Companies

AAAI is an international nonprofit scientific society for artificial intelligence, founded in 1979, which runs a flagship annual conference and has published a quarterly magazine since 1980.

Research historyScienceSymbolic AI

Accel is a venture capital firm that describes itself as the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere. Its portfolio runs to hundreds of companies, and it invests at both seed and late stages, including several large AI-related rounds.

EnterpriseDeveloper toolsCloud

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.

Research historyEnterpriseAgents & tool use

The AI Now Institute is an American research institute, launched in 2017 in partnership with New York University, that studies the social implications of artificial intelligence and the concentration of power in the tech industry.

Research historySafety & governanceData & datasets

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

Anysphere is the company behind Cursor, an AI-assisted coding tool. Between 2024 and 2025 it raised four rounds, reaching a $29.3 billion valuation, over $1 billion in annualized revenue, and use by more than half of the Fortune 500.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is the main scientific and professional society for natural language processing. Founded in 1962, it runs one of the field's two leading conferences and publishes the journal Computational Linguistics.

Large language modelsResearch historyScience

A society for computing educators, researchers and professionals, founded in 1947 at Columbia University and headquartered in New York, with nearly 110,000 members and the Turing Award among its recognitions.

Research historyEnterpriseScience

Baidu Research is the research arm of Baidu, built around the Institute of Deep Learning founded in 2013, with laboratories in Beijing and Silicon Valley; in 2014 Andrew Ng became chief scientist in charge of the whole organisation.

Research historyChinaEnterprise

BIGAI is a non-profit AI research institute in Beijing, led by Zhu Songchun, that works with Peking and Tsinghua universities toward a unified theory of general intelligence and general intelligent agents.

Research historyChinaEducation

Bell Labs was the research arm of the Bell System, where the transistor, Unix and the C language were created. Yann LeCun's convolutional networks for handwritten digits were developed there, which made it an early home of neural-network research.

Research historyDeep learningHardware & compute

An independent, non-profit research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2004 with support from Eli and Edythe Broad, working to understand the roots of disease and turn biological insights into impact for patients.

Research historyScienceBiomedicine

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has one of the earliest US computer science departments. Its researchers built the Logic Theorist, Sphinx speech recognition and the Deep Blue lineage, and won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

Research historyDeep learningRobotics

A San Francisco nonprofit founded in 2022 that researches technical AI safety, builds the field of safety researchers, and advocates for safety standards — known for a 2023 statement on AI extinction risk signed by industry leaders.

Research historySafety & governanceScience

CloudWalk Technology is a Chinese AI company built on academic face recognition research. Founded in April 2015, it was the last of the four Chinese computer vision firms known as the "CV four little dragons" to be established.

Research historyChinaEnterprise

Windsurf, formerly Codeium, is an agentic IDE founded by Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen. In 2025 its technology was licensed to Google while its chief executive joined Google, and the company itself was acquired by Cognition.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

Cognition is the company behind Devin, introduced in March 2024 as the first autonomous software engineer, and the publisher of the FrontierCode benchmark, which judges AI-written code by whether a maintainer would merge it.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

CVPR is the annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, first held in 1983 and usually held in June in North America. It is known for selective, double-blind review and open-access papers.

Research historyDeep learningComputer vision