do software development work: working from conversations tied to repositories, opening pull requests and running automations.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

AMD is a chip designer whose data center AI business centres on Instinct GPUs and APUs, expanded through the Xilinx and ZT Systems acquisitions and capped by a 6-gigawatt OpenAI supply deal.

Open sourceHardware & computeDeveloper tools

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

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

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

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company founded in Hangzhou in July 2023 as a spin-off of the AGI research lab of High-Flyer, a hedge fund. It releases its main models with open weights.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina

EleutherAI is a grassroots AI research collective that began as a Discord server in July 2020. It released The Pile and the open GPT-style models GPT-Neo, GPT-J and GPT-NeoX-20B, and in 2023 it became a nonprofit research institute.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

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 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

LangChain is the company behind the open-source LangChain and LangGraph frameworks and the commercial LangSmith platform, which developers use to observe, evaluate and deploy applications built on large language models.

Open sourceEnterpriseAgents & tool use

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.

Large language modelsOpen sourceFoundation models

LMSYS (Large Model Systems) is a non-profit that started as a multi-university collaboration in 2023 and became an incorporated organisation in September 2024, building open models, serving systems and evaluation platforms such as Chatbot Arena, SGLang, FastChat and Vicuna.

Large language modelsResearch historyOpen source

Meituan's LongCat team released LongCat-Flash, a 560-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts language model that activates roughly 27 billion parameters per token on average and ships with open weights under the MIT licence.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina