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AI companies

The companies behind the AI tools, from chip makers and cloud operators to model labs and apps. Every entry is reviewed individually and has a source.

Who is behind your AI tool?

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Pick a company to see its owners, investors, and partners with evidence.

AI companies from chips to apps

All 163 reviewed companies and projects, arranged by what they do. Tap one for details, evidence, and relationships. Unverified locations and founding years stay blank.

163 entries, each with a source and review date

Layer 1

Chips11

Layer 2

Hyperscalers6

Layer 3

Models24

Layer 4

Infrastructure48

Layer 5

Applications61

Across all layers

Capital13

Who invests in whom is listed with amount and status on a separate page. Who owns ChatGPT?

has sourced connectionsRoles are editorial assignments. A company can perform several tasks but appears here under its main role.

  • Separate tool and model

    A product name alone does not tell you which model processes your request.

  • Separate relationships

    Ownership, capital, and compute contracts are different things. A cloud partnership does not make a lab a subsidiary.

  • Check privacy at the product

    Headquarters, investors, and group membership do not establish a processing location. The terms of the specific product decide.

AI companies in numbers

163 reviewed AI companies and projects, plus 15 dated valuations. Only what has evidence on this page is counted.

AI companies by layer and region

163 entries by main role and home region

  • Chips11
  • Hyperscalers6
  • Models24
  • Infrastructure48
  • Applications61
  • Capital13
  • USA95
  • Europe35
  • China10
  • Other23

The selection is editorial and not a market share. It shows where this map lists many names, not how large a region is.

Source: gradually.ai, own count
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When the companies were founded

92 of 163 entries with a sourced starting year, median 2016

  1. 24
  2. 7
  3. 10
  4. 26
  5. 8
  6. 17
  1. to 1999
  2. 2000-2009
  3. 2010-2014
  4. 2015-2019
  5. 2020-2022
  6. 2023 on

Entries without a sourced founding or launch year are missing here. They are not estimated.

Source: gradually.ai, own count
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The most valuable AI companies

Private valuations from funding rounds. Each figure has its own date, so the order is a snapshot.

The most valuable private AI companies

Private valuations from funding rounds, in USD billions

These are not simultaneous market prices; each figure has its own date. Listed groups such as NVIDIA or Microsoft are missing, as are press reports of newer rounds that the company has not confirmed. SparkLabs describes the Prometheus valuation as approximate, and the ElevenLabs figure comes from an employee share sale. xAI and Cursor belong to SpaceX and are not valued separately. Mistral AI states its valuation only in euros (more than €21B, September 2026).

Sources checked between Oct. 7, 2026 and Nov. 12, 2026

Source: funding rounds, linked per row
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AI on the world map

Where the models come from, where ChatGPT is used, and where private capital sits. Countries without a value stay gray, not zero.
Gradually LLM selection by developer location
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2 models140 models
5 countries with data
Data as a table
CountryValue
Canada4 models
China74 models
France18 models
United Arab Emirates2 models
United States140 models
Source: Gradually LLM selection (Nov 2026)
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238 of 303 entries in the LLM selection have a country mapping. The remaining entries are omitted here. Countries without a value have no mapped entries; this does not measure their model production.

Private AI investment 2025

Share of the world total of $344.7B

  • USA$285.9B82.9%
  • Europe$20.9B6.1%
  • China$12.4B3.6%
  • Rest of world (remainder)$25.5B7.4%

The rest of the world is the arithmetic remainder. A company’s headquarters says nothing about where it buys compute.

Source: Stanford AI Index 2026
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Frequently asked questions about AI companies

Size, valuations, and Europe’s place on this map.

The directory does not produce a single overall leader. Model labs, chip suppliers, cloud operators, and applications serve different roles. Revenue, market value, private valuation, and computing capacity also measure different things. Compare companies within the same role and metric, and keep each valuation’s reference date.

Among privately funded AI companies with a figure of their own, Anthropic leads at $965B (May 2026), ahead of OpenAI at $852B (March 2026) and Databricks at $190B (August 2026). These are valuations from funding rounds on different dates, not simultaneous market prices. A newer round can change the order at any time. Listed groups such as NVIDIA or Microsoft are not on this list because their market value moves daily and reflects more than their AI business.

Stanford reports approximately $20.92B in private AI investment in Europe in 2025, compared with $285.88B in the United States. Europe has its own labs, applications, and infrastructure, including Mistral, Black Forest Labs, DeepL, ASML, SAP, and OVHcloud. A company’s headquarters establishes neither where it buys compute nor where customer data is processed.

Changelog

The latest updates and improvements to our AI companies
November 12, 2026v1.4

More companies, logos, and a separate page on ownership

  • 44 more AI companies reviewed and added, including Broadcom, Google Cloud, Baidu, Lovable, n8n, and seven investors
  • Company logos for almost every entry, with well-known names first in each layer
  • New charts on layers, regions, and founding years, plus 15 dated valuations
  • Ownership, investors, and relationships now have their own page, “Who owns ChatGPT?”
November 9, 2026v1.3

Redesigned: a map from chips to apps

  • A search in the page head shows each company’s owners, investors, and partners with evidence
  • Every reviewed company on a map of five layers with a capital column, region filter, and detail view
  • A directed relationship network with an evidence table, capital amounts listed one by one with their status instead of a sum, and a visible world map
October 7, 2026v1.2

Capital and ownership

  • Dated capital sources separating investments from conditional ceilings
  • OpenAI ownership as an October 2025 snapshot and SoftBank’s confirmed final tranche
  • Current valuations, Stanford regional data, and individually sourced directory entries
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August 23, 2026v1.1

Directory expansion

  • Google Cloud hyperscaler, Canadian AI institutes, open-weights collectives, VC nodes
August 21, 2026v1.0

Initial release

  • Ownership map using the same capital flows and valuations as the AI statistics
  • Orbit, Sankey, and OpenAI ownership, plus a directory of labs, hyperscalers, and European names
  • xAI listed as part of SpaceX, Cursor listed as a SpaceX subsidiary after the 14 August 2026 close