Companies & labs
The players shaping AI — labs, chipmakers, and platforms. Each page collects everything we've covered about them, with the analysis of why it mattered.
OpenAI is the San Francisco research company behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family, and a central force in the commercial AI race.
Anthropic is the AI-safety company that builds the Claude models, founded by former OpenAI researchers.
Google's AI spans the Gemini models and the Google DeepMind research lab, backed by its own TPU hardware and vast distribution.
Nvidia makes the GPUs that train and run most frontier AI, making it the pivotal hardware supplier of the current boom.
Microsoft ships AI across Copilot and Azure and is OpenAI's largest commercial partner and infrastructure provider.
Meta develops the open-weight Llama models and runs the FAIR research lab, anchoring the open-model side of the industry.
Apple builds on-device and cloud AI under Apple Intelligence, with a focus on privacy and tight hardware integration.
Amazon offers AI through AWS and the Bedrock model platform, and is a major backer of Anthropic.
Samsung supplies the high-bandwidth memory and manufacturing capacity that AI accelerators rely on.
Hugging Face runs the hub where much of the open-source AI community shares models and datasets.
AMD is Nvidia's main rival in AI accelerators, supplying Instinct GPUs to large AI deployments.
Intel is working to re-enter the AI-accelerator and foundry race against Nvidia and TSMC.
TSMC is the Taiwanese foundry that manufactures the advanced chips nearly every AI processor depends on.
xAI is Elon Musk's AI company, developer of the Grok models and the Colossus supercomputer.
Perplexity builds an AI-native answer engine that competes with traditional search.