Frontier labs

Public benefit corporation building the Claude models, with a focus on AI safety research.

Maker of the GPT models and ChatGPT; its charter states the mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity.

Builds the Grok models; states its goal as understanding the true nature of the universe.

Enterprise language models (Command, Embed, Rerank); runs the Cohere Labs research group.

LG's EXAONE models.

NVIDIA's research arm; publishes the Nemotron and Cosmos model families.

Google's AI lab, behind AlphaGo, AlphaFold and the Gemini models.

Alibaba's Qwen model family, one of the most-downloaded open-weight series.

Tencent's Hunyuan language, image and 3D models.

Amazon's AGI organisation, building the Nova foundation models.

Government research institute behind the Falcon models.

ByteDance's foundation model team (Doubao, Seed models).

Tsinghua spin-out building the GLM models.

Baidu's ERNIE model family.

Open-weight reasoning and chat models (DeepSeek-V3, R1), backed by the High-Flyer fund.

Apple's research group behind the Apple Foundation Models.

Microsoft's consumer AI and model group led by Mustafa Suleyman, building Copilot and MAI models.

Nature-inspired methods such as evolutionary model merging and the AI Scientist.

Multimodal Step models.

Meta's AI research and model teams, behind the Llama open-weight models.

European lab shipping open-weight and commercial language models.

Models for Indian languages, selected for India's sovereign LLM programme.

Solar language models and document AI.

Text, speech and video models (MiniMax-M, Hailuo).

Multimodal models (Reka Core, Flash).

Baichuan models, now focused on medical AI.

Sovereign AI for European enterprises and governments.

Maker of the Kimi assistant and the open-weight Kimi K2 models.

Builds the Jamba models, a hybrid Transformer–Mamba architecture.

Ola group's AI company building Indian-language models.

Yi model series; founded by Kai-Fu Lee.

Arabic-first Jais models from G42's Inception unit.