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| Accel 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. | |
| AI Now Institute 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. | 2017 |
| All Hands AI 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. | |
| AMD 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. | |
| Anthropic 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. | 2021 |
| Anysphere 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. | |
| Apollo Research Apollo Research is a research organization focused on the risk of scheming: advanced AI systems covertly pursuing misaligned objectives. It evaluates frontier models for this behavior and advises policymakers. | |
| Apple 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. | 1976 |
| Arup A British multinational design and engineering firm founded in 1946 by Sir Ove Arup, known for complex landmark projects such as the Sydney Opera House and for ownership held in trust for its employees. | 1946 |
| Baidu Research / Institute of Deep Learning 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. | |
| Bell Labs 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. | 1925 |
| Biren Technology Chinese chip designer founded in 2019 that builds general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) chips and intelligent computing solutions on its self-developed BILI series hardware and BIRENSUPA software, for AI training and inference from cloud to edge. | 2019 |
| Cambricon Technologies A Chinese AI chip company founded in 2016 and listed on the STAR Market in 2020. It designs cloud, edge and endpoint chips, and in 2025 it turned profitable as revenue rose sharply. | 2016 |
| Carnegie Mellon University 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. | 1900 |
| Center for AI Safety 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. | 2022 |
| Character.AI Character.AI is a chatbot company founded in 2021 by former Google engineers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, known for user-created AI characters; it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2026. | 2021 |
| Codeium (Windsurf) 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. | |
| Cognition 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. | 2024 |
| Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 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. | 1983 |
| Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) NeurIPS is an annual December conference on machine learning and computational neuroscience, founded in 1987 and counted among the most influential meetings in AI research. | 1987 |