Perplexity is an American AI-powered search and answer-engine company founded in 2022 by former OpenAI researcher Aravind Srinivas, developer of the Perplexity search product and the Comet AI-native browser, valued at approximately $20 billion as of 2026.
Cursor is the AI coding application built by Anysphere, an American AI startup founded in 2022 by four MIT graduates, the fastest-scaling B2B software company on record at $2 billion ARR three years from launch.
Together AI is an American AI cloud and infrastructure company founded in 2022, providing GPU compute, foundation-model fine-tuning, and inference services to AI developers, with a open-source research portfolio including RedPajama and Striped Hyena.
Snowflake AI is the artificial intelligence research and product division of Snowflake, the publicly listed enterprise data-cloud company, developer of the Arctic open-weights mixture-of-experts model and the Cortex AI platform powering enterprise generative AI workloads.
Salesforce AI Research is the AI research division of Salesforce, the publicly listed enterprise CRM company, developer of the xLAM Large Action Models, xGen, BLIP, CodeT5, SFR-Embedding, and the Agentforce agentic AI platform.
NVIDIA Research is the research division of NVIDIA, the dominant global AI compute infrastructure provider, with a foundation-model portfolio spanning the Nemotron, Cosmos, GR00T, and BioNeMo families and the cross-organization Nemotron Coalition launched in March 2026.
Databricks is an American enterprise data and AI platform founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark, developer of the Mosaic AI platform and the DBRX open-weights model, and at $134 billion valuation one of the largest private enterprise-software companies globally.
Tsinghua KEG is the Knowledge Engineering Group at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the academic research group that produced the foundational GLM, ChatGLM, and CogView research and incubated the Z.ai (Zhipu AI) commercial spinout.
KAIST is the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, a national research university in Daejeon, South Korea, with a leading AI research program and a new College of AI launching in 2026.
MIT CSAIL is the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, the largest interdepartmental research lab on campus and one of the principal academic AI research organizations globally, with over 125 faculty and 1,700 members.
Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science is one of the principal academic AI research organizations globally, founded in 1988 and home to influential research in robotics, machine learning, language technologies, and the historical foundations of contemporary AI.
Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) is the artificial intelligence research lab at UC Berkeley, one of the principal academic AI research organizations globally and home to foundational research on reinforcement learning, robotics, and the open-source Vicuna and Koala LLM fine-tunes.
Stanford HAI is the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, an interdisciplinary research center founded in 2019, with the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) leading academic foundation-model and AI evaluation research.
BigScience was an international AI research collaboration coordinated by Hugging Face from 2021 to 2022, producing the BLOOM 176-billion-parameter multilingual language model and demonstrating the viability of open, distributed AI research at frontier scale.
Nous Research is an open-source AI research startup founded in 2023, developer of the Hermes family of fine-tuned open-weights language models, the Forge agentic platform, and the Solana-based DisTrO decentralized training network.
LAION is a German nonprofit research organization founded in 2021, creator of the LAION-5B image-text dataset that underpinned Stable Diffusion and the OpenCLIP open-source vision-language model line.
Mila is the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, a Montreal-based academic AI research collaboration founded in 1993 by deep-learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio, hosting over 140 professors and one of the largest concentrations of academic AI research talent in North America.
EleutherAI is a nonprofit open-source AI research organization founded in 2020 as a Discord-based research collective, developer of GPT-Neo, GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, and the Pythia interpretability suite, and creator of The Pile training dataset.
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is a Seattle-based nonprofit artificial intelligence research institute founded in 2014 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, developer of the OLMo, Tülu, and Molmo families of fully open-weights and open-data foundation models.
Yandex is a Russian internet company founded in 1997 by Arkady Volozh, developer of the YandexGPT and YandexART foundation models for the Russian market, with operations split in 2024 between the Russian-domiciled Yandex business and the Western-domiciled Nebius Group AI infrastructure successor.
Upstage is a South Korean enterprise AI startup founded in 2020 by former Naver AI head Sung Kim, developer of the Solar family of large language models and Document Parse, the first generative AI unicorn in Korea.
SK Telecom is South Korea's largest mobile network operator, developer of the A.X family of Korean foundation models and the Adot consumer AI assistant, and lead of the Global Telco AI Alliance bringing five international telecommunications companies into a coordinated AI strategy.
LG AI Research is the artificial intelligence research subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate LG, developer of the EXAONE family of large language models including the K-EXAONE Korean sovereign foundation model.
Naver Cloud is the AI and cloud-services subsidiary of South Korean internet giant Naver, developer of the HyperCLOVA X family of Korean-language large language models, the principal Korean sovereign-AI provider.
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