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Country: Israel | Funding: $626.5M
AI21 Labs specializes in developing open-source enterprise LLM models named Jamba. The startup competes with AI giants by focusing on enterprise market and local secure deployment. Jamba models are characterized by high performance and reliability, as well as the ability to be customized to meet the individual needs of each organization. Jamba's 256 KB context window quickly processes large documents, from financial reports and contracts to searching across entire knowledge bases. AI21 Labs also provides a platform that enables enterprises to develop their own generative AI applications and agents based on Jamba models. Maestro agents can extract, analyze and synthesize data from various sources, delivering accurate and transparent results.
AI21 Labs specializes in developing open-source enterprise LLM models named Jamba. The startup competes with AI giants by focusing on enterprise market and local secure deployment. Jamba models are characterized by high performance and reliability, as well as the ability to be customized to meet the individual needs of each organization. Jamba's 256 KB context window quickly processes large documents, from financial reports and contracts to searching across entire knowledge bases. AI21 Labs also provides a platform that enables enterprises to develop their own generative AI applications and agents based on Jamba models. Maestro agents can extract, analyze and synthesize data from various sources, delivering accurate and transparent results.
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Country: Italy | Funding: €40M
iGenius develops enterprise AI platform that allows to create and manage AI applications and agents via centralized control system. iGenius AI agents operate in a companie's closed loop and adapt to specific business context. iGenius is also developing its own enterprise LLM model with an open enterprise license. Domyn models are designed for industries with strict compliance standards, such as financial services, public sector and heavy industry. They are trained in the FP8 format, optimize the use of computing resources, accelerate computation and reduce costs and energy consumption. Continuous training on company's own data allows the language model to incorporate domain-specific knowledge and adapt to the organization's requirements. The architecture of Domyn language models is designed to meet the highest security and compliance standards in regulated sectors.
iGenius develops enterprise AI platform that allows to create and manage AI applications and agents via centralized control system. iGenius AI agents operate in a companie's closed loop and adapt to specific business context. iGenius is also developing its own enterprise LLM model with an open enterprise license. Domyn models are designed for industries with strict compliance standards, such as financial services, public sector and heavy industry. They are trained in the FP8 format, optimize the use of computing resources, accelerate computation and reduce costs and energy consumption. Continuous training on company's own data allows the language model to incorporate domain-specific knowledge and adapt to the organization's requirements. The architecture of Domyn language models is designed to meet the highest security and compliance standards in regulated sectors.
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Country: USA | Funding: $42.4B
xAI is Elon Musk's me-too startup, which couldn't resist the AI craze and invested heavily in the project. Initially, the company created the AI chatbot Grok for X/Twitter users, and later grew into a universal LLM provider for users and companies (via API). Grok's distinguishing feature is its more censorship-free worldview (which has occasionally led to controversy). Grok also initially focused on real-time context generation from online data (rather than pre-training). In addition to language, Grok can generate images. xAI also runs the world's largest supercomputer, Colossus and is engaged in AGI research (accoring to Elon Mask, xAI seeks to understand the true nature of the universe).
xAI is Elon Musk's me-too startup, which couldn't resist the AI craze and invested heavily in the project. Initially, the company created the AI chatbot Grok for X/Twitter users, and later grew into a universal LLM provider for users and companies (via API). Grok's distinguishing feature is its more censorship-free worldview (which has occasionally led to controversy). Grok also initially focused on real-time context generation from online data (rather than pre-training). In addition to language, Grok can generate images. xAI also runs the world's largest supercomputer, Colossus and is engaged in AGI research (accoring to Elon Mask, xAI seeks to understand the true nature of the universe).
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Country: USA | Funding: $56M
Inception is building diffusion generative models for code and text. Diffusion models are mostly used to power image-based AI systems like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, but Inception says that diffusion-based LLMs can be also much faster and efficient than auto-regression (GPT) models. Where auto-regression models have to execute operations one after another, diffusion models can process many operations simultaneously. Unlike GPT that work sequentially and predict word by word based on the context, diffusion models modify the overall structure of a response incrementally until it matches the desired result. They also have more flexibility in how they utilize hardware. Inception's Mercury model, designed for software development is already integrated into a number of development tools.
Inception is building diffusion generative models for code and text. Diffusion models are mostly used to power image-based AI systems like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, but Inception says that diffusion-based LLMs can be also much faster and efficient than auto-regression (GPT) models. Where auto-regression models have to execute operations one after another, diffusion models can process many operations simultaneously. Unlike GPT that work sequentially and predict word by word based on the context, diffusion models modify the overall structure of a response incrementally until it matches the desired result. They also have more flexibility in how they utilize hardware. Inception's Mercury model, designed for software development is already integrated into a number of development tools.
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Country: Japan | Funding: $368.6M
Sakana AI develops LLM models for Japan. Founded in 2023 by former Google researchers, it creates accessible generative AI models that perform well on small datasets and are optimized for the Japanese language and culture. The company focuses on the defense and manufacturing sectors. Its technological research is inspired by the natural principles of evolution and collective intelligence. The developers say that evolution in nature is a masterful search algorithm, generating complex solutions over millennia and they aim to adapt this incredible search algorithm to AI-based research.
Sakana AI develops LLM models for Japan. Founded in 2023 by former Google researchers, it creates accessible generative AI models that perform well on small datasets and are optimized for the Japanese language and culture. The company focuses on the defense and manufacturing sectors. Its technological research is inspired by the natural principles of evolution and collective intelligence. The developers say that evolution in nature is a masterful search algorithm, generating complex solutions over millennia and they aim to adapt this incredible search algorithm to AI-based research.
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Country: USA | Funding: $61.9B
OpenAI develops generative AI models: GPT for language, DALLE for images and Sora for video. The company's main product is the chatbot ChatGPT, which is used as a personal smart assistant and in enterprise customer support and knowledge management systems via APIs. The company also conducts scientific research aimed at achieving artificial general intelligence. The company's initial goal was the security and openness of artificial intelligence, but it has gradually moved toward closing and commercializing its ML and NLP technologies. According to CEO Sam Altman, AGI is achieving a certain amount of revenue. The primary OpenAI's investor is Microsoft and it has strategic partnership with NVidia.
OpenAI develops generative AI models: GPT for language, DALLE for images and Sora for video. The company's main product is the chatbot ChatGPT, which is used as a personal smart assistant and in enterprise customer support and knowledge management systems via APIs. The company also conducts scientific research aimed at achieving artificial general intelligence. The company's initial goal was the security and openness of artificial intelligence, but it has gradually moved toward closing and commercializing its ML and NLP technologies. According to CEO Sam Altman, AGI is achieving a certain amount of revenue. The primary OpenAI's investor is Microsoft and it has strategic partnership with NVidia.
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Country: USA | Funding: $43.7B
Anthropic was founded by a group of former OpenAI employees who wanted to preserve the goal of AI safety. Anthropic is one of technology leaders in the AI market. Its core product is a family of LLM models under the Claude brand, which are used in the form of a chatbot and API for business. The strength of this model is quality code generation. The company promotes an approach called "Constitutional AI" according to which models are trained according to a set of principles, values, and rules (like Asimov's Laws of Robotics). In addition to selling commercial products, the company is actively researching the interpretability of AI models and AGI.
Anthropic was founded by a group of former OpenAI employees who wanted to preserve the goal of AI safety. Anthropic is one of technology leaders in the AI market. Its core product is a family of LLM models under the Claude brand, which are used in the form of a chatbot and API for business. The strength of this model is quality code generation. The company promotes an approach called "Constitutional AI" according to which models are trained according to a set of principles, values, and rules (like Asimov's Laws of Robotics). In addition to selling commercial products, the company is actively researching the interpretability of AI models and AGI.
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Country: France | Funding: €3B
Mistral is a leading European AI company that develops own LLM models and provides AI products and solutions for the enterprise. The startup competes with American AI giants by focusing on the European market and local specifics/languages. Furthermore, Mistral is committed to open source - nearly all of its models are open. The company has created the online assistant Le Chat, which is available on the web and mobile app, free and by subscription. It also offers businesses the AI Studio platform for creating and managing the full lifecycle of enterprise models and agents, Mistral Code - AI-powered software development system and Mistral Compute - European AI cloud that combines high-performance GPUs, ready-to-use orchestration and advanced model building tools into a single, fully integrated platform.
Mistral is a leading European AI company that develops own LLM models and provides AI products and solutions for the enterprise. The startup competes with American AI giants by focusing on the European market and local specifics/languages. Furthermore, Mistral is committed to open source - nearly all of its models are open. The company has created the online assistant Le Chat, which is available on the web and mobile app, free and by subscription. It also offers businesses the AI Studio platform for creating and managing the full lifecycle of enterprise models and agents, Mistral Code - AI-powered software development system and Mistral Compute - European AI cloud that combines high-performance GPUs, ready-to-use orchestration and advanced model building tools into a single, fully integrated platform.
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Country: UK
DeepMind was acquired by Google as a leading ML startup and now acts as its mostly independent AI division. Its initial goal was to create strong artificial intelligence, which the developers hoped to achieve through the ability to play games (Atari, Go, chess, Dota) and control physical robots. DeepMind gradually took over all of Google's AI projects, including the LLM model and the Gemini chatbot. DeepMind was one of the first to develop multimodal intelligence, including language, code, images, video and 3D world generation. Furthermore, the startup continues projects of creating specialized machine learning systems for various industries, including medicine (drug development) and energy (energy optimization for Google's data centers).
DeepMind was acquired by Google as a leading ML startup and now acts as its mostly independent AI division. Its initial goal was to create strong artificial intelligence, which the developers hoped to achieve through the ability to play games (Atari, Go, chess, Dota) and control physical robots. DeepMind gradually took over all of Google's AI projects, including the LLM model and the Gemini chatbot. DeepMind was one of the first to develop multimodal intelligence, including language, code, images, video and 3D world generation. Furthermore, the startup continues projects of creating specialized machine learning systems for various industries, including medicine (drug development) and energy (energy optimization for Google's data centers).
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Country: China
DeepSeek is specializing in the development of large-scale open-source language models. The company unexpectedly grew out of a Chinese hedge fund and disrupted the AI market with its technologies, which significantly reduced the cost of training and inference of LLM models. These technologies include Mixture of Experts - a fragmented model splitting into individual "experts" so that only a small portion of the model could be used for each task. Unlike traditional language models, which rely heavily on supervised fine-tuning, DeepSeek relies primarily on reinforcement learning. It also came up with the idea of using distilled data from OpenAI models for training. DeepSeek provides its online chatbot and an API for business. Its responses are often criticized due to Chinese censorship.
DeepSeek is specializing in the development of large-scale open-source language models. The company unexpectedly grew out of a Chinese hedge fund and disrupted the AI market with its technologies, which significantly reduced the cost of training and inference of LLM models. These technologies include Mixture of Experts - a fragmented model splitting into individual "experts" so that only a small portion of the model could be used for each task. Unlike traditional language models, which rely heavily on supervised fine-tuning, DeepSeek relies primarily on reinforcement learning. It also came up with the idea of using distilled data from OpenAI models for training. DeepSeek provides its online chatbot and an API for business. Its responses are often criticized due to Chinese censorship.
