| Company | Stage | Headquarters | Funding | Description | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
🧠 OpenAI San Francisco, USA | Private (Late) | San Francisco, USA | $17B+ total | Builders of GPT-4o, o1, Sora, ChatGPT, GPT Store. | Aug 8, 2026 |
🎯 Anthropic San Francisco, USA | Private (Late) | San Francisco, USA | $7.3B+ (late private) | Creator of Claude family + Constitution RLHF. | Aug 7, 2026 |
♊ Google DeepMind London / Mountain View | Public (GOOGL) | London / Mountain View | Alphabet-owned | Gemini, AlphaFold, RT-X robotics, Gemini Nano. | Aug 8, 2026 |
🦙 Meta AI Menlo Park, USA | Public (META) | Menlo Park, USA | Balance sheet / OSS | Llama open models + Ray-Ban AI glasses + Orion AR. | Aug 6, 2026 |
🌀 Mistral AI Paris, France | Series B+ | Paris, France | $1.4B+ Series B/C | EU flagship: Mistral Large 2 + Codestral line. | Aug 5, 2026 |
👨💻 Cognition Labs San Francisco, USA | Series B | San Francisco, USA | $675M Series B | Maker of Devin autonomous software engineer agent. | Aug 6, 2026 |
🧍 Figure AI Sunnyvale, USA | Series B | Sunnyvale, USA | $1.1B Series B | Figure 02 production humanoid (MSFT + OpenAI). | Jul 30, 2026 |
𝕏 xAI Austin, USA | Private (Late) | Austin, USA | $25B+ capital | Grok models + 100k-chip Supercluster builds. | Aug 4, 2026 |
🧱 Databricks San Francisco, USA | Private (Late) | San Francisco, USA | $3.5B+ total | Lakehouse AI: DBRX open models + Mosaic AI. | Aug 2, 2026 |
📑 Cohere Toronto, Canada | Series E | Toronto, Canada | $1.4B+ Series B/C | Command R+, embed v4, rerank enterprise stacks. | Jul 31, 2026 |
🤗 Hugging Face Paris / New York | Series C+ | Paris / New York | $620M Series C+ | Models Hub, Transformers, Inference Endpoints. | Aug 8, 2026 |
🤝 Together AI San Francisco, USA | Series B | San Francisco, USA | $530M Series B | Open models cloud w/ custom fine-tune & blocks. | Aug 7, 2026 |
🔍 Perplexity AI San Francisco, USA | Series D | San Francisco, USA | $1.6B Series D | Search-native LLM + Sonar + Pages agents. | Aug 6, 2026 |
🟢 NVIDIA Santa Clara, USA | Public (NVDA) | Santa Clara, USA | Mkt cap > $3T | H100/B200/GH200, DGX, CUDA — backbone. | Aug 8, 2026 |
🔴 AMD Santa Clara, USA | Public (AMD) | Santa Clara, USA | Mkt cap > $300B | Instinct MI300 accelerators + Ryzen AI NPUs. | Aug 3, 2026 |
🧊 Cerebras Sunnyvale, USA | Series F | Sunnyvale, USA | $930M Series F | Wafer-Scale Engine CS-3 for 1-train-1-chip giants. | Jul 25, 2026 |
🚀 Groq Mountain View, USA | Private (Late) | Mountain View, USA | $1.5B+ private | LPU inference chips & ultra-low latency API cloud. | Aug 6, 2026 |
🎨 Stability AI London, UK | Series D | London, UK | $300M Series D | Stable Diffusion / Video / Audio open models. | Jul 28, 2026 |
🖼️ Midjourney SF / Remote-first | Profitable Bootstrapped | SF / Remote-first | $0 external (profitable) | Bootstrapped image powerhouse (v6 + v7 plan). | Aug 1, 2026 |
🎬 Runway New York, USA | Series C | New York, USA | $500M+ Series C | Gen-3/Gen-Turbo text-to-video + Motion Brush. | Aug 4, 2026 |
🧬 SambaNova Palo Alto, USA | Series G | Palo Alto, USA | $2.7B Series G | Full-stack chips + systems for sovereign enterprise. | Jul 27, 2026 |
🎲 Tenstorrent Toronto, Canada | Series F | Toronto, Canada | $750M Series F | RISC-V + Tensix AI accelerators, open software. | Jul 29, 2026 |
🤖 Roboflow Des Moines, USA | Series C | Des Moines, USA | $160M Series C | Computer vision data engine, 500k+ datasets. | Jul 31, 2026 |
🔗 LangChain San Francisco, USA | Series B | San Francisco, USA | $640M Series B | LangSmith observability + LangGraph agents stack. | Aug 3, 2026 |
📊 LlamaIndex San Francisco, USA | Series B | San Francisco, USA | $150M Series B | RAG & LLM data framework w/ Llama Cloud parsing. | Aug 5, 2026 |