The AI landscape

01.AI was founded in Beijing in May 2023 under Kai-Fu Lee’s leadership. It develops language models, enterprise AI solutions, and agents. Its model history includes the open-weight Yi family.

Copenhagen platform for enterprise AI governance. 2021.AI manages models, data, and controls centrally so teams can operate regulated AI applications with traceability.

Aleph Alpha develops specialized language models for applications in public administration and industry. As of 5 October 2026, its announced transaction with Cohere remained subject to regulatory approval. Aleph Alpha operates independently until closing.

AWS Bedrock and Trainium. In February 2026, Amazon announced a $50B investment in OpenAI: an initial $15B, followed by another $35B if certain conditions are met. The announcement does not establish that the full amount has been paid.

AMD develops semiconductor and computing products for data centers, PCs, gaming, and embedded systems.

Appen supplies data and human evaluation for AI training. The company was founded in Sydney in 1996.

Phoenix is Arize’s open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, and debugging AI applications, including LLM and RAG workflows.

Arm develops and licenses chip architectures. It is publicly listed. As of May 21, 2026, SoftBank Group held about 86.4% of its shares and a majority of the voting power, according to Arm.

arXiv is a research preprint repository launched in 1991. Papers can be shared there before formal review; arXiv itself is not a peer-review journal.

Askdata was an Italian startup for search-driven analytics and natural-language queries. SAP acquired the company in 2022, with technology intended for SAP Analytics Cloud.

ASML develops and manufactures lithography systems, related software, and services for semiconductor manufacturing.

mRNA plus InstaDeep (2023) for protein and design models. BioNTech is biology with its own AI subsidiary, not a chatbot. A European bio node on the map.

Black Forest Labs develops generative image models, including the FLUX family.

BlueDot uses AI to detect and monitor health risks worldwide. The platform evaluates public data to make outbreaks and travel related risks visible earlier.

The Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) is Bosch’s AI center of excellence. Established in 2017, it works on industrial AI, automated driving, manufacturing, and embedded AI.

brighter AI provides anonymization for images and video and has been part of Milestone Systems since 2025. Its technology replaces faces and license plates with synthetic renderings or blur.

CallMiner analyzes customer interactions for contact centers. It was founded in Cape Coral in 2002.

Caption Guidance is GE HealthCare’s AI-assisted ultrasound guidance product. It helps users acquire suitable images; the underlying Caption Health technology was acquired in 2023.

Captions is an AI video app by Mirage. The company was formerly named Captions and rebranded as Mirage in 2025.

Clarify Health develops data and analytics solutions for healthcare organizations, including network, quality, and care insights.

Clearbit was a B2B data enrichment provider acquired by HubSpot in 2023. New standalone subscriptions are no longer offered; HubSpot directs new customers to Breeze Intelligence.

Cognition develops the Devin software agent and the Devin Desktop development environment. Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf, combining its IDE with management of local and cloud agents.

Cohere develops foundation models and AI products for business applications.

Platform for experiment tracking and ML operations from the US. Comet versions code, data, parameters, and artifacts, while its Opik product adds tracing and evaluation for LLM applications.

CoreWeave provides GPU compute for AI training and inference. In September 2025, it reported OpenAI contracts with a combined value of up to approximately $22.4B. Contract value is not revenue already earned.

Anysphere develops the Cursor platform for AI-assisted software development. On August 14, 2026, Cursor said SpaceX had completed its acquisition. Cursor is now part of SpaceX; the company announcement did not disclose a purchase price.

DarwinAI was a Canadian company working on AI-based visual quality inspection for manufacturing. An Apple acquisition was reported in 2024; Waterloo EDC describes it as not officially confirmed by either party.

Databricks combines its Lakehouse, data platform, and AI services for enterprises. In August 2026, it closed a $5B strategic funding round at a $190B valuation.

Deci was an Israeli company focused on deep-learning optimization and inference acceleration. NVIDIA acquired it in May 2024; Deci is no longer a separate company.

DeepEval is the local open-source evaluation framework created by the Confident AI founders. It provides tests and metrics for LLM, RAG, and agent applications; Confident AI is the separate cloud platform.

DeepL provides AI software for translation and other language-related workflows.

DeepSeek released its open-weight V4 model family in 2026. The company lists V4-Pro at 1.6T total parameters, with 49B active per token. In September 2026, it added V4.1-Flash with native visual understanding to its API.

EleutherAI is an open research organization whose projects include GPT-NeoX and the Language Model Evaluation Harness. It develops models and tools for reproducible AI research.

ElevenLabs develops AI audio for speech, dubbing, and music. The Eleven Music API launched in August 2025. Its offices include London, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw.

Evidently AI provides open-source tools to test, evaluate, and monitor ML and LLM applications.