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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
Alibaba Cloud

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

2009
Alibaba Group

Alibaba Group is a technology company founded in 1999 that describes itself as focused on AI + Cloud and commerce; its Qwen models and data centre build-out are central to that positioning.

ChinaEnterpriseConsumer apps

1999
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

Amazon

Amazon is the American technology company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Through Amazon Web Services it became a major cloud provider, and it has built its own AI models, chips and assistants, including the Nova models and Trainium chips.

EnterpriseConsumer appsFoundation models

1994
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
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
Baidu

Baidu is a Beijing-based Chinese internet company founded in 2000. It runs China's dominant search engine and develops the ERNIE model family and the ERNIE Bot chatbot.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

2000
Blue Owl Capital

Blue Owl Capital is an alternative asset manager with $330 billion in assets under management, built from three separate businesses: Oak Street in real estate, Dyal Capital in stakes in other asset managers, and Owl Rock in private credit.

EnterpriseConsumer appsCloud

ByteDance

ByteDance is a Chinese internet company founded in 2012, whose AI work includes the Doubao chatbot, the TRAE coding tool, the Seed model team and the Volcano Engine cloud platform.[^1]

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

2012
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
Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Systems is an American AI chip company founded in 2015 that builds wafer-scale processors — single chips made from a whole silicon wafer — and the computers around them, from the WSE and CS-1 to the WSE-3 and CS-3.

Large language modelsHardware & computeCloud

2015
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
Coatue

Coatue is an investment firm that puts money to work in both public and private technology markets, with a private portfolio of more than 250 tech companies and a growing profile in AI through backing for Anthropic and Anysphere.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useCloud

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