Companies
NVIDIA
Computing company pioneering accelerated computing and AI. Dominant in GPU hardware, CUDA ecosystem, and AI infrastructure.
OpenAI
AI research company focused on ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Creator of GPT series, DALL-E, and ChatGPT.
Google DeepMind
World-leading AI research lab and subsidiary of Alphabet. Pioneers in deep reinforcement learning, AlphaFold, and Gemini models.
Anthropic
AI safety company developing reliable, interpretable AI systems. Creator of Claude series of AI assistants.
Meta AI
Meta's AI research division. Creators of Llama open-source models, PyTorch framework, and FAIR research lab.
Amazon Web Services
Leading cloud computing platform. Offers AI services including Bedrock, SageMaker, and Trainium accelerators.
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's cloud computing platform. Deep OpenAI partnership with exclusive model access. Azure OpenAI Service.
Hugging Face
The AI community platform. Hosts models, datasets, and spaces. Creator of Transformers library and inference infrastructure.
Google Cloud
Google's cloud platform. Home to Vertex AI, TPU accelerators, and Gemini API access.
CoreWeave
Specialized GPU cloud provider for AI/ML workloads. Platinum tier for AI training according to SemiAnalysis.
Anysphere
Creator of Cursor, the AI-first code editor. Pioneered AI-native IDE with tab completion and chat-based coding.
Databricks
Data and AI platform company. Acquired MosaicML for DBRX model development. Lakehouse architecture for ML.
Mistral AI
European AI company building efficient, open-weight foundation models. Known for Mistral and Mixtral model series.
Perplexity AI
AI-powered answer engine combining search with LLM generation. Known for real-time web search and citation-based answers.
Tencent
Chinese tech conglomerate. Developer of Hunyuan LLM and AI-powered services across gaming, social, and cloud.
LangChain
Framework for building LLM applications. Creator of LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith observability platform.
Cognition Labs
AI company developing Devin, the first AI software engineer. Acquired Windsurf (Codeium). Pioneer in autonomous coding agents.
Alibaba Cloud
Leading cloud provider in Asia. Developer of Qwen model series and Tongyi AI platform.
DeepSeek
Chinese AI research company developing cost-efficient foundation models with strong reasoning capabilities.
Together AI
AI cloud platform for training and inference. Fast inference API for open-source models.
Baidu
Chinese tech giant and search leader. Developer of ERNIE series LLMs and autonomous driving technology.
xAI
AI company founded by Elon Musk. Developer of Grok AI assistant integrated with X (Twitter).
Weaviate
AI-native vector database company. Open-source vector search engine with HNSW indexing, product quantization, and hybrid search. Powers RAG applications for enterprises.
Replit
Browser-based IDE with AI-powered coding assistant. Replit Agent for autonomous app development.
AMD
Semiconductor company producing CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators. MI300X series competing in datacenter AI market.
Cohere
Enterprise AI company focused on NLP. Command R series for enterprise RAG and generation.
Moonshot AI
Chinese AI company developing Kimi conversational AI and long-context models. Known for 200k+ token context windows.
Lambda Labs
GPU cloud and workstation provider for deep learning. Popular for on-demand H100 instances.
Cerebras Systems
AI chip company with wafer-scale engine. World's largest AI chip with 900,000 cores.
IBM
Technology and consulting company. Developer of Granite enterprise AI models and watsonx platform.
Abacus.AI
AI/ML platform for enterprise AI agents and assistants. World's first AI super assistant and general-purpose agent platform with 6,000+ customers.
Minimax
Chinese AI startup known for multimodal models and Hailuo AI video generation. Strong in creative AI applications.
Groq
AI chip company with Language Processing Unit (LPU). Known for extremely fast inference speeds.
Zhipu AI
Chinese AI company spun out from Tsinghua University. Developer of GLM series models and ChatGLM.
AI21 Labs
Enterprise AI company developing Jamba and Jurassic model series. Pioneer in enterprise NLP applications.
01.AI
AI company founded by Kai-Fu Lee. Developer of Yi series open-source models with strong bilingual capabilities.
Xiaomi
Chinese consumer electronics company. Developing MiMo AI models for smart home and device integration.
Writer
Enterprise AI writing platform. Developer of Palmyra LLM series optimized for business content generation.
Stability AI
Open-source AI company known for Stable Diffusion image generation. Pioneer in democratizing generative AI.
CrewAI
Multi-agent orchestration framework. Enables teams of AI agents to collaborate on complex tasks.
Kuaishou
Chinese short video platform. Developer of Kwaipilot coding assistant and AI-powered content tools.
Fireworks AI
AI inference platform optimizing open-source model deployment. Known for fast, cost-efficient inference.
10x Science
The AI-native platform for next-generation protein characterization. YC Winter 2026.
Hlabs
Developer friendly robotics YC Winter 2026.
21st
Ai programming tools YC Winter 2026.
Bidflow
AI Copilot for Electrical Estimating YC Winter 2026.
Lexius
AI Crime Detection YC Winter 2026.
Sarah AI
AI Agents for CPG ops YC Winter 2026.
Avoice
The AI Workspace For Architects YC Winter 2026.
Protent
AI intelligence for mission-critical operations YC Winter 2026.