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01.AI01.AI (official site 01.ai) is an enterprise-focused AI company building foundation-model and “agentic” deployments, marketed around an “AI decision hub” concept that aims to convert enterprise data and organizational context into decision-making and action loops.
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10 Downing Street10 Downing Street (Prime Minister’s Office) is the UK Prime Minister’s official office and residence complex. The office supports the Prime Minister in establishing and delivering the government’s overall strategy and policy priorities, and in communicating government policies to Parliament, the…
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11x11x builds “autonomous digital workers” for go-to-market (GTM) and revenue operations teams. Rather than providing sales engagement software that assists humans, 11x positions its agents as end-to-end workers for outbound prospecting and engagement as well as inbound lead handling, using a shared…
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1X1X (1x.tech) is a Palo Alto, California-based AI and robotics company focused on building general-purpose humanoid robots intended to perform real work for people at home and (initially) in other environments. The company’s flagship consumer product is NEO, described as a “friendly home robot”…
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80,000 Hours80,000 Hours is a London-based nonprofit organization that helps people find and transition into careers that tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Its core programs combine (1) research and content that ranks high-impact career directions and explains how to think about career decisions under…
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AbridgeAbridge is a private, enterprise-grade healthcare AI company focused on “clinical conversation intelligence”: converting real-world clinician–patient conversations into structured, clinically useful documentation, evidence, and downstream workflow outputs inside health systems’ existing…
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Abundance InstituteAbundance Institute is a mission-driven U.S. nonprofit that focuses on the cultural and policy barriers facing emerging technologies—particularly artificial intelligence—so these technologies can “grow” and “reach their full potential.” Its stated approach combines (1) policy analysis and advocacy…
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ActivateActivate is a nonprofit that runs the Activate Fellowship—an intensive, two-year U.S. program designed to turn scientists and engineers into founders of hard-tech startups. The Fellowship pairs early-stage funding with technical resources, education (e.g., entrepreneurship curriculum), and ongoing…
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Advanced Research and Invention AgencyAdvanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) is a UK executive non-departmental public body (sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, DSIT) created to fund high-risk, high-reward R&D in underexplored areas, with the goal of enabling breakthrough scientific and…
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AE StudioAE Studio (doing business as Agency Enterprise, LLC) is a Los Angeles-based AI company that combines “frontier” AI alignment research with production software delivery. The company describes itself as bootstrapped (no outside investors) and operating both research and applied engineering “under one…
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AgentOpsAgentOps (agentops.ai) is a developer platform for building, testing, debugging, and deploying AI agents and LLM apps. The core product is an observability and “time-travel” session replay layer that captures runtime events (LLM calls, tool calls, multi-agent interactions), allowing engineers to…
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Agility RoboticsAgility Robotics (agilityrobotics.com) builds Digit, a humanoid robot designed to perform logistics and manufacturing tasks in human workplaces, and Agility Arc, a cloud platform for deploying and operating Digit fleets. The company positions Digit as a “general-purpose humanoid” for enterprise…
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AI Evaluator ForumThe AI Evaluator Forum (AEF) is a standards-oriented consortium that brings together independent AI evaluation organizations to improve the credibility and public-interest value of third-party assessments of advanced AI systems. Its core work is to develop shared “independence, access, and…
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AI Futures ProjectAI Futures Project is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit research group focused on scenario forecasting for advanced AI and (relatedly) strategic preparedness. Its core work centers on probabilistic timelines and “takeoff”-style modeling of AI capability progress, and on translating those forecasts into…
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AI Objectives InstituteAI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit AI research and R&D lab focused on “decoding and realigning incentives” that shape the trajectory of advanced AI and broader economic/social systems. AOI’s stated emphasis is on ensuring that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed…
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AI Policy InstituteAI Policy Institute (AIPI) is an independent, donor-supported 501(c)(3) organization focused on producing research and survey polling about the trajectory, capabilities, and public-policy implications of advanced AI systems. Its stated model is to track US public opinion on AI risks and policy…
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AI Safety CampAI Safety Camp (“AISC”) is an AI-safety field-building organization that runs project-based research programs to help people develop and execute concrete AI-safety work in teams. The core mechanism is team formation around participant-proposed or participant-selected projects: project leads submit…
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AI Verify FoundationAI Verify Foundation (AIVF) is a Singapore-based, not-for-profit standards and assurance consortium that develops open-source AI governance testing tools and related processes for evaluating and reporting trustworthiness of AI systems and applications. It positions itself as a neutral community for…
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AI Whistleblower InitiativeThe AI Whistleblower Initiative (AIWI) is an independent non-profit focused on improving how “frontier AI” insiders can raise credible safety or misconduct concerns and get them acted on. Its stated approach combines (1) early, specialized guidance for potential whistleblowers (including…
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AI21 LabsAI21 Labs is an enterprise-focused generative AI company building foundation-model and “AI system” layers intended for reliable deployment in high-value, data-intensive workflows. Its current platform positioning centers on (1) the Jamba family of long-context, open-weight hybrid (SSM-Transformer)…
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Alan Turing InstituteThe Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s independent national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, headquartered at the British Library in London. It was created in 2015 to advance “great leaps” in data science and AI research for the public good, with stated goals spanning (1)…
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Aleph AlphaAleph Alpha is a German AI company focused on building “sovereign” AI systems for enterprises and public institutions in regulated, data-sensitive environments. On its website, the company positions its work around specialized large language models (SLLMs) designed for domain-specific performance,…
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Alignment Research CenterAlignment Research Center (ARC) is a nonprofit research organization focused on scalable AI alignment methods, with an emphasis on mechanistic prediction of neural network behavior. ARC’s stated core technical direction is designing algorithms that estimate neural network behavior by analyzing a…
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Allen Institute for AIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2) is a Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen, focused on building and advancing “truly open” AI to solve major scientific and societal problems. Ai2’s stated mission is to build breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest…
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Ambience HealthcareAmbience Healthcare is a private healthcare AI company building an “ambient” clinical documentation and workflow platform for health systems. Its platform is positioned as end-to-end coverage across the visit lifecycle (pre-visit, in-visit, and post-visit) and across care settings, with the stated…
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AMDAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is a public semiconductor company focused on high-performance and AI computing. The company’s strategy centers on delivering “full-stack” compute—combining AI accelerators, general-purpose CPUs, networking, and software—into server and rack-scale systems for cloud,…
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American Academy of Arts and SciencesAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences works on interdisciplinary scholarship, policy studies, and convening across science, the humanities, arts, and public affairs.
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American Association for the Advancement of ScienceThe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a U.S.-based international nonprofit organization founded in 1848 that advances science and serves society through scientific publishing, science-policy programs, and science education and public engagement. AAAS convenes the…
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Americans for Responsible InnovationAmericans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) is a U.S. nonprofit focused on bipartisan policy advocacy and research on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. ARI’s mission is to help U.S. policymakers build a governance framework for rapidly advancing technologies that protects the…
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AMI LabsAMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence) is a frontier AI research lab focused on “world models” for the physical world—systems intended to understand, predict, and plan using real-world sensor data. On its website, AMI Labs describes a shift away from text-centric generative approaches toward…
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AmiiAmii (the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute) is an independent non-profit AI institute based in Edmonton, Alberta, focused on advancing “AI for Good and for All” through a combination of machine-intelligence research, AI talent development, and applied commercialization/adoption support. Amii…
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AndurilAnduril Industries is a U.S. defense technology company that builds “software-defined” autonomous defense systems—combining AI-enabled sensing, mission autonomy, and command-and-control software (notably its Lattice platform) with purpose-built aircraft and unmanned systems hardware. The company’s…
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ANSERANSER (Analytic Services, Inc.) is a U.S.-based nonprofit corporation that provides analysis, engineering, and public-service support to government missions—especially across U.S. national security priorities. The organization positions its work as independent and objective, with long-standing…
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AnthropicAnthropic is an AI safety and research company building frontier, reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, and deploying them through the Claude product line and an enterprise platform for building and running AI applications. Its current strategy emphasizes (1) model and agent capability…
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ANYboticsANYbotics is a Swiss robotics company developing autonomous, four-legged inspection robots and an associated software stack for industrial asset inspection, anomaly detection, and integration into industrial workflows. The company’s central product platform is ANYmal (industrial-grade mobile…
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AnyscaleAnyscale builds distributed AI computing and model-serving infrastructure centered on Ray. The company’s commercial offering is a fully managed Ray platform intended to reduce the engineering/DevOps work required to run Ray workloads reliably in production, including long-running batch workflows and…
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Anysphere (Cursor)Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor) builds Cursor, an “AI-native” software development environment aimed at improving developer throughput by integrating AI assistance directly into the IDE workflow and into higher-level “agent” interactions with a codebase. The core product experience is a…
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Apart ResearchApart Research is an AI safety research and community-building organization that runs high-volume, distributed research “pipelines” designed to move work from weekend hackathon prototypes to publication-grade research and (for some participants) longer research fellowships. The organization…
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Apollo ResearchApollo Research is an AI safety organization focused on the emergence, detection, and mitigation of “scheming” and related deceptive behavior in frontier AI systems, with additional emphasis on how these risks translate into governance and operational control problems. Its mission is to secure…
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Applied DigitalApplied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD) develops, owns, and operates purpose-built, high-performance data center “AI Factories” designed to convert large amounts of power into operational compute capacity for AI, machine learning, and other high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The company…
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Applied IntuitionApplied Intuition is a private “physical AI” infrastructure company that provides software for building, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent machines—especially vehicles—across industries including automotive, trucking, mining, agriculture, construction, and defense. The company…
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ApptronikApptronik is a private, Austin, Texas-based robotics company building “general-purpose” humanoid robots aimed at industrial work, particularly logistics and manufacturing, with a longer-term path to additional sectors. Its commercial focus centers on Apollo, a humanoid robot platform intended to…
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Arc InstituteArc Institute is an independent nonprofit research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California, focused on accelerating scientific progress and understanding the root causes of complex diseases. Its approach combines multi-year, no-strings-attached funding for investigators with…
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ARC Prize FoundationARC Prize Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit focused on accelerating progress toward open AGI by creating and maintaining human-calibrated AI benchmarks, and by running open competitions that incentivize researchers to publish reproducible solutions. Its core mission is to measure and reduce the…
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ArcadeArcade (Arcade AI, Inc.) is a private enterprise agent-infrastructure company building the “actions runtime” that sits between AI agents and the business systems they need to operate. Arcade’s core premise is that production agent deployments are blocked less by model capability than by secure,…
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Arcadia ScienceArcadia Science is an Emeryville, California-based organization that aims to make biological discovery more systematic by using evolution-driven and experiment-in-the-loop methods, while publishing across the research cycle with an emphasis on open access to materials and methods. Its platform…
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Arcee AIArcee AI is a U.S. open-weights model lab building the Trinity family of small language models and an enterprise-oriented tool stack for deploying, customizing, and operating them on infrastructure customers control (edge, on-prem, or cloud). The company positions “open-weight” as the core product…
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ArenaArena (formerly LMArena/Chatbot Arena) is a community-powered AI evaluation platform that collects human preferences (and other behavioral signals) from real user interactions and converts them into public leaderboards. Users on Arena submit prompts, compare anonymous model responses in “battle”…
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ARENA AI SafetyARENA AI Safety (ARENA) is an in-person technical upskilling programme and associated open curriculum focused on building practical ML engineering skills for technical AI safety work. ARENA runs short, cohort-based bootcamps (typically 4–5 weeks) and provides participants with structured exercises,…
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ARPA-HARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) is a U.S. federal biomedical R&D funding agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), associated with NIH but structured as an independent entity whose Director reports directly to the HHS Secretary. ARPA-H’s mission is to…
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ArtisanArtisan (artisan.co) is a private AI sales-development company that builds “AI employees” designed to execute outbound revenue work end to end. Its flagship product is Ava, an autonomous AI Business Development Representative (BDR) that Artisan positions as replacing repetitive outbound…
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Aspen InstituteThe Aspen Institute is a Washington, DC–based nonprofit “global convening and leadership organization” that brings together leaders from government, business, civil society, and academia to advance public understanding and catalyze action on complex societal challenges. Its stated purpose is to…
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Astera InstituteAstera Institute is a 501(c)(3) private foundation (founded in 2020) working to “steer science and technology towards an abundant future” by funding and operating science-infrastructure and other public goods that aim to accelerate scientific and technological progress. It frames its work around…
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Atlantic Council GeoTech CenterThe Atlantic Council GeoTech Center is a Washington, DC-based research and convening program within the Atlantic Council’s Technology Programs that focuses on the geopolitics and governance of emerging technologies. Its stated mission is to shape the future of technology and data to advance society,…
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AtomsAtoms (atoms.co) is a private industrial-AI and physical automation company organized to “digitize the physical world” across food, mining, and transport. The company frames its approach around building specialized “gainfully employed robots” and “atoms-based computers,” with manufacturing serving…
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Augment CodeAugment Code builds enterprise “coding assistant” software designed for large, complex codebases, where model context and operational reliability matter as much as code generation. The company’s core differentiator is repository-scale context: its Context Engine is described as a semantic…
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AuroraAurora (Aurora Innovation, Inc.; Nasdaq: AUR) is a self-driving technology company focused on autonomous trucking deployments, built around its Aurora Driver autonomy stack and packaged commercial “driver as a service” offerings. In its current framing, Aurora’s Aurora Driver is designed to operate…
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Australia AI Safety InstituteThe Australian AI Safety Institute (AISI) is a government capability being established within Australia’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) to help monitor, assess, and respond to emerging advanced-AI capabilities and the risks and harms they may pose over time. The institute’s…
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AVERIAVERI (the AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute) is a 501(c)(3) US-based nonprofit focused on making independent, third-party auditing of frontier AI systems practical and widely adopted. Its mission emphasizes audits that can verify AI developers’ safety and security claims and…
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Axelera AIAxelera AI (Axelera® AI) develops edge AI accelerators and a software toolchain for deploying computer-vision and generative-AI inference on power- and thermally-constrained platforms. The company’s core differentiation is its Digital In-Memory Computing (D-IMC) approach combined with RISC-V…
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Baichuan AIBaichuan AI (Baichuan Intelligent Technology) is a Beijing-based AI company focused on building general-purpose language models and deploying AI model services for enterprise and specialized vertical use cases. On its public model platform, Baichuan provides access to multiple generations of its LLM…
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Basecamp ResearchBasecamp Research is a private biological-design AI company building “foundation models” trained on large-scale, proprietary biodiversity and evolutionary sequence data. On its website, the company describes a data/compute stack anchored by BaseData (its biodiscovery dataset supply chain) and a…
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BasetenBaseten is a private AI infrastructure company focused on productionizing model inference (and, increasingly, the full train→deploy lifecycle) for teams building AI-native products. Its core offering is the Baseten Inference Platform and Inference Stack, which it positions as providing model…
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BeamBeam (legal name Smartshare, Inc.) is a privately held AI infrastructure company providing serverless GPU compute for inference and other GPU-backed workloads. Developers deploy Python/TypeScript applications to Beam using SDK abstractions (for example, defining GPU-backed endpoints) and Beam runs…
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Belfer Defense, Emerging Technology, and StrategyBelfer Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy (DETS) is a research and training program within the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. DETS focuses on defense policy issues and on the implications of emerging technologies for international security…
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BentoMLBentoML is an AI inference infrastructure company best known for BentoML, an open-source Python framework for building and serving machine learning and LLM inference workloads with production-oriented reliability. BentoML packages models (“BentOs”) and provides an API/server abstraction plus…
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Berkeley Existential Risk InitiativeBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) is an independent U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity founded in 2017 that provides operational infrastructure and fiscal sponsorship to existential-risk–related research and policy work, with a current emphasis on AI safety and existential risk reduction. BERI…
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BioptimusBioptimus is a private, France-incorporated AI-for-biology company building foundation models intended to connect biological data across multiple scales (e.g., molecular → cellular → tissue → organism/patient). Publicly, the company positions its work as a “world model for biology,” with H-Optimus…
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Bipartisan Policy CenterThe Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a Washington, DC–based nonprofit think tank and policy organization that works across the political spectrum to produce data-driven, practical policy solutions. BPC states that it operates at the intersection of policy development and political advocacy, and…
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Biren TechnologyBiren Technology (Shanghai Biren Technology Co., Ltd.) is a GPU-focused, fabless “chip + system + ecosystem” provider for AI computing. The company designs general-purpose GPGPU hardware and pairs it with its proprietary software platform BIRENSUPA™ to support AI training and inference from cloud to…
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Black Forest LabsBlack Forest Labs (BFL) is a frontier visual AI research lab building multimodal “world” foundation models aimed at creative and real-world applications. The company’s models and infrastructure center on the FLUX family: text-to-image generation and in-context image editing (FLUX.1 / FLUX.2 / FLUX.2…
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Bland AIBland AI is an enterprise voice-AI platform for building, deploying, and monitoring AI phone agents that handle real calls at scale. Instead of requiring customers to stitch together third-party voice components, Bland positions itself as providing an end-to-end, “in-house” voice stack (voice, LLM,…
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BlueDot ImpactBlueDot Impact is a London- and San Francisco–based non-profit “talent accelerator” focused on strengthening the safety and biosecurity workforce. The organization runs free online AI safety and biosecurity courses, provides grantmaking to support career transitions and early projects, and convenes…
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Blueprint BiosecurityBlueprint Biosecurity is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that focuses on pathogen-agnostic interventions intended to reduce the risk and severity of future biological threats and pandemics. The organization’s stated vision is to enable society to “detect, prevent, and stop disease outbreaks before…
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BoltzBoltz (Boltz PBC) is an AI-for-science company focused on open biomolecular foundation models and production-oriented tooling for drug discovery and protein design. Its models target core bottlenecks in early-stage discovery—predicting biomolecular structures/complexes and estimating binding…
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BraintrustBraintrust (braintrust.dev) is a developer platform for building and running AI products—focused on agent/LLM evaluation, production observability, and experiment workflows. The company positions its system as “active observability” for agents in production: teams trace agent behavior (including…
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Bright MachinesBright Machines is a privately held “physical AI” company building software-defined manufacturing for assembling and inspecting complex electronics and AI/data-center infrastructure hardware. The company’s core pitch is that factories should be designed, operated, and continuously improved as an…
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BroadcomBroadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a semiconductor and infrastructure-software company. In semiconductors, Broadcom supplies AI and data-center infrastructure silicon spanning “custom accelerator” (XPU) platforms and the connectivity stack around them (Ethernet switching, PCIe, optical/photonic…
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Brookings Center for Technology InnovationThe Brookings Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) is a Brookings Institution policy and research center focused on how technology innovation—including artificial intelligence—interacts with governance, economic development, and regulation in the United States and globally. CTI’s stated mission…
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BrowserbaseBrowserbase is a developer-oriented browser infrastructure platform for AI agents that need to browse and interact with websites reliably in production. The platform is designed to make the “browser as infrastructure” problem feel as API-like as possible: with one API key, agents can obtain scalable…
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California Council on Science and TechnologyThe California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) is a nonpartisan, independent science and technology policy advisory organization created by the California Legislature in 1988 to help strengthen California’s public policies with objective expert analysis. CCST describes its mission as…
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CambriconCambricon (official Chinese name: 中科寒武纪科技股份有限公司; operating brand: 寒武纪) is a publicly listed AI chip and intelligent-computing systems company based in Beijing. The company designs AI accelerator chips and provides a “cloud + edge + end” software/hardware stack intended to help customers build and…
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Cambridge Boston Alignment InitiativeCambridge Boston Alignment Initiative (CBAI) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2022 that focuses on AI-safety research and education, with an emphasis on building the local pipeline of technically capable students and early-career researchers in the Cambridge/Boston…
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Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety InstituteThe Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (CAISI) is a Government of Canada initiative that supports research and practical tools focused on AI safety risks from advanced AI systems—especially risks related to synthetic content (including impersonation and fraud) and risks from systems…
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CanvaCanva is a visual communication and creative production platform that provides an online editor for designing content (e.g., presentations, documents, social media and marketing assets) and publishing that content across channels. The company positions itself as “empowering the world to design,”…
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CaptionsCaptions (operating as Mirage after a rebrand) is an AI video creation and editing company focused on “UGC-style” talking-video generation and fast post-production. The Captions app and associated products let users turn raw footage (or, in some workflows, scripts/audio) into fully edited videos…
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Carbon DirectCarbon Direct is a science-first climate advisory and carbon-management services firm that helps organizations measure, reduce, and remove greenhouse-gas emissions using a mix of carbon-management software and specialist technical expertise. The company’s public materials emphasize (1)…
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Carnegie Technology and International Affairs ProgramThe Carnegie Technology and International Affairs Program (TIA) at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a policy research program focused on how emerging technologies affect international security, governance, and human well-being. The program’s stated purpose is to “develop insights to…
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Celestial AICelestial AI (photonic fabrics / optical interconnect for AI infrastructure) builds photonics-based connectivity intended to address data-movement bottlenecks in modern AI clusters—especially scale-up (chip-to-chip, within a package, and within racks) where electrical links face constraints on…
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Center for AI PolicyThe Center for AI Policy (CAIP) is a Washington, DC–based, nonpartisan research and policy organization focused on reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI through U.S. policy development and advocacy. CAIP’s public-facing work emphasizes translating AI safety research concepts into legislative…
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Center for AI SafetyThe Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a San Francisco–based AI safety research and field-building nonprofit incorporated as Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety, Inc. It works to reduce societal-scale risks from advanced AI through technical and conceptual safety research, research infrastructure…
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Center for Data InnovationThe Center for Data Innovation is a policy research center focused on pro-innovation public policy for data-driven technologies, especially artificial intelligence. It formulates and promotes “pragmatic public policies” designed to maximize benefits of data-driven innovation in both public and…
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Center for Global DevelopmentThe Center for Global Development (CGD) is an independent, nonpartisan nonprofit “think-and-do” tank focused on reducing global poverty and inequality through innovative economic research and strategic outreach. CGD’s work is designed to influence how policymakers and major institutions make…
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Center for Growth and OpportunityThe Center for Growth and Opportunity (CGO) is a university-based, 501(c)(3) research center at Utah State University. CGO’s stated mission is to produce policy-relevant research and related communications that help explain and address how institutions and policies affect economic growth and…
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Center for Human-Compatible AIThe Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) is a multi-institution academic research center based at UC Berkeley that works on the theory, practice, and policy of “beneficial” AI—AI that is designed to be provably aligned with human values rather than merely capable of optimizing…
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Center for Humane TechnologyCenter for Humane Technology (CHT) is a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to ensuring consequential technologies such as AI and social media “actually serve humanity.” CHT says it works by “bringing clarity” to the incentive structures that shape technology development, deployment, and…
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Center for Law & AI RiskCLAIR — the Center for Law & AI Risk— is a nonprofit research and community-building center focused on building a scholarly “Law & AI Safety” field. CLAIR’s stated mission is to help develop legal scholarship on how law can reduce catastrophic and existential risk from advanced AI, with the center…
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Center for Open ScienceThe Center for Open Science (COS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2013 to increase the openness, integrity, and trustworthiness of research. COS advances “Lifecycle Open Science,” aiming to make research plans, outputs (such as data, materials, and code), and outcomes publicly accessible and…
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Center for Security and Emerging TechnologyThe Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) is a policy research organization within Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. It provides decision-makers with data-driven analysis on the security implications of emerging technologies, with current focus areas including…
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Center for Strategic and International StudiesThe Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address major world challenges. CSIS is headquartered in Washington, DC, and its mission is to “define the future of national security.”
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Center on Long-Term RiskThe Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) is a UK-registered charity based in London that conducts interdisciplinary research and grantmaking focused on worst-case, long-term risks from advanced artificial intelligence—often framed as “s-risks” (risks of astronomical suffering) and, operationally, as…
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Centers for Disease Control and PreventionThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the U.S. federal government’s primary health protection agency. CDC’s mission is to protect health and safety by conducting research, implementing evidence-based programs, and monitoring health outcomes through data collection and…
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Centre for Effective AltruismThe Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is a field-building organization that “stewards” the effective altruism (EA) community—supporting how people learn about, discuss, and pursue high-impact action on pressing global problems. CEA’s mission is focused on building a community characterized by…
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Centre for Future GenerationsCentre for Future Generations (CFG) is a Brussels-based nonprofit think-and-do tank focused on helping policymakers anticipate and govern the societal impacts of rapid technological change, with an emphasis on technologies that can shape the global balance of power and that remain “largely…
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Centre for Long-Term ResilienceThe Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR) is an independent UK think tank incorporated as a non-profit company (Alpenglow Group Limited) that focuses on policy and governance for extreme risks—especially frontier AI risk, biosecurity, and cross-cutting risk management for government preparedness.…
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Centre for the Governance of AIThe Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) is a U.S.-based think tank (501(c)(3)) that aims to help decision-makers in government and industry navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI. It does this by (1) producing research and bespoke analysis (including work produced through direct…
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Centre for the Study of Existential RiskThe Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge focused on the study and mitigation of existential and global catastrophic risks. CSER’s work spans multiple risk domains (including catastrophic climate risks, nuclear risks,…
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Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IAThe Centre pour la Sécurité de l’IA (CeSIA) is a Paris-based, non-profit (association loi 1901) think-tank and policy research organization focused on preventing and mitigating major AI risks in France and Europe. It frames its mission around combining (1) policy analysis and public-policy…
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CerebrasCerebras (NASDAQ: CBRS) builds wafer-scale AI computing systems and the software used to train and serve large models faster than conventional GPU clusters. Its hardware platform is organized around a Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) and packaged into rack-scale or system-scale deployments (for example,…
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Chai DiscoveryChai Discovery is an AI-for-science company building multimodal foundation models and a computer-aided design (CAD) workflow for molecular and protein (especially antibody) engineering. The company positions its platform as a “design suite” that helps teams move from specifying target criteria…
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Character.AICharacter.AI (operated by Character Technologies, Inc.) is a consumer “AI entertainment” platform focused on letting users create and chat with AI-driven conversational characters. The core product experience centers on writing, refining, and interacting with Characters (including community-made…
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ChemifyChemify (chemify.io) is a private AI-for-science company building “Chemputation”—a closed-loop digital-to-physical workflow that aims to automate small-molecule and other makeable chemistry by combining machine-learning molecule design with a universal chemical programming language and automated…
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CivAICivAI (official legal entity name: Civic AI Security Program) is a California-based nonprofit that aims to improve public and policymaker understanding of advanced AI capabilities and risks through interactive, live software demonstrations. Rather than relying primarily on research papers or…
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ClarifaiClarifai is an enterprise-focused AI platform that helps teams build, evaluate, deploy, and operate AI workloads on “any compute” (cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and air-gapped). In practice, Clarifai bundles a control plane for managing AI lifecycle resources (data, models, workflows/apps) with “Compute…
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ClayClay (clay.com) is a go-to-market (GTM) data enrichment and workflow automation platform for sales, RevOps, and growth teams. The product centers on turning disparate account/contact information and intent signals into structured datasets (“data layer”) and then orchestrating downstream GTM actions…
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CNAS AI Security & StabilityCNAS AI Security & Stability is a CNAS (Center for a New American Security) project that aims to inform U.S. government decision-making on AI policy issues tied to national security and strategic stability, with an emphasis on risks and policy levers arising from the U.S.-China AI competition. The…
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Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness InnovationsCEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) is a global, non-profit vaccine-development coalition that finances and coordinates research and development of vaccines and other biologic countermeasures against epidemic and pandemic threats, with an explicit focus on equitable access. CEPI’s…
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CodeRabbitCodeRabbit (coderabbit.ai; CodeRabbit Inc.) is an AI-first software-quality automation platform focused on pre-merge code review. The product is designed to reduce reviewer effort and backlog by generating contextual pull request (PR) feedback—using repository-wide context and evidence—so teams can…
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Coefficient GivingCoefficient Giving is a philanthropic funder and advisor that helps donors deploy capital toward what it describes as cost-effective, high-impact opportunities across advanced AI and biosecurity, global health and wellbeing, farm animal welfare, and broader global challenges. The organization frames…
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CognitionCognition (cognition.com) builds autonomous software-engineering agents, led by “Devin,” which Cognition positions as an end-to-end system that can plan, write, test, and ship production code inside a customer’s existing codebase and tooling. The company’s product direction emphasizes that engineers…
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CohereCohere is a Toronto-founded enterprise AI company building large language models and supporting products for secure, private deployment. The company’s positioning centers on “enterprise AI for business” rather than consumer chat, with deployment options intended to fit enterprise security and…
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Committee for a Responsible Federal BudgetThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) is a Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan nonprofit focused on educating the public and engaging policymakers around United States fiscal policy and the federal budget. CRFB describes itself as an independent source of objective fiscal and budget…
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ComposioComposio (composio.dev) is an agent-integration and authentication platform that helps AI agents safely connect to third-party business systems (SaaS apps, internal tools, and MCP-compatible tool servers) and then execute “tool calls” in production workflows. Its core offering is an SDK/API and…
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Concordia AIConcordia AI is a social enterprise focused on global AI safety and governance, with offices in Beijing and Singapore. Its mission is to “steer AI development to harness transformative benefits while mitigating potential risks,” with a particular emphasis on making China’s AI safety and governance…
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ConstellationConstellation Institute is an independent, nonprofit research center in Berkeley, California focused on reducing catastrophic risks from transformative AI. Its stated approach is field-building: it develops talent, incubates new organizations, helps existing organizations scale, and convenes…
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ControlAIControlAI is a non-profit advocacy organization focused on preventing catastrophic “loss of control” risks from advanced (especially superintelligent) AI systems. Its public mission centers on averting extinction risk by pushing governments toward binding prohibitions on developing artificial…
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Convergence AnalysisConvergence Analysis is a U.S.-based nonprofit research and policy organization focused on AI existential-risk strategy, transformative-AI scenario planning, and governance recommendations. Its mission is to “design a safe and flourishing future for humanity in a world with transformative AI,” with…
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Convergent ResearchConvergent Research is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2021 that incubates “Focused Research Organizations” (FROs)—time-bound, engineering-heavy research teams intended to build high-impact public scientific infrastructure that academia, startups, and government labs may not be…
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Cooperative AI FoundationThe Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF) is a UK-registered charitable entity that funds and supports research aimed at improving the “cooperative intelligence” of advanced AI systems for the benefit of all. CAIF’s stated focus is on cooperative capabilities and “differential progress” — supporting work…
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CoreWeaveCoreWeave, Inc. is a GPU-focused “AI-native” cloud infrastructure provider delivering compute, storage, and networking for AI training and inference workloads. The company positions CoreWeave Cloud as purpose-built to accelerate GenAI deployment at scale, combining specialized GPU clusters,…
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Cornell Digital Life InitiativeCornell Digital Life Initiative (DLI) is an academic research and convening program at Cornell Tech (Roosevelt Island, New York City) focused on societal perspectives on digital technology—particularly ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. DLI frames digital systems as “socio-technical…
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CradleCradle is a private AI-for-science company building enterprise software for generative protein engineering. Its platform is designed for research teams in biopharma and industrial biology to generate and optimize protein candidates faster by iteratively learning from their own wet-lab experimental…
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CrestaCresta is a private AI software company building “human-centric” customer experience (CX) intelligence and agent orchestration for enterprise contact centers. Its platform is designed to unify (1) autonomous AI agents that resolve customer conversations, (2) real-time AI guidance for human agents…
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CrewAICrewAI is a multi-agent orchestration and enterprise automation platform that combines an open-source “build and run” framework with an enterprise control plane for governing, testing, tracing, and deploying agentic workflows. The company positions its platform as an agent build-and-runtime layer…
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CrusoeCrusoe is an energy-first AI infrastructure company that builds and operates AI data center “factory” capacity and sells access to that capacity through its cloud platform. The company positions itself as vertically integrated across energy sourcing, AI-optimized data center design and construction,…
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CSIS Wadhwani AI CenterThe CSIS Wadhwani AI Center is a research and policy program within the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) focused on how artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies intersect with national security, geopolitics, economic competitiveness, and global governance.
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CuspAICuspAI is an AI-for-science company building an “AI Materials Foundry” to accelerate discovery and development of new physical materials for applications including semiconductors, energy storage, and climate and carbon-capture use cases. The company positions its core system as a search engine for…
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d-Matrixd-Matrix is a private semiconductor and systems company building digital in-memory compute (DIMC) technology for generative AI inference in data centers. The company’s stated product direction is an end-to-end inference platform that combines Corsair inference accelerators, JetStream networking/I-O…
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DARPADARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is an independent research and development agency within the U.S. Department of Defense. Its mission is to create and prevent technological surprise for U.S. national security, pursuing transformational breakthroughs through high-risk,…
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DatabricksDatabricks is an enterprise data and AI platform that unifies data, analytics, and AI workloads on a governed “lakehouse” foundation. On the Databricks Data + AI Platform, teams build and run data pipelines and analytics, then extend into machine learning and generative AI applications—using…
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DataCrunchDataCrunch—rebranded as Verda—builds a European, GPU-focused “full-stack AI cloud” for AI teams that need training and inference capacity with deployment speed, European data-handling posture, and vertically integrated infrastructure. Its platform spans GPU instances and self-service clusters for…
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DecagonDecagon (decagon.ai) is a privately held conversational AI platform for enterprise customer experience (CX) teams, focused on building, deploying, and operating “AI concierge” customer-support agents across voice, chat, email, and other channels. The company’s core approach centers on Agent…
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DecartDecart (decart.ai) is an AI lab and platform company focused on “live” generative systems—models and the infrastructure required to run them with low and predictable latency. Decart’s positioning centers on a vertically integrated stack it calls the Decart Optimization Stack (DOS), which it…
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DeepInfraDeepInfra is a private AI inference cloud that provides an OpenAI-compatible API for running a large catalog of open-weight and proprietary AI models (LLMs, vision, embeddings, OCR, speech, and image/video generation) at “pay per token” economics. The company positions its platform around…
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DeepSeekDeepSeek is a China-based AI lab focused on developing large language models (including reasoning-focused and agent-oriented models) and distributing them through an online chat app and an API “Open Platform.” The company positions its roadmap as a sequence of increasingly capable model families…
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DescriptDescript is an AI-native audio and video editing platform built around text-based workflows: users record or import media, Descript transcribes it, and then edit the recording by editing the transcript (plus additional “refine” and AI-assisted steps). The product is positioned for both individual…
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DexterityDexterity (Dexterity, Inc.) builds “Physical AI” systems for industrial logistics and warehousing—aimed at autonomous robot operation in unstructured, real-world environments. The company’s core approach is to provide a reusable enterprise Physical AI platform that can connect perception, planning,…
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Diligent RoboticsDiligent Robotics (known for its Moxi robot) builds socially intelligent mobile-manipulation robots designed to work alongside healthcare staff in human-filled environments such as hospital corridors, medication areas, and nursing units. The company’s positioning is that robots should be “teammates”…
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Duality AIDuality AI builds the Falcon digital-twin simulation platform for teams developing robotics, autonomy, and other “physical AI” systems. Falcon is designed to let users create high-fidelity, simulation-ready digital twins and then run controlled, deterministic simulation to generate synthetic…
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DustDust (dust.tt) is an enterprise “multiplayer” AI agent platform that connects AI models to a company’s internal knowledge and tools, and lets human teams and AI agents collaborate in shared workflows with permissions, auditability, and usage/cost visibility. The company positions Dust as an…
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E2BE2B (legal entity: FoundryLabs, Inc., doing business as E2B) builds a cloud “sandbox runtime” for AI agents and AI-powered apps—giving each workload an isolated execution environment so agents can safely run generated code, perform data analysis, and (via computer-use) interact with a desktop-like…
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EA Funds Long-Term Future FundThe EA Funds Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF) was an expert-managed regranting fund within the Effective Altruism Funds (“EA Funds”) platform. Its mission was to make grants that address global catastrophic risks—especially potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and pandemics—and to…
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Effective Institutions ProjectThe Effective Institutions Project (EIP) is a U.S.-based policy and strategy nonprofit that supports donors in making higher-quality decisions about where to invest in efforts to improve the performance, incentives, and accountability of major institutions relevant to global catastrophic and…
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EleutherAIEleutherAI is an open research organization that develops and releases open-weight large language models, datasets, and model evaluation tooling, with an emphasis on mechanistic interpretability and model evaluation. The group’s best-known open artifacts include the GPT-Neo model family, GPT-J,…
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ElevenLabsElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io) is an AI audio and voice platform that provides production-ready speech and conversational capabilities for developers, enterprises, and creative teams. The company’s product line is organized around three major platforms: ElevenAgents for deploying voice and chat agents…
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EliseAIEliseAI (formerly MeetElise) develops agentic AI software for housing and healthcare operations, with the stated goal of automating complex, multi-step workflows across the customer/patient lifecycle while integrating into customers’ existing systems. In housing, EliseAI positions its platform as a…
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EnCharge AIEnCharge AI is a private semiconductor company developing analog in-memory computing (AIMC) hardware and a software stack for efficient AI inference, targeting deployments across edge-to-cloud rather than only cloud data centers. The company positions its approach around performing computation…
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EncodeEncode is a U.S. youth-led AI policy advocacy organization that works to shape laws and governance mechanisms for advanced AI systems, using coalition-building and public engagement to influence lawmakers at the state and federal levels. Encode describes its mission as advocating for AI governance…
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Epoch AIEpoch AI is a data-first research nonprofit that investigates the future trajectory and societal implications of artificial intelligence. Its stated mission is to help people understand what is happening in AI from a neutral perspective grounded in evidence, by studying AI’s key drivers and…
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ERAERA (Existential Risk Alliance) is a Cambridge-based talent and research organization focused on reducing existential and catastrophic risks from frontier technologies—especially advanced AI—by developing researchers and building durable research and institutional capacity. ERA describes its mission…
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EtchedEtched is a private AI hardware company building “frontier inference clusters” for serving frontier AI models, with a specialization in transformer-family inference (prefill and decode). Etched’s approach is to co-design silicon, racks, software, and manufacturing methods so that its systems deliver…
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EudiaEudia (website: eudia.com) is an AI-native legal intelligence platform focused on complex work inside in-house corporate legal departments and, increasingly, adjacent enterprise workflows (for example contracting, compliance, and other decision workflows). Eudia positions its product as…
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European AI OfficeThe European AI Office is a unit within the European Commission (DG CONNECT) established to support a single, coherent EU approach to AI governance and to help implement and enforce the EU AI Act—especially for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. It acts as the Commission’s central “AI expertise”…
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European CommissionThe European Commission is the European Union’s main executive body. It helps set the EU’s overall strategy, proposes new EU laws and policies, monitors and ensures their implementation across EU member states, and manages the EU budget and EU funding programmes. It is also involved in representing…
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European Network for AI SafetyThe European Network for AI Safety (ENAIS) is a Europe-focused community and field-building organization intended to reduce fragmentation in AI-safety work across countries by connecting researchers, policymakers, and community organizers around existential risks from AI. ENAIS positions itself as…
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EvolutionaryScaleEvolutionaryScale develops biological foundation models and generative protein-design systems built on the Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM) approach. Its flagship model, ESM3, is described as a multimodal generative language-model family that can “reason over” protein sequence, structure, and…
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Executive Office of the PresidentThe Executive Office of the President (EOP) is the U.S. presidential staff and institutional support structure created in 1939 to provide the President with the support needed to govern effectively. The White House describes the EOP’s role as covering responsibilities ranging from communicating the…
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Existential Risk ObservatoryExistential Risk Observatory (ERO) is a small Amsterdam-based nonprofit foundation that aims to reduce existential risk—especially from advanced AI—by influencing how the issue is communicated to the public and incorporated into policymaking. Its central strategy is “awareness-first”: instead of…
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FactoryFactory (factory.ai) is an enterprise “agent-native” software development platform that orchestrates autonomous AI systems (“Droids”) to execute work across the software development lifecycle—planning and implementation, pull request review, test generation, documentation maintenance, security…
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falfal (fal.ai) is a generative-media inference and model API platform aimed at developers and enterprises that need low-latency, production-grade serving for image, audio, video, and related generative workloads. Founded in 2021, fal describes its core product as a “fal Serverless” infrastructure for…
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FAR.AIFAR.AI (Frontier Alignment Research) is a U.S.-incorporated (501(c)(3)) independent nonprofit research organization focused on technical AI safety research, plus research incubation and field-building aimed at closing the gap between new safety ideas and real-world deployment. Its stated goal is to…
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FDD Center on Cyber and Technology InnovationFDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) is an internal policy research center within the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), focused on how cybersecurity and emerging technologies (including AI) intersect with U.S. national security, economic security, and democratic…
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Federation of American ScientistsFederation of American Scientists (FAS) is an independent, nonpartisan science and technology policy organization founded in November 1945 by scientists and engineers emerging from Manhattan Project work. Across its history, FAS has focused on applying technical expertise to public…
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Field AIFieldAI is a physical-AI company building “one brain” autonomy software intended to help third-party robots (and multiple robot embodiments) operate reliably in complex, unstructured, safety-critical environments. The company describes its approach as centered on Field Foundation Models (FFMs),…
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Figure AIFigure AI is building general-purpose humanoid robots intended to operate in human environments, starting with “workforce” deployments and expanding toward home use. Its core approach couples embodied hardware (Figure 01/02/03) with an AI “vision-language-action” stack called Helix, designed to…
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Fireworks AIFireworks AI is a private AI inference and model-training platform focused on helping organizations “own” specialized intelligence built on open-source models. The company provides a production AI cloud for developers and enterprises to run fast inference, perform fine-tuning /…
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FluidstackFluidstack is a private AI infrastructure company building and operating large GPU compute capacity and the software layer used to run frontier-model training and inference on it. The company describes its platform as an AI cloud designed for “security, reliability, and scale” requirements typical…
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Forecasting Research InstituteForecasting Research Institute (FRI) is a Delaware-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that develops and applies forecasting methods to support decision-making on high-stakes issues. It builds on the forecasting work of Chief Scientist Philip Tetlock by running large-scale expert forecasting studies on…
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Foresight InstituteForesight Institute is a U.S. nonprofit research organization (founded in 1986) that tries to accelerate “beneficial frontier science and technology” through a mix of grants, prizes, fellowships, and convenings. Its current work emphasizes applying AI to science and safety, as well as adjacent…
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Forethought ResearchForethought Research (operating as “Forethought”) is a UK-based, non-profit research organization focused on the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems. Its stated mission is to research how to navigate this transition, with attention to both risks (including scenarios like rapid…
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Foundation for American InnovationThe Foundation for American Innovation (FAI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit technology and policy organization working to align innovation with U.S. governance and national security. FAI describes its mission as helping policymakers become more effective stewards of innovation and equipping technologists…
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Founders PledgeFounders Pledge is a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs and other high-wealth individuals give more effectively by combining (1) evidence-based philanthropic research, (2) advising and operational support, and (3) giving infrastructure (including an in-house Donor Advised Fund) plus specialized…
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Fourier IntelligenceFourier Intelligence (operating under the broader Fourier / Fourier Rehab brand) is a robotics company focused on physical AI—particularly rehabilitation and embodied humanoid robots. The company positions its healthcare work around exoskeleton and rehabilitation robotics, targeting improvements to…
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FreedFreed (getfreed.ai) is an AI clinician assistant focused on ambient clinical documentation and broader small-practice workflow automation. The company’s core product is an AI medical scribe that listens to clinician–patient encounters and generates EHR-ready clinical notes, which Freed positions as…
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Frontier Model ForumThe Frontier Model Forum (FMF) is an industry-supported non-profit (501(c)(6)) dedicated to advancing “frontier” AI safety and security. Its core mandates are to (1) identify best practices and support standards development for frontier AI safety and security, (2) advance the science of frontier AI…
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Fulbright ProgramThe Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange initiative, administered by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) under policy guidelines set by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB). The program was created…
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FuriosaAIFuriosaAI is an AI-inference hardware and software company building energy-efficient accelerators designed to reduce the power and deployment constraints of GPU-centric data centers. The company’s Tensor Contraction Processor (TCP) architecture is intended to make transformer-style tensor…
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Future of Life InstituteThe Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a U.S.-based (501(c)(3)) nonprofit that aims to “steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.” It does this through a combination of (1) policy research and advocacy on emerging technology risks, (2)…
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FutureHouseFutureHouse is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit AI-for-science organization building “AI Scientist” agents intended to automate key parts of scientific work, with a focus on biology and other complex sciences. The organization’s flagship initiative is its AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship,…
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GammaGamma (gamma.app) is an AI-native visual storytelling platform focused on creating and sharing “gammas” (web-native artifacts) such as presentations, documents, websites, and social posts. Instead of treating slides as the primary authoring format, Gamma positions idea-writing and content input as…
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GCHQGCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) is the UK’s intelligence and security agency responsible for signals intelligence and cyber and security work. Its stated mission is to help keep the UK safe, resilient and prosperous, using technical expertise, analysis, and disruption against threats…
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Gecko RoboticsGecko Robotics is a privately held robotics and “AI + robotics” (AIR) company that turns inspection data from robots and sensors into actionable infrastructure intelligence. Its core operating concept is Cantilever®, an operating platform that unites high-fidelity, robot-collected “first-order” data…
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General IntuitionGeneral Intuition is a private New York–based frontier AI lab focused on “world models” and “action models” for embodied decision-making—models that can perceive, predict, and act in virtual and physical environments. The company’s core premise is that gameplay video paired with action labels (what…
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Generalist AIGeneralist AI is a robotics and embodied-AI company building “embodied foundation models” for dexterous, general-purpose manipulation. The company’s stated mission is to build general intelligence for the physical world, and its model line is framed around increasing task “mastery”…
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Generate:BiomedicinesGenerate:Biomedicines (Nasdaq: GENB) is a clinical-stage therapeutics company focused on “generative biology”: a protein-design and development engine intended to let the company create protein-based drug candidates with defined biological intent. The company’s operating thesis is that programmable…
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Genesis AIGenesis AI (Genesis AI SAS) is a full-stack robotics company building a robotics foundation-model “brain” (GENE-26.5) and an integrated general-purpose robot platform (Eno). The company’s stated goal is to enable robots to learn and perform complex, long-horizon physical manipulation tasks by…
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Genesis TherapeuticsGenesis Molecular AI (formerly Genesis Therapeutics) develops molecular AI for small-molecule drug discovery. The company’s core platform, GEMS (Genesis Exploration of Molecular Space), is positioned as an “agentic end-to-end” workflow that integrates foundation models, generative and predictive…
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GleanGlean is an enterprise “Work AI” platform that combines cross-application enterprise search with grounded AI assistant experiences and enterprise agent capabilities. The company positions its core differentiation as an enterprise context layer: Glean connects to and understands company knowledge,…
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Global Catastrophic Risk InstituteThe Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on researching and developing solutions for events that could significantly harm or even destroy human civilization at the global scale. GCRI describes its mission as developing “the best ways to confront…
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GMI CloudGMI Cloud (gmicloud.ai) is a private “neocloud” company providing AI-native GPU infrastructure and inference-first orchestration for production workloads. The company positions its platform as a full-stack stack for model deployment: it combines GPU infrastructure inside GMI-operated data centers…
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Good VenturesGood Ventures is a U.S.-based philanthropic foundation whose mission is to help humanity thrive by accelerating progress, reducing suffering, and mitigating major risks to a flourishing world. The foundation says it chooses causes using three criteria—importance, neglectedness, and tractability—and…
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GoodfireGoodfire is a San Francisco–headquartered AI interpretability research lab (a public benefit corporation) that builds tools meant to help teams understand, monitor, and intentionally steer AI model behavior by working with model internals rather than treating models as black boxes. The company’s…
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Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind is Alphabet’s AI research and product lab that combines DeepMind’s original research heritage (e.g., reinforcement learning, game-playing systems, and AlphaFold) with Google Brain and related Google Research teams into a unified organization. DeepMind describes its approach as…
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GranolaGranola (granola.ai) is a private AI productivity company building a “botless” AI notepad that captures meeting audio/transcribes while users stay in the conversation, then enhances and structures the notes so they can be searched, shared, and pushed into other work tools. Granola positions itself…
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grantmaking.aigrantmaking.ai is an open platform to discover, evaluate, and fund high-impact AI safety work. It aims to build “grantmaking infrastructure” the organization says the AI safety ecosystem is missing: a public directory and live funding-status layer for small, time-sensitive opportunities, plus a…
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GraphcoreGraphcore is a semiconductor and AI-systems company best known for its Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) hardware and its Poplar software stack. The company’s IPUs are designed to accelerate “machine intelligence” workloads (training and inference) using a dataflow/graph execution approach and a…
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GroqGroq is an AI infrastructure company focused on low-latency, energy-efficient inference. Its central hardware concept is the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a purpose-built processor architecture designed for AI inference workloads such as large language model (LLM) token generation. Groq makes…
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H CompanyH Company (hcompany.ai) is a Paris-headquartered AI research and product company focused on “computer-use” / action-oriented agents for enterprises. Its stated approach is to close the “cognitive gap” in organizations by moving beyond AI copilots toward agentic systems that can perceive real user…
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HailoHailo (Hailo Technologies Ltd.) is an edge-AI chip company that designs AI processors intended to run machine-learning inference outside of data centers, targeting “real-time” workloads under constraints like power, cost, and device size. The company’s product portfolio includes AI accelerators…
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Harvard Kempner InstituteThe Harvard Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence is a Harvard University academic research institute focused on understanding intelligence across natural (biological) and artificial (machine) systems, with the stated goal of advancing intelligence research and…
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Harvard Law SchoolHarvard Law School (HLS) is Harvard University’s professional law school and the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. It provides legal education and trains students for careers across private practice, public service, and legal scholarship, while also operating as a major…
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HarveyHarvey (harvey.ai) is a legal-focused AI platform for professional services that combines purpose-built “agentic” workflows with domain knowledge and document-focused workspaces. The company positions Harvey as a workflow platform for legal research, drafting, and multi-step legal tasks (including…
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HebbiaHebbia is a private AI software company focused on high-rigor “institutional intelligence” for knowledge workers—especially in finance, legal, and professional services. Rather than positioning as a general chat tool, Hebbia’s product suite is designed to let teams encode their workflows and then…
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HeliconeHelicone is (was) an open-source LLM observability platform and AI gateway designed to help AI developers and teams debug, evaluate, and operate language-model applications in production. Its core product approach is “one integration” for model usage and tracing: teams can send LLM traffic through…
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Henry Luce FoundationThe Henry Luce Foundation (HLF) is a private nonprofit grantmaking organization founded in 1936 by Henry R. Luce. Its mission is to deepen knowledge and understanding in pursuit of a more democratic and just world, and it pursues that mission through grantmaking and leadership-development…
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HeyGenHeyGen is an AI video creation and localization platform that enables businesses to generate and scale avatar-led video content without traditional camera production. Its core workflow centers on (1) creating or selecting AI avatars, (2) scripting and narrating video in multiple languages, (3)…
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Hippocratic AIHippocratic AI (hippocraticai.com) builds safety-focused generative AI agents and a voice “constellation” model intended for patient-facing healthcare workflows. The company’s Polaris platform is positioned as evidence-based for clinical voice interactions, with safety supervision and escalation…
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Hoover Technology Policy AcceleratorThe Hoover Institution’s Technology Policy Accelerator (TPA) is a Stanford-based research and convening program that produces analysis to help U.S. government and business leaders understand how emerging technologies reshape geopolitics, society, and the economy, with an explicit focus on national…
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Horizon Institute for Public ServiceHorizon Institute for Public Service is a Washington, DC-based, non-partisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps the US government address a shortage of emerging-technology technical talent in public service and policy roles. Its core approach is to bridge technology specialists into policy institutions…
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Hugging FaceHugging Face is an open model and tooling platform for machine learning teams, built around the Hugging Face Hub: a centralized repository for sharing and discovering models, datasets, and “Spaces” (app-style demos). It also provides developer libraries (such as Transformers and Datasets) and hosted…
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Humane IntelligenceHumane Intelligence is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on making AI systems more accountable, responsible, and fair through participatory and adversarial evaluation. Its core approach combines (1) human-centered AI red teaming (adversarial and non-adversarial testing designed to surface…
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HyperstackHyperstack is an on-demand GPU cloud platform (GPU-as-a-Service) powered by NexGen Cloud Limited, providing self-serve access to NVIDIA-architecture compute for AI, ML, HPC, and rendering workloads. Hyperstack is presented as API-first infrastructure: customers can provision and manage GPU virtual…
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Iambic TherapeuticsIambic Therapeutics develops AI-native small-molecule medicines by combining (1) physics-informed neural models for molecular design and biomolecular structure prediction with (2) a high-throughput experimental execution platform. The company’s AI technologies are positioned as core “engines” that…
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InceptionInception is an AI research and product company building diffusion-based language models intended for production deployments where latency and cost matter. The company’s core thesis is that, unlike autoregressive LLMs that generate text token-by-token in a fundamentally sequential way,…
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Information Technology and Innovation FoundationThe Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is a Washington, DC–based, independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and educational institute focused on science, technology, productivity, competitiveness, and innovation policy. ITIF’s mission is to formulate, evaluate, and promote policy…
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Insilico MedicineInsilico Medicine (HKEX:3696) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that combines generative AI with drug discovery and development workflows. The company’s stated mission is to accelerate drug discovery and development by leveraging its proprietary Pharma.AI platform across biology, chemistry,…
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Institute for AI Policy and StrategyThe Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) is a nonpartisan U.S. 501(c)(3) think tank focused on technically grounded AI policy research at the intersection of frontier AI, national security, and geopolitics. IAPS describes its mission as equipping policymakers and industry leaders to protect…
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Institute for Law & AIThe Institute for Law & AI (LawAI) is an independent think tank focused on legal and policy analysis for advanced artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on how laws, legal institutions, and policymakers can respond as AI systems become more capable and widely deployed. LawAI describes its work as…
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Institute for ProgressThe Institute for Progress (IFP) is a non-partisan Washington, D.C.-based think tank focused on innovation policy, working to “accelerate and shape the direction of scientific, technological, and industrial progress” in the United States. IFP describes its mission as policy entrepreneurship:…
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Institute for Responsible SuperintelligenceThe Institute for Responsible Superintelligence (RESI) is a U.S.-based nonprofit research institute focused on “safe-by-design” foundations for advanced AI and eventual superintelligence. RESI’s central claim is that, as systems become too capable to rely on exhaustive post-deployment testing,…
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Institute for Security and TechnologyThe Institute for Security and Technology (IST) is a U.S.-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit think tank that describes its mission as uniting technology and policy leaders to build “actionable solutions” to emerging security challenges. The organization’s work spans cybersecurity (including ransomware and…
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IntelIntel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is a U.S.-headquartered semiconductor company focused on designing and manufacturing computing technologies, including central processing units (CPUs), artificial-intelligence (AI) accelerators, and networking. Its current strategy emphasizes end-to-end “AI…
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International Network for Advanced AI Measurement, Evaluation and ScienceInternational Network for Advanced AI Measurement, Evaluation and Science (NAAIMES) is an international coordination consortium focused on strengthening the science and shared best practices that underpin the measurement and evaluation of advanced AI capabilities. In its current framing, the Network…
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International Policy RolesInternational Policy Roles is a curated collection on 80,000 Hours’ job board that surfaces high-priority, publicly advertised career opportunities in international organisations and coalitions—particularly for cause areas that 80,000 Hours highlights (e.g., AI safety & policy, biosecurity &…
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IntrinsicIntrinsic develops an enterprise platform for building and operating AI-enabled industrial robotics. Its core product, Intrinsic Flowstate, is an intuitive developer environment for designing robotic workcells (including digital-twin-style design/calibration), developing processes with…
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IRENIREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) is a vertically integrated AI cloud services platform focused on delivering high-performance compute for AI training and inference. The company owns and operates the “AI Cloud Services stack” across (1) data center infrastructure (land, grid-connected power, substations,…
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Isomorphic LabsIsomorphic Labs is an AI-first drug design and development company building an end-to-end “drug design engine” intended to accelerate and improve how medicines are discovered, designed, and developed. The company’s core positioning is that modern AI models—used “in silico” for faster iteration and…
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Japan AI Safety InstituteThe Japan AI Safety Institute (AISI) is a Japanese government-supported organization focused on improving the safety evaluation of AI systems. Its mission centers on developing and promoting assessment methods, standards, and guidance that enable AI developers, providers, and users to evaluate and…
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthThe Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) is the graduate public health school of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1916 as the world’s first independent degree-granting school of public health, it has a long-running institutional mission to advance public…
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KodiakKodiak AI (Nasdaq: KDK) is a physical-AI autonomous trucking company building the Kodiak Driver, a vehicle-agnostic self-driving system intended for long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense/ground vehicle applications. The company commercializes its autonomy through (1) a…
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Korea AI Safety InstituteThe Korea Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (Korea AISI; also referred to as the Korea AI Safety Institute) is a South Korean government-linked AI safety research organization housed within the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). It was established to serve as a…
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KreaKrea (krea.ai) is a generative-AI “creative suite” that brings together image, video, 3D, enhancement/upscaling, and real-time generation in one browser-based workflow. The core product idea is to remove the friction of juggling many separate model services by providing a unified interface and…
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KyutaiKyutai is a Paris-based open-science AI lab focused on multimodal, real-time speech and audio intelligence, and on releasing models, code, and research for public use. Its flagship product direction is “voice AI for LLMs”: Kyutai built low-latency streaming speech-to-text (STT) and streaming…
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LambdaLambda (lambda.ai) is a private AI infrastructure company building dedicated “AI factories” for training and inference. The company positions its offering as secure, mission-critical GPU compute delivered in single-tenant configurations, including complete rack-scale/single-tenant “Superclusters,”…
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LangChainLangChain is an open agent development and “agent engineering” company that combines (1) open-source agent frameworks for building AI agents and (2) a commercial platform for observability, evaluation, and deployment to help teams ship reliable agent applications. The company’s public positioning…
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LangfuseLangfuse is an open-source “AI engineering platform” focused on tracing, prompt management, evaluations, datasets/experiments, and related observability for LLM and agent applications. It is designed to let teams run an iteration loop that connects production telemetry (hierarchical traces and other…
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LASR LabsLASR Labs (London AI Safety Research Labs) is a technical AI-safety research programme that trains and funds small teams of engineers and scientists to produce publishable research on concrete, action-relevant AI threat models. The programme runs as a 13-week, full-time, in-person fellowship (with a…
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Latent LabsLatent Labs is a generative biology company building AI foundation models and agentic workflows aimed at making biology “programmable” for drug discovery and molecular engineering. The company’s product is the Latent Labs Platform, which provides no-code and API-enabled access to its protein-design…
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LawZeroLawZero is a Montréal-based nonprofit research organization focused on “safe-by-design” advanced AI. Its core technical idea is “Scientist AI”: a system intended to support honest, evidence-based prediction and reasoning while reducing the likelihood of goal-directed behavior and related safety…
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LegoraLegora (formerly Leya) is an AI software company building a “collaborative”/“agentic” workspace for legal teams. Its core product is the Legora aOS, positioned as an agentic operating system for legal work that connects information, communication, and execution across legal tasks—research, review,…
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LettaLetta is a stateful AI agent platform that aims to make “memory management” the core primitive for building long-running, model-agnostic agents. Instead of treating LLM usage as stateless request/response, Letta positions an agent harness/runtime as responsible for maintaining persistent identity,…
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Leverhulme Centre for the Future of IntelligenceThe Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge (within the Institute for Technology and Humanity) studying the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on rigorous cross-disciplinary…
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Lightcone InfrastructureLightcone Infrastructure is a Berkeley-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds “infrastructure” for the rationality and AI-risk reduction ecosystem—especially through operating the LessWrong community and a physical campus venue, Lighthaven, and through building grantmaking/coordination software and…
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LightmatterLightmatter (lightmatter.co) is a photonic “infrastructure” company targeting AI data centers and HPC clusters. It builds photonic interconnect platforms (Passage™) and photonic light engines (Guide®) and is also positioning photonic compute (Envise). Its stated goal is to remove electrical I/O and…
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Lila SciencesLila Sciences (lila.ai) is a privately held AI-for-science company building what it calls an “operating system for science” that autonomously executes the scientific method. Lila’s core product concept is its AI Science Factory (AISF™): tightly integrated loops that combine a scientific reasoning…
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LindyLindy (Crivello Corp, d/b/a Lindy) builds a “teammate” / workflow-agent platform aimed at business users and teams who want AI to complete real tasks across the work stack (rather than stopping at chat or draft outputs). Lindy is positioned as an always-available agent that integrates into team…
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Liquid AILiquid AI is an efficiency-first foundation model company building “Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs)” and an accompanying developer platform for deploying them on-device and on-prem. The company characterizes its models as general-purpose, lightweight, and optimized for fast, private, and…
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LlamaIndexLlamaIndex is a developer and enterprise platform for building AI agents over unstructured enterprise content—particularly documents—by turning raw files into “agent-ready” structured data and providing orchestration primitives for retrieval, synthesis, and workflow execution. Its product direction…
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LongviewLongview Philanthropy (operating under the “Longview Philanthropy” name across two legal entities in the US and UK) is a philanthropic advisory and grantmaking organization focused on reducing global catastrophic risks—especially risks from advanced artificial intelligence. Longview describes its…
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LovableLovable (lovable.dev) is an AI software development platform that lets users create, run, and manage full-stack web applications by describing what they want in natural language. Lovable positions itself as an “end-to-end” app builder: it handles hosting, authentication, payments, security scanning,…
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Luma AILuma AI (lumalabs.ai) builds multimodal “world model” systems that target next-step creative and physical-world intelligence, combining generative video with 3D capture/reconstruction and agentic workflows. The company’s consumer-facing product suite is organized around Dream Machine (video…
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LuminanceLuminance is an enterprise contract intelligence and legal workflow automation platform built around what the company calls “Legal-Grade™ AI.” It targets in-house legal teams and other contract-heavy business functions (e.g., compliance, procurement, finance, and executive stakeholders) with AI…
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MagicMagic (Magic AI, Inc.) is a private San Francisco-based AI research and engineering company building long-context foundation models and agentic systems aimed at automating software engineering and AI research. The company says it pursues “frontier code models” by combining frontier-scale…
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ManifundManifund (legally “Manifold for Charity”, EIN 88-3668801) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity that operates a software-mediated, transparency-first grantmaking and regranting platform for charitable projects, with an emphasis on AI safety and effective-altruism-aligned cause areas. Its core product…
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MarvellMarvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a fabless semiconductor supplier focused on data infrastructure “from the data center core to network edge,” building System-on-a-Chip architectures and integrating analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing functionality. Marvell’s current AI…
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MastraMastra is a TypeScript/JavaScript-first agent framework and emerging agent infrastructure platform for building, evaluating, and operating AI agents in production. The core framework is open-source (Apache 2.0) and is positioned as a “modern TypeScript framework for AI-powered applications and…
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MATSMATS (Machine Alignment, Transparency, and Security) is an independent research and educational seminar program focused on growing the AI safety and security research field by funding and mentoring early-career researchers and field-builders. MATS runs multi-track research fellowships in Berkeley…
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Mercatus CenterMercatus Center at George Mason University is a university-affiliated research center that aims to bridge academic ideas and real-world problems through market-oriented and classical-liberal economics and policy analysis. Mercatus describes itself as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that is…
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MercorMercor is an AI-native labor network that connects domain experts (e.g., professionals who can evaluate, analyze, or execute work in a field) with AI labs and enterprises that need that expertise to build, test, and deploy AI systems. Mercor positions its platform as both (1) a talent…
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Meta AIMeta AI is Meta Platforms’ AI research and product organization focused on multimodal generative AI and open-weight model ecosystems, plus in-house deployment of those capabilities across Meta’s consumer and developer surfaces. It publishes open research and model releases (notably the Llama…
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METRMETR (pronounced “meter”) is an independent AI safety research nonprofit that develops and applies scientific evaluation methods for frontier AI systems, with a focus on (1) autonomous, long-horizon capabilities that can enable substantial real-world task completion and (2) threat research on how…
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MidjourneyMidjourney is an independent, self-funded creative technology studio and consumer SaaS platform for generating images (and related media workflows) from natural-language prompts, with a strong community-first distribution model through both Discord and a consumer-facing web application. Midjourney’s…
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MilaMila (Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute) is a Montreal-based nonprofit research institute focused on advancing machine learning and deep learning through open-science research, education, and technology transfer. It describes itself as a “major university research centre” created…
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MiniMaxMiniMax (minimax.io) is a global AI foundation model company focused on multimodal model development and consumer + developer-facing AI products. The company states that its proprietary multimodal model family—led by “MiniMax M3” for language/coding, “MiniMax H3” for video generation, plus speech…
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Mistral AIMistral AI is a France-based frontier AI company building a “sovereign” stack around open-weight and commercial language models—covering model development, enterprise product layers, and infrastructure—aimed at organizations that need control over data, deployment, and long-term model behavior. The…
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MIT CSAILThe MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) is MIT’s large, multidisciplinary research laboratory focused on computer science and artificial intelligence. CSAIL’s mission emphasizes building computing technologies that improve how people work, play, and learn, and the…
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MIT FutureTechMIT FutureTech is an interdisciplinary research group at MIT that studies the foundations of progress in computing—identifying the most important technical and economic trends driving advancements in AI and computing, and examining how these trends underpin scientific progress and economic…
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MLCommonsMLCommons is a non-profit, open AI engineering consortium focused on collaborative, open benchmark and dataset work intended to improve AI systems’ quality, performance, safety, speed, and efficiency. The organization coordinates multi-stakeholder efforts across industry and academia to publish…
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ModalModal (company) is a private serverless compute and infrastructure platform for AI workloads, aimed at letting developers run inference, fine-tuning/training, sandboxed execution (including reinforcement learning and agent workloads), and large-scale batch jobs without managing underlying clusters…
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Moonshot AIMoonshot AI (website: moonshot.ai) is an AI company focused on long-context and “open-weight” foundation models, marketed through its Kimi model and developer platform. The company’s flagship model in this cycle is Kimi K3: a 2.8T open model with native multimodality and a claimed 1-million-token…
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MoonvalleyMoonvalley is an AI research and creative tools company building professional generative video models trained on licensed content. On its website, Moonvalley positions its flagship model “Marey” as a “commercially safe” foundation video model intended for filmmaking workflows, emphasizing…
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Moore ThreadsMoore Threads (Moore Threads Technology Co., Ltd.; listed as 摩尔线程, stock code 688795 on the Shanghai STAR Market) develops “Universal GPU” chips and a broader accelerated-computing stack spanning chips, graphics cards, and cluster/platform solutions. The company positions its offering as an…
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MythicMythic (mythic.ai) is a private AI semiconductor company focused on analog compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures for efficient neural-network inference at the edge and in data centers. The company’s core premise is that conventional AI accelerators waste energy by shuttling data between separate…
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NablaNabla is a healthcare AI company that builds an ambient clinical documentation platform and related tools to reduce the administrative burden on clinicians while generating structured documentation from real-world patient encounters. The core experience is designed to work inside existing clinical…
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Nabla BioNabla Bio is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based AI-for-science company building generative protein-design technology for therapeutic discovery. The company’s stated objective is to make drug discovery “designable” by combining multimodal generative modeling with human-relevant experimental measurement…
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National Institute for AI Evaluation and SecurityThe National Institute for AI Evaluation and Security (INESIA) is a French national public initiative created to build sovereign, rigorous capabilities for evaluating advanced AI systems and addressing AI-related security and systemic risks. INESIA is described by France’s SGDSN (General Secretariat…
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National Institute of Standards and TechnologyThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a U.S. non-regulatory research and standards agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST’s mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways…
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Navigation FundNavigation Fund (site: navigation.org) is a U.S.-based philanthropic grantmaker that funds “neglected” or underfunded global challenges through a practitioner-led, invitation-forward model. It concentrates grantmaking in three main cause areas—Climate Change, Farm Animal Welfare, and Transforming…
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NebiusNebius (Nasdaq: NBIS) is a public AI infrastructure company headquartered in Amsterdam that positions itself as “the AI cloud company,” selling a full-stack platform for taking AI systems from data and model training through production runtime and deployment. Its infrastructure strategy combines…
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Niskanen CenterThe Niskanen Center is a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit public policy think tank that says it advances prosperity, opportunity, and human flourishing by combining policy research with advocacy targeted at legislative and executive decision-makers. Its stated approach emphasizes evidence-based…
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NIST Center for AI Standards and InnovationThe NIST Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) is a U.S. government research and standards organization within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Department of Commerce). CAISI is tasked with serving as “industry’s primary point of contact within the U.S. government”…
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NotionNotion is a private workplace “toolmaking” platform that combines documents, wikis, databases, and project management into a single connected workspace, then layers AI features and agentic automation on top. Its recent product direction emphasizes agents that can carry out multi-step work in Notion…
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Nous ResearchNous Research is an open-source AI lab and products company building (1) open-weight language models and (2) supporting infrastructure for model creation and distributed training, and then packaging those capabilities into an agent-centric developer/user experience centered on its Hermes Agent. On…
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NscaleNscale is a privately held AI infrastructure company building and operating “full-stack” neocloud capacity—covering power, AI-focused data centers, GPU superclusters, and managed software—to deliver enterprise AI training, fine-tuning, and inference. The company positions its differentiation around…
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Nuclear Threat InitiativeThe Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organization focused on reducing nuclear, biological, and emerging technology threats that imperil humanity. NTI combines policy analysis and convening with targeted program implementation to help governments and…
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NVIDIANVIDIA Corporation is a public semiconductor and AI computing platform company that designs GPU and CPU architectures, networking and data-processing units, and full-stack systems and software used to build and operate accelerated computing environments. In recent years, NVIDIA’s platform strategy…
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Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, conducting multidisciplinary research and development spanning computing, energy, materials, nuclear science, and national security. ORNL is a “government-owned,…
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OdysseyOdyssey is a privately held AI lab developing “world models”—action-conditioned systems intended to understand and simulate how the world evolves over time—aimed at enabling interactive video and broader simulation use cases. Across its product work, Odyssey emphasizes real-time, user-interactive…
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OpenAIOpenAI is a frontier AI research and deployment organization structured around a nonprofit mission and a for-profit public benefit corporation. The OpenAI Foundation governs OpenAI Group PBC, which operates as a public benefit corporation that is required to advance the company’s stated mission and…
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OpenAI FoundationThe OpenAI Foundation is a U.S.-based charitable grantmaking institution created to ensure that “artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,” spanning both scientific upside and societal preparation for advanced AI. The Foundation describes its mission as addressing both how AI can…
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OpenEvidenceOpenEvidence is an AI-native medical evidence search and clinical decision-support platform built for clinicians. The company positions its product around delivering evidence-based answers sourced and cited from the medical literature directly to verified healthcare professionals, and it has…
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OpenRouterOpenRouter is an AI inference “gateway” and model marketplace that provides a single, API-first interface to access and route requests across many third-party model providers. Instead of forcing developers to integrate separately with each provider, OpenRouter standardizes request handling and…
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Orbital MaterialsImportant disambiguation: the website you provided (orbitalmaterials.com) currently redirects to Orbital Industries (orbitalindustries.com). The rest of this profile is therefore for Orbital Industries, using the company identity and claims on the official Orbital Industries properties (including…
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OriOri (ori.co) is no longer operating as a standalone company under the Ori brand. The ori.co site now points to Radiant (radiant.co), stating that Radiant is the new company formed through the merger of Ori Industries and Brookfield’s AI infrastructure capabilities, with Ori’s technology, team, and…
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OrthogonalOrthogonal (orxl.org) is a nonprofit AI alignment research organization focused on “agent foundations” and, specifically, formal-goal alignment. It frames alignment as constructing a coherent, fully formal target (rather than a goal stated in natural language) and designing an AI decision process…
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OwkinOwkin is a privately held AI company building “agentic” biological AI products for drug discovery, clinical development, and (via a spin-out) diagnostics. Its core platform is K Pro, described by Owkin as an AI scientist for biopharma that orchestrates agentic AI skills to reason over multimodal…
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Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryPacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory focused on mission-driven research and technology development across energy and the environment, fundamental scientific discovery, and national security. PNNL is operated by Battelle for DOE under a…
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Palisade ResearchPalisade Research is a Berkeley, California–based nonprofit that studies advanced AI capabilities and motivations with the goal of preventing “permanent disempowerment” from strategic AI agents. Its work is organized around (1) understanding potential “drives and motivations” behind agentic…
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Parallel DomainParallel Domain is a synthetic data and sensor-simulation company focused on “physical AI” for autonomy programs. Its platform turns customers’ real-world sensor capture (e.g., drive/flight logs) into simulation-ready reconstructions and then renders deterministic, multi-sensor sensor outputs so…
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ParloaParloa is a private enterprise AI company that builds an agentic AI platform for customer service, with a strong focus on voice automation for high-volume, high-stakes contact center interactions. The core product is its AI Agent Management Platform (AMP), which is positioned as an “agent lifecycle”…
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Partnership on AIPartnership on AI (PAI) is an independent U.S. nonprofit (501(c)(3)) that convenes a multi-stakeholder community spanning academia, civil society, industry, and media to develop research, frameworks, and practical guidance aimed at advancing positive outcomes for people and society through AI. PAI…
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Patrick J. McGovern FoundationThe Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) is a Boston-based philanthropic organization that supports AI and data science “for good,” aiming to strengthen the human and institutional infrastructure needed to ensure AI and data are developed and used ethically and equitably. PJMF describes itself as…
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PauseAIPauseAI is a Dutch-founded, volunteer-organized international advocacy federation pressing for a “temporary pause” on training the most powerful general/frontier AI systems until they can be built safely and kept under democratic control. The group’s proposal centers on turning public pressure into…
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Periodic LabsPeriodic Labs is an AI-for-science company building autonomous “AI scientists” that can form hypotheses and run physical experiments in laboratory environments, then learn from the resulting data. The company says it is starting in the physical sciences, with a focus on materials discovery and…
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PerplexityPerplexity (Perplexity AI, Inc.) builds an AI-powered “answer engine” that answers questions by searching the web in real time and returning conversational responses with citations and links back to original sources. In addition to consumer search/answer experiences, the company provides APIs and…
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PhotoroomPhotoroom is a Paris-headquartered company providing AI image-editing software focused on product photography and commerce content. It combines automated background removal and “retouch” style fixes with generative features intended to make product visuals faster to create, more consistent, and…
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Physical IntelligencePhysical Intelligence (π) develops general-purpose vision-language-action (VLA) foundation models intended to control robots across many embodiments and physical tasks. The company’s stated goal is to build a single model that can “control any robot to do any task,” and it describes its approach as…
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PikaPika is a consumer-focused generative video creation company and platform. Its core product is a video-generation app that lets users create short social-first videos from prompts and then apply editing-style controls (including features it describes as image-to-video and text-to-video). On its…
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Pivotal ResearchPivotal Research is a non-profit, non–share-capital company incorporated in England & Wales that runs an in-person research fellowship program in London aimed at reducing global catastrophic risks—especially those related to advanced AI and biotechnology. Its core program is a structured, mentor-led…
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PolyAIPolyAI builds and deploys enterprise conversational voice agents—software intended to handle customer service conversations over phone (and, increasingly, multiple channels) with enterprise-grade controls. The company’s stated platform, the Agentic Dialog Platform, combines purpose-built dialog…
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PoolsidePoolside is a private foundation-model and AI-agents company focused on software engineering. The company builds open-weight “agentic coding” models and a production platform intended to run inside customers’ security boundaries—so teams can write, understand, test, refactor, and operate complex…
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PositronPositron (positron.ai) is an AI infrastructure company focused on accelerating Transformer model inference using purpose-built hardware and an accompanying software stack. The company’s positioning centers on improving cost and energy efficiency versus GPU-based inference, particularly for memory-…
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Pour DemainPour Demain is a Swiss- and Belgium-registered non-profit think tank that works at the intersection of science, policy, and civil society. Its stated mission is to develop evidence-based, targeted policy proposals for pressing societal risks—especially advanced AI safety and governance, and…
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Prime IntellectPrime Intellect builds a full-stack, “open superintelligence” platform for teams that want to train, evaluate, and deploy agentic (RL-trained) models without relying on closed frontier labs. The company’s product is presented as an integrated loop across (1) RL environments, (2) hosted…
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ProfluentProfluent is a privately held AI-for-science company building foundation models for writing proteins—aiming to enable programmable biology for medicine, agriculture, and beyond. The company focuses on de novo protein design and gene editing, combining large-scale protein language models with an…
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PydanticPydantic (Pydantic Services Inc.) is a developer-tools company building a “type-safe” stack for the Python and AI ecosystem: (1) Pydantic Validation for runtime data validation based on Python type hints, (2) Pydantic AI for building agentic LLM applications with typed, validated tool…
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QwenQwen is an open-weight (and increasingly hosted) family of large language and multimodal models built by Alibaba for developers and organizations. Alibaba describes Qwen as a family designed to support real-world decision-making and action, working across multiple information types (documents,…
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R Street InstituteR Street Institute (R Street) is a non-profit, nonpartisan public policy research organization founded in 2012 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It describes its mission in terms of advancing classical liberal principles—supporting free markets and limited, effective government—and fostering…
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Radical AIRadical AI is an AI-for-science company building “self-driving labs” for materials discovery—systems intended to connect material performance goals to AI-generated experimental plans that run in autonomous robotic lab workflows and iterate until targets are met. The company describes its approach as…
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Rain AIRain AI (operating under Rain Neuromorphics Inc., per its site footer) is a private AI hardware startup building energy-efficient accelerator technology for AI inference and training. The company’s stated technical direction is “digital in-memory computing” (D-IMC), which it describes as a…
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RAND CorporationRAND Corporation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research organization that conducts rigorous research to help leaders make evidence-based decisions. RAND’s mission is to “help improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis,” supported by sponsored research and philanthropic…
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RebellionsRebellions is a semiconductor and systems company focused on AI inference infrastructure—purpose-built accelerators and an accompanying software stack aimed at reducing the power and operational cost of running frontier models in data centers and enterprise environments. The company’s product…
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RecursionRecursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical-stage TechBio company developing an end-to-end, AI-native drug discovery and development platform it calls the Recursion OS. The company’s approach combines high-throughput automated laboratory experimentation with proprietary multimodal biological and chemical…
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Redwood ResearchRedwood Research is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit AI safety and security research organization focused on threat assessment and mitigation for powerful AI systems that could purposefully act against the interests of their developers and human institutions. Redwood’s technical work centers on “AI…
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Reflection AIReflection AI is a private AI lab focused on building frontier “open” intelligence—models intended to be distributed as open weights and paired with open-source tooling—aimed at enabling organizations to run and customize powerful agentic systems on their own infrastructure. The company’s stated…
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Regie.aiRegie.ai is a privately held B2B sales engagement and prospecting platform that positions “AI agents” and an AI-native workflow at the center of outbound. The company’s current product direction is RegieOne / RegieGO (agentic workspace) where AI handles a large share of list building, enrichment,…
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Relation TherapeuticsRelation Therapeutics is an AI-driven biopharmaceutical company building a biology-first, lab-and-computation “loop” to identify and validate therapeutic targets from human, high-resolution cellular data. The company’s platform is described as integrating (1) multi-modal patient data (including…
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Relevance AIRelevance AI is a venture-backed platform for building and running enterprise “AI workforces”—teams of specialized AI agents that operate across business workflows. The company positions its product as a low/no-code “agent operating system” that lets subject-matter experts create agents, organize…
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Renaissance PhilanthropyRenaissance Philanthropy is a U.S. nonprofit foundation and fund platform that helps philanthropists and foundations design, launch, and operate time-bound, thesis-driven philanthropic funds focused on science, technology, and innovation. Its core operating model is to “catalyze philanthropic…
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ReplicateReplicate is a developer platform for running open(-ish) machine-learning models via a consistent API and infrastructure layer. The core product is a model catalog and execution layer where developers can “run” packaged models (including many community and third-party models) without managing the…
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ReplitReplit is an AI-native software creation platform that combines a browser-based development environment with AI “agent” tooling to help people generate, iterate, and ship applications with less manual coding. The platform’s core workflow centers on creating software inside Replit—where code,…
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ResolutionResolution is a nonprofit research institute focused on increasing “a priori confidence” in the alignment of advanced artificial intelligence—particularly through a portfolio approach that combines theory and empirics, then accelerates progress via automation. In its founding announcement,…
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Responsible AI InstituteThe Responsible AI Institute (RAI Institute) is a U.S.-based, member-driven nonprofit “do tank” focused on making responsible AI governance practical through independent assessment, verification, and standards-aligned assurance programs. RAI Institute’s core offering, TrustX, is described as a…
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Retell AIRetell AI is a private voice agent platform for building, deploying, and monitoring AI agents that handle production phone workflows (e.g., inbound customer service, sales/appointment booking, and contact-center routing). The company positions its product as “production-first” voice…
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Robert Wood Johnson FoundationThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a U.S. private foundation dedicated to improving health and health equity through grantmaking, research, and fellowships. Guided by its long-running emphasis on a “Culture of Health” and an evolving focus on structural racism as a major barrier to health,…
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Robin AIRobin AI (Robin AI Limited) builds an AI contract review and legal workflow automation platform aimed at in-house legal teams and other enterprises that handle high volumes of contracts. The company positions its product as a “Legal Intelligence Platform,” combining document understanding,…
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RogoRogo is an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for financial institutions. The company positions its system as an “AI analyst” for deal and investment workflows—aiming to automate and speed up research, analysis, and the production of client-ready materials while maintaining enterprise controls…
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Roots of Progress InstituteRoots of Progress Institute (RPI) is a US-based 501(c)(3) public educational nonprofit that works to establish a “new philosophy of progress” for the 21st century and to build a “culture of progress.” It frames progress as something that can be understood, supported, and accelerated rather than…
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RunPodRunpod is an on-demand GPU compute platform positioned as an “AI Developer Cloud.” It provides a self-serve control plane for running AI workloads across three main compute modes: Serverless GPU endpoints for API-driven inference workloads that scale down to zero, Pods for persistent GPU instances…
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RunwayRunway is an applied AI research and product company building multimodal video generation and “world model” systems, aimed at helping creators and organizations generate, edit, and control video and interactive media. The company’s consumer and enterprise offerings combine (1) proprietary generative…
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Safe AI ForumSafe AI Forum (SAIF) is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit that aims to foster international coordination to minimize extreme AI risks and ensure AI benefits are shared by all. SAIF’s institutional “field-building” mechanism is to convene cross-jurisdiction scientific and policy communities, then translate…
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Safe SuperintelligenceSafe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) is a U.S.-based AI safety research lab whose stated sole focus is “building safe superintelligence,” framed as the central technical problem SSI exists to solve. SSI positions its work as a “straight-shot” program—building toward superintelligence while keeping…
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SaferAISaferAI is a France-based nonprofit that works on quantitative AI risk measurement, AI governance research, and accountability for frontier AI systems. The organization describes its mission as creating risk measurement tools for governments and companies managing AI systems, combining technical…
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Sakana AISakana AI (Sakana AI 株式会社) is a Tokyo-based AI R&D company (founded July 2023) that pairs nature-inspired, evolutionary and collective-intelligence research with “Applied” product and enterprise implementation work. On the product side, the company has built user-facing and API-accessible systems…
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SambaNovaSambaNova (website sambanova.ai) is a private enterprise AI infrastructure company that focuses on faster, lower-power AI inference for large language models (LLMs) and agentic workloads. The company’s core differentiator is a reconfigurable dataflow approach delivered through its Reconfigurable…
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SanaSana (sanalabs.com / sana.ai) is an enterprise “knowledge and learning + agent” platform that combines AI-driven knowledge access with AI-native learning and content creation workflows. In its original independent form, Sana offered tools to (1) index and retrieve company knowledge through…
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Sanctuary AISanctuary AI builds “Physical AI” systems that pair general-purpose humanoid-style robot hardware (including its Phoenix robot platform) with proprietary robot cognition/control software (Carbon) to automate complex, dexterous industrial tasks. The company’s stated objective is to deliver…
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SandboxAQSandboxAQ is an enterprise AI company that positions itself at the intersection of AI and quantum techniques, using what it calls Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) to generate physics/chemistry-grounded results for real-world use cases. The company’s go-to-market centers on B2B deployments and…
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Sandia National LaboratoriesSandia National Laboratories (Sandia) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) national laboratory focused on delivering science and engineering support for national security missions. Sandia’s core purpose is “to render exceptional service in the national…
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Santa Fe InstituteThe Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent nonprofit research and education center focused on the study of complex systems across disciplines. SFI frames its mission as “Science for a Complex World” and operates as a 501(c)(3), using cross-disciplinary collaboration to develop theory and methods…
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ScalewayScaleway is a European sovereign cloud and AI provider that delivers secure, transparent, and sustainable infrastructure for organizations with high digital sovereignty requirements. The company positions itself as a full “Cloud & AI” platform across compute, data management, and AI/GPU…
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Schmidt SciencesSchmidt Sciences is a New York–based U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit (Schmidt Sciences, LLC) founded in 2024 by Eric and Wendy Schmidt to advance science and technology for public benefit, with philanthropic focus areas including AI & advanced computing, astrophysics & space, biosciences, climate, and…
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Secure AI ProjectSecure AI Project (SAIP) is a U.S.-based public-policy organization focused on advancing legislative requirements meant to reduce severe-harm risks from advanced AI systems—especially by making large AI developers’ safety and security practices subject to transparency and verification by independent…
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SecureBioSecureBio is a U.S.-based nonprofit biosecurity organization developing technologies and research to reduce catastrophic biological risk, including risks involving pandemic pathogens and dual-use biotechnology. The organization’s work is organized around (1) Detection—pathogen-agnostic early-warning…
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Serve RoboticsServe Robotics (Nasdaq: SERV) builds and operates autonomous sidewalk delivery robots and associated autonomy/software and remote monitoring capabilities. The company began as Uber-adjacent delivery robotics (spun out of Postmates after Uber acquired Postmates) and commercialized robot delivery…
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Shield AIShield AI is a U.S.-founded defense technology company building autonomy software (“AI pilots”) and autonomous aircraft for contested environments where GPS and communications may be degraded or denied. The company’s core software platform is Hivemind, which it positions as an end-to-end solution…
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SierraSierra (sierra.ai) is an enterprise customer-experience (CX) platform for building and operating “AI agents” that can handle complex, multi-step customer journeys across channels (voice, chat, email, messaging, and ChatGPT). Rather than deploying single-use support bots, Sierra positions its agents…
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SiMa.aiSiMa.ai (SiMa Technologies, Inc.) builds machine-learning systems-on-chip (MLSoC) technology and a software toolchain for deploying “Physical AI” at the edge—where latency, power, and on-device compute constraints matter. The company’s hardware is centered on MLSoC product families (including…
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Simon Institute for Longterm GovernanceThe Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI) is a Geneva-based Swiss non-profit think tank focused on improving international cooperation on governing transformative technologies, with its current program emphasis on frontier AI diplomacy. SI’s core operating model combines (1) policy-relevant…
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Skild AISkild AI builds general-purpose foundation models for robotics, positioning its technology as an “omni-bodied” brain that can control diverse robot embodiments (e.g., quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, and mobile manipulators) for a wide range of tasks. The company’s product approach emphasizes…
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SkydioSkydio is a U.S.-headquartered autonomous-drone company that sells end-to-end systems for defense, public safety, and critical infrastructure inspection. Its approach combines autonomous onboard flight (visual navigation and obstacle avoidance), purpose-built drone hardware (e.g., X10/X10D and…
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SpaceXAISpaceXAI (brand/site: x.ai) builds frontier AI systems and consumer + enterprise products around its Grok model family, plus developer tooling via an API and agent-oriented features. The company positions Grok as a conversational assistant that can perform tasks across text, coding/agentic…
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SpAItialSpAItial (SpAItial Ltd) builds physically-grounded world models—an approach SpAItial describes as “Spatial Foundation Models” / “Physically-grounded World Models”—whose output is a persistent, explorable 3D representation rather than a sequence of frames. The company’s primary product is the Echo…
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Special Competitive Studies ProjectSpecial Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) is a non-partisan, non-profit strategy and policy organization focused on strengthening U.S. long-term competitiveness amid artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. SCSP’s mission is to produce recommendations for how the United States…
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Speculative TechnologiesSpeculative Technologies is a nonprofit industrial research lab for public good that works to create the missing “institutional infrastructure” for ambitious, coordinated scientific and technological programs. It aims to move promising but “big-if-true” work out of limbo by (1) developing research…
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Stack AIStackAI (brand: “StackAI”) is an enterprise platform for building and running agentic workflows that connect large language models to company data and business systems. The company positions its product as an “enterprise AI agent factory” designed for IT teams to orchestrate, deploy, govern, and…
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Stanford Center for Research on Foundation ModelsThe Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) is an interdisciplinary initiative at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) focused on advancing the study, development, and deployment of foundation models from both technical and societal perspectives.…
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Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AIThe Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (Stanford HAI) is an interdisciplinary Stanford University institute that advances AI and data-science research, education, and policy with a stated mission of improving the human condition. It was launched in 2019 and organizes its work around the…
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SukiSuki (Suki AI, Inc.) is a healthcare AI company focused on “ambient clinical intelligence” for clinicians and health technology partners. The company’s flagship product, Suki Assistant, is designed to reduce the administrative burden of clinical documentation by listening to patient–clinician…
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SunoSuno is an AI music creation platform that combines “music models” with a consumer-facing production and sharing workflow. It targets everyday creators as well as professional music makers, positioning Suno Studio as the place where people shape songs with more “professional-level depth” in a…
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Survival and Flourishing FundSurvival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) is a grantmaking-adjacent “virtual fund” that organizes the collection and evaluation of grant applications so philanthropists can decide where to donate to organizations working on humanity’s long-term survival and flourishing. SFF describes itself as a website…
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SynthesiaSynthesia (Synthesia Limited) is a private enterprise AI video platform that helps organizations create and scale professional, on-brand video communications without cameras, studio crews, or manual editing. The platform is positioned for learning and development, enablement, HR, and corporate…
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Taiga CloudTaiga Cloud (taigacloud.com) is a European sovereign generative-AI cloud and GPU-capacity provider that operates as part of Northern Data Group. The company positions its offering as Europe-first and EU-data-sovereign, with compute supplied exclusively from within the EU and data centers located in…
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Talos NetworkTalos Network is a German nonprofit organization focused on building a European talent pipeline for AI governance and public policymaking. Its core strategy is to run structured, cohort-based development programmes that combine policy training, a Brussels policymaking summit, and (for select tracks)…
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TensorWaveTensorWave is an AMD-exclusive AI cloud provider built to let organizations train, fine-tune, and run inference on large models without relying on a single GPU vendor ecosystem. The company positions itself as an alternative to Nvidia-dominated AI infrastructure, offering memory-optimized AMD…
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TenstorrentTenstorrent is an AI compute company that designs AI accelerators built around its Tensix technology and couples them with a RISC-V CPU approach and an open software stack. In practice, the company sells AI hardware (PCIe cards and workstation/server configurations) and also offers licensable AI and…
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Terray TherapeuticsTerray Therapeutics is an AI-native small-molecule drug discovery and development company that positions its advantage in building an integrated “experimentation meets machine intelligence” platform. Terray’s core product approach centers on generating dense, quantitative chemical and target…
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The Future SocietyThe Future Society (TFS) is an independent nonprofit policy organization focused on aligning artificial intelligence (AI) through better governance. It works internationally—spanning the United States, European Union, and global policy forums—by producing research and policy recommendations,…
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Thinking Machines LabThinking Machines Lab is an AI research and product company focused on building customizable frontier systems and “open-weights” models, alongside tools that let developers and researchers fine-tune those models in controlled ways. The company’s product strategy centers on (1) releasing…
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TimaeusTimaeus (timaeus.co) is an AI safety research organization that focuses on applying singular learning theory (SLT) to developmental interpretability and technical AI alignment. Its core research direction is to understand how training data shapes model behavior and how internal neural-network…
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Together AITogether AI (together.ai) is a research-driven AI infrastructure company that provides a production platform for open-weight (open-source) model inference, fine-tuning/training, and GPU-based accelerated compute. Its platform is positioned as “AI-native cloud” infrastructure that lets developers…
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TransluceTransluce is an independent, nonprofit research lab building open and scalable technology for understanding AI systems and steering their development “in the public interest.” It frames today’s core problem as the gap between how AI systems behave once deployed and how reliably their developers can…
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Twelve LabsTwelve Labs is a private AI company building video-native multimodal “world” understanding systems for developers and enterprises that need to turn large video libraries into searchable, analyzable, and actionable knowledge. Its platform centers on foundation models for video understanding…
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UK AI Security InstituteThe UK AI Security Institute (AISI) is a UK government research organisation within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) focused on evaluating advanced AI systems and developing/testing mitigations for advanced AI risks. Its stated mission is to equip governments with a…
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UK GovernmentThe AI Security Institute (AISI) is a UK government research organisation within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Its mission is to equip governments with a scientific understanding of risks posed by advanced (frontier) AI, by conducting and commissioning technical…
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UK Health Security AgencyThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is the United Kingdom’s executive health-protection and health-security agency, sponsored by the UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). UKHSA’s core mission is to prepare for and respond to infectious diseases and environmental hazards, providing…
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United Nations Institute for Disarmament ResearchThe United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is an autonomous United Nations institute established by the UN General Assembly to conduct independent research on disarmament and related international security problems, supporting negotiations and the broader multilateral disarmament…
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United Nations Office for Disarmament AffairsThe United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) is a UN Secretariat office that supports disarmament and arms control processes and helps enable multilateral negotiations and implementation across the UN’s disarmament architecture. It advises and assists UN Member States, relevant UN…
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United States Department of EnergyThe United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a U.S. federal executive department responsible for addressing the nation’s energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through a combination of transformative science and technology, energy policy and regulation support, and nuclear security…
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United States SenateThe United States Senate is the upper chamber of the bicameral U.S. Congress. It legislates by considering and voting on bills, performs constitutional oversight of the executive branch, and conducts procedures such as hearings, committee investigations, and confirmations of certain presidential…
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UnitreeUnitree (officially Yushu Technology Co., Ltd., “宇树科技股份有限公司”) is a robotics company building legged and humanoid robots for both consumer/education and industrial/enterprise use cases. It markets a portfolio that spans quadruped robot lines (e.g., Go2, Go1, and industrial quadrupeds such as B2 and…
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University of Chicago Harris School of Public PolicyThe University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy is the University of Chicago’s graduate public-policy school and an academic center within UChicago. Harris’ mission is to advance analysis- and evidence-informed public policy through rigorous research, educate policy leaders, and engage with…
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University of Chicago Market Shaping AcceleratorThe University of Chicago Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA) is an academic initiative focused on “market shaping” mechanisms—policy and incentive designs that make innovation financially viable when purely commercial incentives lag social value—applied to challenges such as pandemics and climate…
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US GovernmentUSA.gov (USAGov) is the U.S. government’s official website for finding and understanding government benefits, programs, and information. It is an interagency portal managed by USAGov, a program within the U.S. General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS). USAGov’s scope…
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US Policy FellowshipsUS Policy Fellowships is not a standalone operating nonprofit; it is the “US policy fellowships” opportunity collection presented on 80,000 Hours’ job board, pointing job-seekers to US-based fellowships and policy-related career pathways. The underlying fellowship database and guides are maintained…
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VapiVapi is a developer platform for building and deploying production voice AI agents that can make/receive phone calls and handle conversational flows with low latency. The platform is positioned as an orchestration layer across speech-to-text (transcription), an LLM/model layer, and text-to-speech…
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Various Fellowship Providers“Various Fellowship Providers” is not a standalone organization. It is the label used inside 80,000 Hours’ job board listing “US policy fellowships,” where 80,000 Hours curates and links to multiple fellowship programs for people pursuing careers in US policy work. In that context, “Various…
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Vector InstituteVector Institute is an independent, not-for-profit AI research and adoption organization based in Toronto that aims to translate cutting-edge machine learning and deep learning research into practical, trustworthy deployments across Canada’s economy. Its mission explicitly bridges academic discovery…
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ViamViam (Viam, Inc.) is a physical-AI infrastructure company building a software platform for developing, deploying, and managing robotics applications from prototype to fleet scale. Its approach centers on a modular, open, hardware-agnostic architecture that exposes robotics capabilities (e.g., motion…
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Vista Institute for AI PolicyVista Institute for AI Policy is a fiscally sponsored, nonprofit AI policy organization focused on (1) building the AI law and policy academic field and (2) developing talent for AI governance careers. Its mission is to promote informed policymaking to navigate emerging challenges and opportunities…
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Voltage ParkVoltage Park (voltagepark.com) is a GPU infrastructure provider positioning itself as a “neocloud” and “AI Factory” that supplies on-demand and reserved bare-metal GPU compute for AI workloads. The company emphasizes that it owns both hardware and software, offering AI compute access with…
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VultrVultr (a Constant Company brand) is an independent cloud infrastructure provider focused on globally available, developer-friendly Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) with a strong emphasis on GPU capacity for AI workloads. The company positions itself as a “neocloud” alternative to hyperscalers,…
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WaabiWaabi is a private Physical AI company building end-to-end autonomous driving technology for trucking and expanding into robotaxis. Its platform centers on the “Waabi Driver,” a generative-AI-based, verifiable system that Waabi says can generalize across driving environments and across vehicle…
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WaymoWaymo (Waymo LLC) is an Alphabet subsidiary developing and operating commercial, fully autonomous driving technology and services (L4 robotaxi). It offers the Waymo Driver (the autonomy stack and fleet technology) and runs autonomous ride-hailing through the Waymo One app, alongside autonomous goods…
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WayveWayve is a private, London-headquartered embodied-AI company building an end-to-end “AI Driver” for autonomous driving that is designed to generalize across vehicle types, geographies, and environments. The company positions its technology as mapless and vehicle-agnostic: Wayve’s AI Driver is…
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White House Office of Science and Technology PolicyThe White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is an Executive Office of the President (EOP) office established by Congress in 1976 to provide the President and the EOP with advice on the scientific, engineering, and technological aspects of national policy and the work of the…
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Wilson CenterThe Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (the “Wilson Center”) is a congressionally chartered, nonpartisan policy institution in Washington, D.C., designed as a “living memorial” to President Woodrow Wilson and structured to connect scholarship with public policy. Its mission is to…
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Works in ProgressWorks in Progress is a long-form publishing project focused on “new and underrated ideas to improve the world,” covering topics such as economic growth, technology, policy, history, metascience, cities, medical research, aesthetics, transport, and energy. It was founded in 2020 and is now part of…
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World LabsWorld Labs is a frontier “spatial intelligence” company building large world models intended to help AI perceive, generate, reason about, and interact with both virtual and physical worlds. Its first product is Marble, a generative 3D world model and creator application that generates spatially…
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WriterWRITER is an enterprise AI platform for agentic work—positioned as a “full-stack” system that combines WRITER-built LLMs (the Palmyra family), knowledge grounding, and governance controls so organizations can build, run, and supervise AI agents in real business workflows. The company’s current…
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Xaira TherapeuticsXaira Therapeutics is an AI-native biotechnology company building an end-to-end drug discovery and development platform that combines (1) advanced machine learning research, (2) large-scale biological data generation, and (3) therapeutic product development across modalities. The company positions…
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Yale Law SchoolYale Law School is Yale University’s professional law school located in New Haven, Connecticut. The school describes itself as a “leader in legal education,” emphasizing a small-by-design learning environment with world-renowned faculty, small classes, extensive clinical training, and encouragement…
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Z.ai (Zhipu AI)Z.ai (brand name for Zhipu AI) is an AI platform company that develops the GLM family of foundation models and packages them into hosted “model + agent” products for developers and end users. The company’s commercial stack is centered on a MaaS (Model-as-a-Service) platform, where GLM models are…
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ZiplineZipline is a robotics and “instant logistics” company that designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems intended to move goods quickly and reliably without traditional last‑mile constraints. The company’s approach centers on an integrated delivery ecosystem—autonomous aircraft…
Physical AI
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