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AI companies by group

These eight groups cover model makers, AI search, generative media, infrastructure, developer tools, data and MLOps, enterprise AI assistants, and specialized AI. Some companies work across several areas; each appears once in this guide.

You might research with one AI, write code with another, and make images with a third. Keep your brief, source links, and decisions usable beyond a single tool, so your work stays with you when you switch.

Foundation models

  • OpenAI — Makes ChatGPT for conversations and projects, and Codex for coding work.
  • Anthropic — Makes Claude for conversations and document work, and Claude Code for coding.
  • Google DeepMind — Provides Gemini conversations, coding tools, and research grounded in uploaded sources.
  • Microsoft AI — Provides Copilot for everyday work, GitHub Copilot for coding, and Copilot Studio for building assistants.
  • Meta AI — Offers an assistant across Meta apps, the web, and supported AI glasses.
  • Mistral AI — Builds AI models and Vibe, the work assistant formerly called Le Chat.
  • Cohere — Supplies enterprise AI models and North, a workspace for company information and assistants.
  • xAI — Makes Grok, an assistant for chat, voice, files, generated media, and connected tools.
  • DeepSeek — Provides a consumer AI assistant and a separate developer model API.

AI search

  • Perplexity — Answers questions using web information and source links, with a separate browser assistant.
  • Glean — Combines workplace search with an assistant and tools for company workflows.
  • Genspark — Uses Super Agent to carry out work with connected tools, files, and presentation tools.

Generative media

  • Midjourney — Creates images from text and references, and animates images into videos.
  • Black Forest Labs — Develops FLUX models for generating and editing media.
  • Runway — Provides generative-media tools with reusable references, assets, and downloadable outputs.
  • HeyGen — Creates avatar videos and translates existing spoken videos.
  • ElevenLabs — Provides speech generation, voice cloning, creative audio tools, and conversational voice assistants.
  • Gamma — Creates editable presentations, documents, and web pages with AI.
  • Krea AI — Generates, edits, and enhances images and video, including a live creative canvas.
  • Fal — Hosts media-generation models and tools for running generations from other applications.

AI infrastructure

  • Groq — Provides hosted APIs that run language and other AI models for applications.
  • SambaNova Systems — Offers hosted model inference through SambaCloud and deployments through SambaStack.
  • NVIDIA — Supplies AI software for deploying models, developing applications, and operating assistants.
  • Crusoe — Provides cloud infrastructure and managed services for training and running AI models.
  • CoreWeave — Provides cloud computing, storage, and development tools for AI workloads.

Developer tools

  • Hugging Face — Hosts models, datasets, and app demos, with chat and hosted-model APIs.
  • Cursor — Provides a coding environment with an assistant that can work across files, commands, and a browser.
  • Cognition — Builds Devin for writing, running, and testing code through cloud, command-line, and desktop tools.
  • Replit — Provides a cloud editor where an AI assistant and people can build and publish applications.
  • Lovable — Builds and edits web application code from conversations, with previews and publishing tools.
  • Baseten — Hosts model APIs and infrastructure for deploying and serving models.
  • Fireworks AI — Hosts open models and training services, with connections for existing coding tools.

Data and MLOps

  • Databricks — Combines a governed data workspace with AI tools for business questions and coding.
  • Snowflake — Provides a governed data platform and tools for using AI with enterprise data.
  • Scale AI — Supplies AI training and evaluation data and builds systems for organizations.
  • Mercor — Connects domain experts with work that trains and evaluates AI systems.

Enterprise AI agents

  • Clay — Combines business-data enrichment, AI research, and workflows for sales and marketing teams.
  • Sierra — Builds conversational assistants that retrieve information and carry out business workflows.
  • Decagon — Provides enterprise conversational assistants across chat, voice, and email.
  • C3 AI — Provides enterprise AI applications and a platform for building and operating them.

Vertical AI

  • Harvey — Supports legal and professional work through document analysis, research, and shared workspaces.
  • Rogo — Provides financial institutions with AI research, projects, firm knowledge, and meeting notes.
  • EliseAI — Provides AI-assisted communications and operations software for housing and healthcare organizations.
  • OpenEvidence — Answers professional clinical questions with medical references. Never save patient or confidential details.
  • Abridge — Supplies AI-assisted clinical documentation for healthcare organizations. Never save patient or confidential details.
  • Anduril — Builds defense technology, including autonomous systems and the Lattice software platform.
  • Physical Intelligence — Develops robot foundation models that turn observations and instructions into actions.
  • Skild AI — Develops general-purpose robot intelligence intended for different robot bodies and tasks.
  • Applied Intuition — Builds software for developing, testing, and operating intelligent vehicles and physical systems.
  • Chai Discovery — Develops AI for molecular structure prediction and molecular design.