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Agentic AI Foundation

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

2025
AGNTCY

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

2025
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
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
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
Black Forest Labs

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

2024
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
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
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
European AI Office

The European AI Office is a body inside the European Commission that supports implementation of the EU AI Act and enforces the rules for general-purpose AI models. It was established in February 2024.

Foundation modelsSafety & governanceEurope

2024
European Commission

The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union: it proposes laws and policies, monitors how they are applied, manages the EU budget and represents the EU externally.

EnterpriseSafety & governanceEurope

Federal Communications Commission

The FCC is the US agency that administers the Communications Act of 1934. In 2024 it confirmed that restrictions on artificial or prerecorded voices already cover AI-generated voices, and proposed a US$6 million robocall penalty.

Consumer appsSafety & governanceData & datasets

Insilico Medicine

Insilico Medicine is a drug discovery company founded in the United States in 2014 that pairs an AI software platform, Pharma.AI, with its own pipeline of drug programmes and automated laboratory work.

ChinaEnterpriseGenerative models

2014
Kuaishou Technology

Kuaishou Technology is a Beijing-based short-video and live-streaming company, founded in 2011 as GIF Kuaishou. It listed in Hong Kong in 2021 and builds the Kling video generation model.

ChinaConsumer appsGenerative models

2011
Luma AI

Luma AI is a generative AI company founded in 2021 in Redwood City, California, known for the Dream Machine video app, the Ray3 video model and the Luma Agents platform, with more than $1.1 billion raised.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

2021
Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute, MIRI is a Berkeley nonprofit that was among the first to treat artificial intelligence risk as a technical research problem, and now advocates halting work on smarter-than-human AI.

Research historySafety & governanceScience

2000