AI companies

Who builds what, and the product to try first.

25 listed, ranked by your votes. Every one was opened and checked by hand before it went up.

Shortlist

  1. 01Screenshot of OpenAI
    OpenAI

    Trains the GPT models and runs ChatGPT, the chat assistant and its developer API.

    Model lab|openai.com ↗

    Try first: ChatGPT

  2. 02Screenshot of Anthropic
    Anthropic

    Trains the Claude models and ships them as a chat app, a terminal agent and an API.

    Model lab|anthropic.com ↗

    Try first: Claude

  3. 03Screenshot of Google DeepMind
    Google DeepMind

    Runs inside Google as its AI lab, behind Gemini, the Veo video models and AlphaFold.

    Model lab|deepmind.google ↗

    Try first: Gemini

  4. 04Screenshot of Hugging Face
    Hugging Face

    Hosts the hub where most open models, datasets and demo apps actually live.

    Developer & infrastructure|huggingface.co ↗

    Try first: the Hub

  5. 05Screenshot of Mistral AI
    Mistral AI

    French lab training open-weight models, with Vibe as its chat and coding agent.

    Model lab|mistral.ai ↗

    Try first: Mistral Vibe

  6. 06Screenshot of DeepSeek
    DeepSeek

    Chinese lab publishing open-weight reasoning models, with a free chat app and cheap API.

    Model lab|deepseek.com ↗

    Try first: DeepSeek

  7. 07Screenshot of Ollama
    Ollama

    Pull and run open models on your own machine with a single command.

    Developer & infrastructure|ollama.com ↗

    Try first: Ollama

  8. 08Screenshot of Black Forest Labs
    Black Forest Labs

    Releases the FLUX models, several open-weight, now covering image, video and audio together.

    Creative & media|bfl.ai ↗

    Try first: FLUX 3

  9. 09Screenshot of Ai2
    Ai2

    Nonprofit institute releasing Olmo, a language model whose weights, data and training code are public.

    Model lab|allenai.org ↗

    Try first: Olmo

  10. 10Screenshot of Granola
    Granola

    Takes meeting notes from your computer's audio without sending a bot into the call.

    Applications|granola.ai ↗

    Try first: Granola

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Model lab 1

Developer & infrastructure 4

  • Braintrust

    Logs what an AI agent did, scores the output, and shows where quality slipped.

  • turbopuffer

    Vector and full-text search built on object storage, so retrieval stays cheap at scale.

  • Groq

    Designs its own inference chips and sells the resulting speed through a cloud API.

  • Replicate

    Run thousands of open models through one API without ever touching a GPU.

Applications 5

  • Sierra

    Builds customer-service agents that hold a conversation, follow policy and resolve the ticket.

  • Abridge

    Listens to a doctor-patient visit and turns it into the clinical note and billing codes.

  • Cognition

    Runs Devin, a coding agent that takes a ticket and opens the pull request.

  • Glean

    Searches every work app a company uses, then lets staff build agents on top.

  • Harvey

    Drafts, reviews and researches legal work for law firms and in-house legal teams.

Creative & media 5

  • Bria

    Image models trained only on licensed pictures, with the sources tracked and paid.

  • Krea

    Generate and edit images and video on a canvas that updates as you type.

  • Stability AI

    Makes audio, image, video and 3D models you can license and run on your own hardware.

  • Cartesia

    Real-time speech models fast enough to hold a conversation, plus transcription and voice agents.

  • Luma AI

    Trains the Ray video models and wraps them in agents that handle a whole edit.

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