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The AI Company Map
47 companiesThe AI economy runs on more than model providers. This map profiles the companies across the full stack, the labs training frontier models, the chipmakers and datacenter operators supplying compute, the clouds serving inference, and the tooling and capital connecting them, and the people who run them. Compare provider pricing →
API Providers
10AI21 LabsIsraeli lab building Jamba hybrid SSM-Transformer models and reliability-focused enterprise AI systems.API ProviderAlibabaChinese tech giant behind Qwen, the world's most widely adopted open-weight model family.API ProviderAnthropicAI safety-focused lab behind the Claude model family, backed by Amazon, Google, and enterprise adoption.API ProviderCohereEnterprise-focused model builder specializing in secure, privately deployable AI for business and government.API ProviderDeepSeekChinese lab whose ultra-cheap R1 reasoning model rewrote assumptions about frontier training economics.API ProviderGoogleAlphabet's AI empire: Gemini models, DeepMind research, custom TPUs, and a hyperscale cloud.API ProviderMistral AIEurope's leading frontier lab, known for efficient open-weight models and the Le Chat assistant.API ProviderMoonshot AIBeijing lab behind Kimi, pushing long-context and open-weight trillion-parameter reasoning models.API ProviderOpenAIMaker of ChatGPT and the GPT model line — the company that turned frontier AI into a mass-market product.API ProviderxAIElon Musk's frontier lab building Grok on the Colossus supercomputer, merged with X.API Provider
Research Labs
3MetaSocial media giant turned open-weight AI power, spending tens of billions on Llama and superintelligence.Research LabSafe SuperintelligenceIlya Sutskever's lab pursuing safe superintelligence as its only product — no interim releases.Research LabThinking Machines LabMira Murati's lab, launched with a record $2B seed round to build steerable, understandable AI.Research Lab
Chipmakers
9AMDNVIDIA's primary GPU challenger with the Instinct MI line, plus the EPYC CPUs powering AI datacenters.ChipmakerArmThe chip-architecture licensor whose energy-efficient designs are spreading into AI data centers.ChipmakerBroadcomThe quiet giant co-designing custom AI accelerators for hyperscalers and supplying AI networking silicon.ChipmakerCerebrasBuilder of the wafer-scale engine — the largest chip ever made — for fast AI training and inference.ChipmakerGroqInference-specialist chipmaker whose LPU delivers record token throughput and low latency.ChipmakerIntelThe x86 giant rebuilding its foundry and AI accelerator ambitions amid a historic turnaround.ChipmakerNVIDIADesigns the GPUs that train and serve nearly every frontier model — the arms dealer of the AI boom.ChipmakerQualcommMobile-chip leader extending its NPU expertise into on-device AI and, newly, data-center inference.ChipmakerTSMCThe Taiwanese foundry that manufactures nearly every advanced AI chip on earth.Chipmaker
Datacenters
3CrusoeEnergy-first AI infrastructure builder developing large-scale, power-optimized datacenters.DatacenterDigital RealtyGlobal data-center REIT supplying the hyperscale and high-density capacity that AI compute needs.DatacenterEquinixThe world's largest interconnection and colocation provider, hosting the plumbing of the AI cloud.Datacenter
Cloud Platforms
8AmazonAWS runs the largest cloud, backs Anthropic, and builds Trainium chips to challenge NVIDIA.Cloud PlatformCoreWeaveThe GPU-specialist "neocloud" that scaled from crypto mining to a leading AI infrastructure provider.Cloud PlatformFireworks AIFast, production-grade inference platform for open-weight models and compound AI systems.Cloud PlatformLambdaGPU cloud and workstation maker serving AI developers with on-demand and reserved NVIDIA capacity.Cloud PlatformMicrosoftOpenAI's largest backer and the hyperscaler embedding AI across Azure, Copilot, and Windows.Cloud PlatformNebiusEuropean AI-cloud company, spun out of Yandex, building large NVIDIA GPU clusters for AI workloads.Cloud PlatformOracleEnterprise-software veteran turned AI-cloud powerhouse via OCI and the Stargate program.Cloud PlatformTogether AIOpen-model inference and training cloud offering fast, cost-efficient serving of hundreds of models.Cloud Platform
Toolings
6AnysphereMaker of Cursor, the AI code editor that became one of the fastest-growing developer tools ever.ToolingDatabricksData and AI platform unifying analytics, governance, and model building on the lakehouse.ToolingHugging FaceThe GitHub of machine learning — the default hub for open models, datasets, and ML tooling.ToolingLangChainPopular framework and observability platform for building LLM applications and agents.ToolingOpenRouterA unified API and marketplace routing requests across hundreds of models and providers.ToolingScale AIData-labeling and evaluation company central to training frontier models, now tied to Meta.Tooling
Investors
2Roboticss
2Consumer AIs
4Character.AIConsumer platform for conversational AI characters, whose founders returned to Google in 2024.Consumer AIElevenLabsLeading AI voice and audio company for realistic speech synthesis, dubbing, and voice agents.Consumer AIMidjourneyIndependent, profitable image-generation lab known for its distinctive aesthetic quality.Consumer AIPerplexityAI answer engine reframing search as cited, conversational responses over live web results.Consumer AI
Who's Who in AI
34The people behind the AI economy, the founders running frontier labs, the CEOs supplying chips and datacenter capacity, and the researchers whose work sets the direction. Each profile links to the companies they lead and the models they ship.
Aidan GomezCEO, CohereAidan Gomez is the co-founder and CEO of Cohere and a co-author of the transformer paper that underpins modern AI. He has focused Cohere on secure, enterprise-grade models rather than the consumer chatbot race.CohereAlexandr WangChief AI Officer, MetaAlexandr Wang is the founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, the chief AI officer leading Meta Superintelligence Labs. He built Scale into a critical supplier of training data and evaluation for the frontier labs before Meta's landmark investment brought him in-house.MetaAndrej KarpathyFounder, Eureka LabsAndrej Karpathy is the founder of the AI-education startup Eureka Labs, a founding member of OpenAI, and the former director of AI at Tesla. His open teaching materials and reference implementations have trained a generation of AI engineers.Andrew FeldmanCEO, CerebrasAndrew Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, maker of the wafer-scale engine — the largest computer chip ever built — designed for fast AI training and inference.CerebrasAndy JassyCEO, AmazonAndy Jassy is the president and CEO of Amazon and the founder of AWS, the world's largest cloud platform. He oversees Amazon's AI strategy spanning Bedrock, custom Trainium silicon, and its major investment in Anthropic.AmazonAravind SrinivasCEO, PerplexityAravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, the AI answer engine challenging traditional search. He has built the company into one of the fastest-growing consumer AI products by reframing search as cited, conversational answers.PerplexityArthur MenschCEO, Mistral AIArthur Mensch is the co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI, Europe's leading frontier lab. A former DeepMind researcher, he has made Mistral the standard-bearer for efficient open-weight models and European AI sovereignty.Mistral AIBrett AdcockCEO, FigureBrett Adcock is the founder and CEO of Figure, a humanoid-robot company applying frontier AI to general-purpose physical labor. He is a serial entrepreneur betting that AI advances will finally make humanoids commercially viable.FigureC.C. WeiChairman & CEO, TSMCC.C. Wei is the chairman and CEO of TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, which manufactures nearly every advanced AI accelerator. His capacity and technology decisions gate the supply of frontier AI compute.TSMCClément DelangueCEO, Hugging FaceClément Delangue is the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the central hub of the open machine-learning ecosystem. He has made the company the default home for sharing open models, datasets, and ML tooling.Hugging FaceDaniela AmodeiPresident, AnthropicDaniela Amodei is the co-founder and president of Anthropic, where she oversees day-to-day operations, policy, and go-to-market for the Claude model family. She previously led safety and policy teams at OpenAI.AnthropicDario AmodeiCEO, AnthropicDario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the AI safety-focused company behind the Claude model family. A former OpenAI research leader, he has become one of the most influential voices on frontier model capabilities, safety, and the economics of scaling.AnthropicDemis HassabisCEO, Google DeepMindSir Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for AlphaFold. He leads the research organization behind the Gemini model family, making him central to Google’s position in the AI race.GoogleElon MuskCEO, xAI & TeslaElon Musk is the founder and CEO of xAI, CEO of Tesla, and an OpenAI co-founder who became one of its sharpest critics. Through xAI's Grok models, the Colossus supercomputer, and Tesla's real-world AI, he is a major force across the AI landscape.xAIFidji SimoCEO of Applications, OpenAIFidji Simo is the CEO of Applications at OpenAI, overseeing the company's product and business operations. She joined in 2025 from Instacart, where she was chief executive, bringing consumer-scale product leadership to OpenAI.OpenAIGreg BrockmanPresident, OpenAIGreg Brockman is the co-founder and president of OpenAI and its longtime engineering leader. He has been central to building the infrastructure and systems behind the GPT models and ChatGPT.OpenAIHock TanCEO, BroadcomHock Tan is the president and CEO of Broadcom, which he built through acquisitions into a semiconductor and software giant. Broadcom co-designs custom AI accelerators for hyperscalers and supplies critical AI networking silicon.BroadcomIlya SutskeverCEO, Safe SuperintelligenceIlya Sutskever is the co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI) and one of the most cited researchers in deep learning. A co-author of AlexNet and former chief scientist of OpenAI, his research agenda has repeatedly defined the frontier of the field.Safe SuperintelligenceJakub PachockiChief Scientist, OpenAIJakub Pachocki is the chief scientist of OpenAI, having succeeded Ilya Sutskever in 2024. He has led key research behind the company's reasoning models and frontier training runs.OpenAIJared KaplanChief Science Officer, AnthropicJared Kaplan is a co-founder and the chief science officer of Anthropic, and a theoretical physicist whose research on neural scaling laws helped define the modern approach to training large models.AnthropicJeff DeanChief Scientist, GoogleJeff Dean is the chief scientist of Google and Google DeepMind, and one of the most influential engineers in computing history. He co-created the infrastructure — MapReduce, TensorFlow, and the TPU program — on which much of modern AI runs.GoogleJensen HuangCEO, NVIDIAJensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, whose GPUs power the vast majority of AI training and inference worldwide. His company’s pricing, allocation, and roadmap decisions effectively set the cost floor for the entire AI industry.NVIDIAJonathan RossCEO, GroqJonathan Ross is the founder and CEO of Groq and the original creator of Google's Tensor Processing Unit. He founded Groq to build inference-specialized chips that deliver record token throughput.GroqLiang WenfengFounder, DeepSeekLiang Wenfeng is the founder of DeepSeek and the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer. His lab's ultra-low-cost, open-weight R1 reasoning model triggered a global market reaction and reset assumptions about the economics of frontier AI.DeepSeekLisa SuCEO, AMDLisa Su is the chair and CEO of AMD, which she rebuilt from near-collapse into the primary challenger to NVIDIA in AI accelerators. Her Instinct GPU line and open ROCm software stack are the most important competitive check on AI compute pricing.AMDMark ZuckerbergCEO, MetaMark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Meta, whose open-weight Llama models reset industry expectations for the price of capable AI. His 2025 pivot to a dedicated superintelligence lab and record capital spending made Meta one of the largest buyers of AI compute on earth.MetaMasayoshi SonChairman & CEO, SoftBank GroupMasayoshi Son is the founder, chairman, and CEO of SoftBank Group, one of the largest financiers of the AI era. Through Arm, the Stargate program, and enormous investments in OpenAI, he has staked SoftBank's future on artificial superintelligence.SoftBank GroupMichael IntratorCEO, CoreWeaveMichael Intrator is the co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, the GPU-specialist cloud that scaled from cryptocurrency mining into one of the most important AI infrastructure providers, culminating in a high-profile 2025 IPO.CoreWeaveMira MuratiCEO, Thinking Machines LabMira Murati is the founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab and the former chief technology officer of OpenAI. She launched her lab with the largest seed round in history, drawing much of OpenAI's senior research talent with her.Thinking Machines LabMustafa SuleymanCEO, Microsoft AIMustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI, a co-founder of DeepMind, and a co-founder of Inflection AI. He leads Microsoft's consumer AI products and its first-party model development.MicrosoftSam AltmanCEO, OpenAISam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family. As the most prominent figure of the commercial AI boom, his decisions on model releases, API pricing, and infrastructure spending shape the economics of the entire industry.OpenAISatya NadellaCEO, MicrosoftSatya Nadella is the chairman and CEO of Microsoft, whose multibillion-dollar OpenAI partnership and Azure infrastructure made it the early commercial leader of the generative AI era. His capital-allocation decisions are among the largest single inputs to global AI compute supply.MicrosoftSundar PichaiCEO, Google & AlphabetSundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet, steering the company’s AI-first strategy, the Gemini model family, and its custom TPU silicon. Google’s vertically integrated stack — chips, cloud, models, and distribution — makes his decisions pivotal to AI pricing worldwide.GoogleYann LeCunAI researcher and Turing Award laureateYann LeCun is a Turing Award-winning pioneer of convolutional neural networks and was Meta’s chief AI scientist for over a decade before announcing in late 2025 that he would depart to pursue a new venture focused on world models. He remains one of the most influential — and contrarian — voices on where AI architectures go next.