Department · Cartography8 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.
Nvidia
USAThe GPU monopolist that powers virtually every frontier model.
HardwareEst. 1993Santa ClaraFlagship
Groq
USALPU silicon for ultra-low-latency LLM inference.
HardwareEst. 2016Mountain ViewFlagship
SambaNova Systems
USAReconfigurable dataflow silicon for enterprise AI.
HardwareEst. 2017Palo Alto
Cerebras Systems
USAWafer-scale silicon — entire model on a single chip.
HardwareEst. 2016Sunnyvale
Huawei
ChinaAscend silicon + Pangu LLM — China's domestic AI stack.
HardwareEst. 1987ShenzhenFlagship
Graphcore
UKIPU silicon — UK's homegrown AI accelerator.
HardwareEst. 2016Bristol
Habana Labs
IsraelAI training accelerators — acquired by Intel in 2019.
HardwareEst. 2016Caesarea
Tenstorrent
CanadaJim Keller's RISC-V AI silicon company.
HardwareEst. 2016TorontoFlagship