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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.

EnterpriseDeveloper toolsCloud

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.

Research historySafety & governanceData & datasets

2017
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)

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

2014
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.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

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.

Open sourceHardware & computeDeveloper tools

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.

Large language modelsEnterpriseFoundation 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.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

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.

Agents & tool useSafety & governanceScience

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.

Consumer appsFoundation modelsHardware & compute

1976
Arena Intelligence

Arena Intelligence is the company formed in 2025 by the team behind Chatbot Arena; it runs the LMArena model-comparison platform and states that it has 250 million dollars in venture funding.

Large language modelsEnterpriseData & datasets

2025
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.

EnterpriseSafety & governanceIndustrial automation

1946
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.

Research historySafety & governanceScience

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.

Large language modelsConsumer appsSafety & governance

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.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

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.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

2024
CoreWeave

A New Jersey cloud company that began as an ethereum miner and became a large-scale GPU computing provider for AI, backed by NVIDIA and listed on Nasdaq in 2025 alongside a major OpenAI deal.

EnterpriseHardware & computeData & datasets

2017
Cruise

Cruise was a San Francisco autonomous-vehicle company founded in 2013 and acquired by General Motors in 2016; it ran paid driverless rides in San Francisco before its permits were suspended and GM wound the business down.

EnterpriseConsumer appsRobotics

2013
Cyberspace Administration of China

The State Internet Information Office — the Cyberspace Administration of China — is the Chinese body that manages online information content, from news licensing and website enforcement to algorithm rules and AI content labeling.

ChinaSafety & governanceData & datasets

2011
Databricks

Databricks is a San Francisco software company founded in 2013 by seven people behind Apache Spark, which grew out of the University of California, Berkeley AMPLab project [1][2]. Its valuation rose from $38 billion in 2021 to $188 billion in 2026 [4][11].

Large language modelsEnterpriseData & datasets

2013
EleutherAI

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

2020