Department · Cartography9 companies

The labs
behind the models.

Every flagship AI company, indexed by origin, type and traction. Filter by region, narrow to research labs or hardware, or browse the curated lineup country by country.

OriginAll USA31 China18 Europe11 UK10 Israel6 Canada4 Other0·TypeAny Labs Products Infra Hardware Platforms Research Flagship only

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Newest A–Z Founded

Apple

USA

Apple Intelligence — on-device LLMs across the Apple ecosystem.

ProductEst. 1976Cupertino

Perplexity

USA

Answer engine — search with citations.

ProductEst. 2022San FranciscoFlagship

Inflection AI

USA

Empathic chatbot lab — most of the team now at Microsoft.

ProductEst. 2022Palo Alto

Character.AI

USA

Roleplay chatbots — most of the team licensed back to Google.

ProductEst. 2021Menlo Park

Runway

USA

Generative video for filmmakers — Gen-4 leads the field.

ProductEst. 2018New YorkFlagship

Pika

USA

Generative video for the consumer side of the market.

ProductEst. 2023Palo Alto

Midjourney

USA

The pre-eminent image generation product — bootstrapped.

ProductEst. 2021San FranciscoFlagship

ElevenLabs

USA

The voice synthesis leader — TTS, voice cloning and dubbing.

ProductEst. 2022New York / LondonFlagship

Anysphere (Cursor)

USA

The AI-first code editor — Cursor.