WHO BUILT WHAT, AND WHEN

AI Companies

The 17 companies and labs behind today's most important AI models — with founding year, headquarters and key products.

Microsoft AI

1975 · Redmond, USA

Microsoft has become a key player in the field of artificial intelligence with a multi billion dollar investme…

Technology Devi / Cloud Provider

NVIDIA

1993 · Santa Clara

Founded as a graphic processor (GPU) manufacturer, NVIDIA has become the most critical company that provides h…

Artificial Intelligence Equipment

Google DeepMind

2010 · London, United Kingdom

Founded in London in 2010, DeepMind was purchased by Google in 2014, and joined Google DeepMind in 2023. The c…

Large Language Model Laboratory

Meta AI (FAIR)

2013 · Menlo Park, USA

The FAIR (Fundamental AI Research), an artificial intelligence research unit of Meta, is known for the support…

Large Language Model Laboratory

OpenAI

2015 · San Francisco, USA

ChatGPT and GPT is the most known company of artificial intelligence field, developing model family. Initially…

Large Language Model Laboratory

Hugging Face

2016 · New York, USA

Hugging Face, known as ‘GitHub’ of open source artificial intelligence models, has become the center of the de…

Open Source Platform

Runway

2018 · New York, USA

Runway, a pioneer in artificial intelligence-supported video production and editing, was founded by a team tha…

Visual/Creator AI Lab

Stability AI

2019 · London, United Kingdom

The company that revolutionizes the visual production field with the open source Stable Diffusion model. It wa…

Visual/Creator AI Lab

Cohere

2019 · Toronto, Canada

Cohere, which develops large language models focused on corporate (enterprise), focuses especially businesses …

Corporate AI Lab

Anthropic

2021 · San Francisco, USA

Founded by OpenAI’s former employees, Anthropic prioritizes security-oriented model development with the appro…

Large Language Model Laboratory

ElevenLabs

2022 · London, United Kingdom

ElevenLabs, considered a sector leader in realistic audio cloning and texting technology, changed voice conten…

Sound AI Lab

Perplexity AI

2022 · San Francisco, USA

The company that redefines the search experience with the concept of 'cevap engine' that produces real-time in…

AI Search Engine

Inflection AI

2022 · Palo Alto

Founded by one of DeepMind’s founding partners, Inflection AI is believed with personal and empathic AI assist…

Large Language Model Laboratory

xAI

2023 · San Francisco, USA

Founded by Elon Musk, xAI develops the Grok model that stands out with its deep integration and real-time data…

Large Language Model Laboratory

Mistral AI

2023 · Paris

Mistral AI, which stands out as Europe’s largest AI laboratory, is recognized with efficient and open weight m…

Large Language Model Laboratory

DeepSeek

2023 · Hangzhou, China

DeepSeek, founded as a subsidiary of a Chinese quantitative hedge fund company, attracted a global attention i…

Large Language Model Laboratory

Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)

2023 · Hangzhou, China

Alibaba Group’s cloud and artificial intelligence unit produces some of the most powerful outdoor models in Ch…

Large Language Model Laboratory