The most prominent foundational ai companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 61 companies tracked on Fsome.
| # | Company | Location | Employees | Total Funding | Last Round | Last Funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretab…
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San Francisco | 501 - 1K | $63.7B | Series G | 2026-02-12 |
| 2 |
xAI
XAI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops AI solutions and tools t…
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Palo Alto | 1K - 5K | $42.7B | Series E | 2026-01-06 |
| 3 |
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models…
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San Francisco | — | $211.0B | Series Unknown | 2026-03-24 |
| 4 |
NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics…
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Santa Clara | — | $4.1B | Grant | 2023-05-09 |
| 5 |
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI company that offers tools for speech synthesis, voice clonin…
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New York | — | $781.0M | Series D | 2026-02-04 |
| 6 |
Mistral AI
Mistral AI is an AI platform that provides large language models and AI services…
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Paris | 501 - 1K | $3.2B | Debt Financing | 2026-03-30 |
| 7 |
Writer
Writer is a software firm that develops a full-stack generative AI platform deli…
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San Francisco | — | $326.0M | Series C | 2024-11-12 |
| 8 |
MiniMax
MiniMax develops multimodal AI foundation models that support text, audio, image…
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Singapore | — | $1.1B | Corporate Round | 2025-12-23 |
| 9 |
Hippocratic AI
Hippocratic AI is a healthcare technology company that develops safety-focused l…
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Palo Alto | — | $402.0M | Series C | 2025-11-03 |
| 10 |
Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research and product company that aims to increas…
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San Francisco | — | $2.0B | Corporate Round | 2026-03-10 |
| 11 |
Cohere
Cohere is an enterprise AI firm developing secure and private AI technology to a…
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Toronto | — | $1.7B | Series D | 2025-09-24 |
| 12 |
Meta
Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communi…
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Menlo Park | — | $54.6B | Post Ipo Debt | 2025-08-08 |
| 13 |
World Labs
World Labs develops AI models with spatial intelligence for 3D world perception …
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San Francisco | 11 - 50 | $1.2B | Series Unknown | 2026-02-18 |
| 14 |
Anysphere
Anysphere is an applied research lab focused on automating coding through innova…
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San Francisco | — | $3.4B | Series Unknown | 2025-12-08 |
| 15 |
Runway
Runway offers generative AI tools for creating images, videos, and simulations, …
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New York | 101 - 250 | $859.5M | Series E | 2026-02-10 |
| 16 |
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs develops advanced generative deep learning models that focus o…
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Freiburg Im Breisgau | 11 - 50 | $450.2M | Series B | 2025-12-01 |
| 17 |
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI seeks solutions in transforming energy into intelligence and generat…
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Haidian | 101 - 250 | $2.8B | Series Unknown | 2026-02-17 |
| 18 |
Character.ai
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications in which users crea…
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Menlo Park | 51 - 100 | $150.1M | Series A | 2023-03-23 |
| 19 |
humans&
humans& operates as a frontier artificial intelligence research and product lab …
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Redwood City | 11 - 50 | $480.0M | Seed | 2026-01-20 |
| 20 |
Luma AI
Luma AI develops tools that let users generate photorealistic images and videos …
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Palo Alto | 101 - 250 | $1.1B | Series C | 2025-11-19 |
| 21 |
Cognition
Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning an…
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San Francisco | 101 - 250 | $896.0M | Series C | 2025-09-08 |
| 22 |
Project Prometheus
Project Prometheus is an artificial-intelligence company that builds systems for…
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— | 101 - 250 | $6.2B | Series Unknown | 2025-11-17 |
| 23 |
Harmonic
Harmonic is an artificial intelligence lab that develops mathematical reasoning …
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Palo Alto | 11 - 50 | $295.0M | Series C | 2025-11-25 |
| 24 |
Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences creates a scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab…
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Cambridge | 101 - 250 | $550.7M | Grant | 2026-01-20 |
| 25 |
AI21 Labs
AI21 Labs develops AI systems designed to understand and generate natural langua…
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Tel Aviv | 101 - 250 | $626.5M | Series D | 2025-05-11 |
| 26 |
Liquid AI
Build efficient general-purpose AI at every scale.
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Cambridge | 51 - 100 | $293.1M | Series A | 2024-12-13 |
| 27 |
DeepL
DeepL is a software company that offers a communication platform for AI based tr…
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Cologne | 1K - 5K | $400.0M | Series Unknown | 2024-05-22 |
| 28 |
Z.ai
Z.ai is an AI company that develops foundational AI models and tools that suppor…
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Haidian | 501 - 1K | $1.2B | Private Equity | 2025-07-02 |
| 29 |
Safe Superintelligence
Safe Superintelligence develops AI solutions prioritizing safety in artificial i…
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Palo Alto | 11 - 50 | $3.0B | Series Unknown | 2025-07-07 |
| 30 |
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital strea…
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Seattle | c 10001 max | $24.8B | Post Ipo Debt | 2026-03-11 |
| 31 |
Poolside
Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts …
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San Francisco | 101 - 250 | $626.0M | Series B | 2024-10-02 |
| 32 |
Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict…
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San Francisco | 11 - 50 | $300.0M | Seed | 2025-09-30 |
| 33 |
Reflection AI
We're building frontier open intelligence and making it accessible to all.
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New York | 101 - 250 | $2.1B | Series B | 2025-10-09 |
| 34 |
Sakana AI
Sakana AI is a research-oriented artificial intelligence company that develops b…
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Tokyo | 11 - 50 | $368.1M | Corporate Round | 2026-03-25 |
| 35 |
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system t…
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London | 5K - 10K | — | Series A | 2011-02-01 |
| 36 |
Adept AI
Adept AI is a machine learning research platform that develops AI systems that e…
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San Francisco | 51 - 100 | $415.0M | Series B | 2023-03-14 |
| 37 |
Inflection AI
Inflection AI is a public benefit corporation leveraging its world class LLM to …
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Palo Alto | 51 - 100 | $1.5B | Series Unknown | 2023-06-29 |
| 38 |
Imbue
Imbue is a research lab that trains foundational models to develop AI agents.
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San Francisco | 11 - 50 | $232.0M | Series B | 2023-10-19 |
| 39 |
Aleph Alpha
Aleph Alpha specializes in researching, developing, and implementing AI-based te…
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Heidelberg | 101 - 250 | $533.6M | Secondary Market | 2024-11-20 |
| 40 |
H Company
Paris-based AI startup developing Agentic Foundation models, founded by Charles …
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Paris | 51 - 100 | $220.0M | Convertible Note | 2024-05-07 |
| 41 |
General Intuition
General Intuition is a frontier research lab focused on teaching machines to lea…
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New York | 11 - 50 | $133.7M | Angel | 2026-01-20 |
| 42 |
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and s…
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Beijing | c 10001 max | $9.8B | Secondary Market | 2025-11-20 |
| 43 |
Reka AI
Reka AI is an AI research and product company that develops multimodal AI soluti…
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Sunnyvale | 11 - 50 | $170.0M | Series B | 2025-07-22 |
| 44 |
Contextual AI
Contextual AI specializes in customizable generative AI applications with RAG 2.…
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Mountain View | 51 - 100 | $100.0M | Series A | 2024-08-01 |
| 45 |
Synthesia
Synthesia is an AI video platform that enables users to create videos from text …
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London | 501 - 1K | $536.6M | Series Unknown | 2025-10-29 |
| 46 |
AA-I Technologies
AA-I Technologies is an AI company that develops systems intended to accelerate …
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Ramat Gan | 1 - 10 | $200.0M | Series A | 2025-10-01 |
| 47 |
Hugging Face
Hugging Face allows users to build, train, and deploy art models using the refer…
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Brooklyn | 51 - 100 | $395.2M | Series Unknown | 2024-08-01 |
| 48 |
Baichuan Intelligence
Baichuan Intelligence develops general artificial intelligence services to build…
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Haidian | 101 - 250 | $740.0M | Series A | 2024-07-22 |
| 49 |
Apple
Apple is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer e…
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Cupertino | c 10001 max | $10.7B | Post Ipo Debt | 2025-05-05 |
| 50 |
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Light Years Beyond
Light Years Beyond provides generative AI technologies to companies that enable …
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Beijing | 51 - 100 | $280.0M | Series A | 2023-06-02 |