1X Technologies
1X Technologies, formerly Halodi Robotics, is an OpenAI-backed humanoid-robot maker building the EVE and NEO androids, NEO aimed at the home.
Organizations
The labs and companies driving the field.
133 entries, all primary-sourced
Agility Robotics
Agility Robotics builds Digit, a bipedal humanoid robot designed for warehouse and logistics work and among the first commercially deployed humanoids.
AI21 Labs
Israeli AI company founded in 2017 by Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen, and Amnon Shashua, maker of the Jurassic and Jamba language models.
Alibaba Qwen team
The Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, which develops the widely used open Qwen family of language, multimodal, and coding models.
Alignment Research Center (ARC)
A nonprofit founded by Paul Christiano that researches theoretical AI alignment and spun out the evaluations team that became METR.
Amazon
The retail and cloud giant that built the Alexa voice-assistant category and became a major AI investor through its multibillion-dollar stake in Anthropic.
Anthropic
AI safety and research company, maker of the Claude AI models, founded by former OpenAI researchers including Dario and Daniela Amodei.
ANYbotics and the ANYmal robot
ANYbotics is an ETH Zurich spinoff whose ANYmal quadruped robot does autonomous industrial inspection in oil, gas, and energy facilities.
Anyscale
The company founded by the creators of Ray to offer a managed platform for scaling AI and Python workloads across clusters.
Apollo Research
An AI safety lab specializing in evaluations that detect deception and scheming in frontier language models.
Apple
The consumer-hardware company that has repeatedly put AI in front of mass audiences, from Siri in 2011 to the OS-level Apple Intelligence in 2024.
Apptronik and the Apollo humanoid
Apptronik is a University of Texas spinoff whose Apollo humanoid robot is built for mass manufacture and safe work alongside people in warehouses and factories.
ASML
The Dutch company that is the sole supplier of EUV lithography machines, the equipment needed to make the most advanced chips - a chokepoint in the chip story.
Baidu
Chinese technology company that built ERNIE Bot, China's first mover in the ChatGPT wave of generative AI chatbots.
Black Forest Labs
AI lab launched in August 2024 by the core team behind Stable Diffusion and Latent Diffusion, maker of the FLUX.1 image-generation models.
BrainGate
An academic research consortium that has run implanted brain-computer interface trials since 2004, letting paralyzed people control devices by thought.
Catapult Sports
Catapult Sports makes wearable athlete-tracking devices used by thousands of elite teams to measure load and movement.
Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
A nonprofit working to reduce societal-scale risks from AI, known for the 2023 Statement on AI Risk and the WMDP benchmark.
Cerebras Systems
Cerebras builds the Wafer-Scale Engine, the largest computer chip ever made, for AI training and high-speed inference.
Character.AI
Character.AI lets users chat with millions of customizable AI characters; founded in 2021 by two ex-Google engineers, it became a defining AI-companion app.
Chroma
An open-source embedding database designed to be the easy default vector store for AI applications, from in-memory prototypes to a hosted cloud service.
Cohere
Enterprise AI company founded in Toronto in 2019 by Aidan Gomez and colleagues, building the Command language models, embeddings, and retrieval tools.
Common Crawl
The nonprofit that has crawled the open web since 2008 and gives away the resulting corpus, which underlies much of the text used to train large language models
Conjecture
An AI safety company co-founded by Connor Leahy that builds controllable AI architectures around its Cognitive Emulation approach.
Crusoe
Crusoe is the developer behind Stargate's flagship Abilene, Texas AI data center campus, scaling to 1.2 GW and built to host hundreds of thousands of GPUs.
D-Wave Systems
The company, founded 1999, that built the first commercial quantum computers, using quantum annealing to attack optimization and machine-learning problems.
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
The US defense research agency founded in 1958 that funded much of the early work behind computing, networks, and AI.
DeepMind (Google DeepMind)
AI research lab founded in 2010, acquired by Google in 2014, known for AlphaGo and AlphaFold, now part of Google DeepMind.
DeepSeek
Chinese AI lab behind the open DeepSeek model lines, known for reasoning models trained with reinforcement learning.
FAR.AI
A nonprofit that funds and runs technical AI safety research and convenes the field through its Alignment Workshop series.
Figure AI
Figure AI is a Sunnyvale startup building general-purpose humanoid robots, beginning with Figure 01, aimed at warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics work.
Frontier Development Lab (FDL)
Frontier Development Lab is an applied AI research program that runs intensive sprints on space and Earth science with NASA and ESA.
Global Fishing Watch
A nonprofit that uses machine learning on satellite and vessel-tracking data to map global fishing activity and publish it for free.
Google Brain
Google's deep learning research team, started in 2011, merged with DeepMind in 2023 to form Google DeepMind.
Grammarly
A writing-assistance company founded in 2009 whose grammar-correction technology grew into an AI writing assistant used across millions of apps.
Groq
The chip company building the LPU, a deterministic inference processor that keeps model weights in on-chip SRAM to serve language models at high speed.
Hawk-Eye Innovations
Hawk-Eye Innovations is the camera-based ball and player tracking company behind tennis, cricket, and football officiating.
Hugging Face
The open AI platform and community hub for sharing machine-learning models, datasets, and applications.
Human Brain Project
The EU's ten-year, billion-euro flagship to simulate and understand the human brain, running from 2013 to 2023.
Hume AI
Hume AI builds voice models that read and respond to emotion in the human voice; its Empathic Voice Interface launched in 2024.
IBM
The company behind Deep Blue and Watson, now building open enterprise AI through its Granite models and watsonx platform.
LAION
The volunteer-driven nonprofit that released the open image-text datasets, including LAION-5B, used to train Stable Diffusion and other generative image models.
Maersk Captain Peter (Remote Container Management)
Maersk's data service that monitors refrigerated shipping containers in near real time, alerting customers when cargo conditions drift out of range.
Megvii (Face++)
Megvii is a Chinese AI company, founded in 2011, whose Face++ platform made it a leading provider of facial recognition technology.
Meta AI
Meta's AI division, heir to its FAIR research lab and developer of the open-weight Llama models.
METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research)
An independent nonprofit that runs autonomy and dangerous-capability evaluations on frontier AI models before they ship.
Microsoft
The software giant whose AI arc runs from the 2016 Tay chatbot through its multibillion-dollar OpenAI partnership to the Copilot product line.
Mistral AI
French AI lab building frontier models, known for open-weight releases and enterprise deployment flexibility.