A running set of profile notes on the AI companies and models shaping the industry. Click a card for a quick summary, or open the full article.
Chinese AI lab spun out of Tsinghua University research, developer of the GLM model family.
Elon Musk's AI company, developer of the Grok model family, closely integrated with X (formerly Twitter).
Chinese AI startup behind the Kimi assistant, known early on for very long context windows and now for its Kimi model family.
French AI lab and Europe's leading frontier AI company, known for efficient, openly licensed models.
Microsoft's AI product line, spanning the Copilot assistant family and its own Phi small-model research, built on top of a deep partnership with OpenAI.
Meta's AI research org, best known for the open-weight Llama model family.
Canadian AI company focused on enterprise-grade LLMs, emphasizing privacy, security, and customization over consumer chat products.
The lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family, and one of the primary drivers of the current LLM wave.
Google's AI research division, formed from the merger of DeepMind and Google Brain, and the team behind the Gemini model family.
Chinese AI lab known for releasing strong, openly available models at a fraction of the usual training cost.
AI safety-focused lab behind the Claude model family, built around the idea of 'Constitutional AI'.
Alibaba's AI division and its Qwen model family, one of the most widely used open-weight LLM lineups.