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OpenAI is the US AI lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family.

Anthropic is the US AI safety lab behind the Claude family of models.

Google (with Google DeepMind) builds the Gemini family of AI models.

xAI is Elon Musk's AI lab behind the Grok models.

Nvidia designs the GPUs that train and run frontier AI models.

Meta builds the open-weight Llama models and is one of the largest buyers of AI compute.

Apple builds Apple Intelligence and Siri — its on-device and cloud AI across iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Mistral AI is the Paris-based lab behind Europe's leading open-weight models, including Mistral, Codestral and Voxtral.

Alibaba's Qwen team builds the Qwen models — the most-downloaded open-weight AI family in the world.

DeepSeek is the Chinese lab whose low-cost, open-weight models rival far more expensive frontier systems.

MiniMax is a Shanghai AI lab known for long-context, open-weight models such as the MiniMax M series.

AMD builds the Instinct accelerators that give frontier labs an alternative to Nvidia.

IBM sells enterprise AI deployment and consulting, and partners with frontier labs to put their models inside regulated businesses.

Moonshot AI is the Chinese lab behind the open-weight Kimi family of long-context, agentic coding models.

Sesame is a US startup building natural-sounding conversational voice AI, including its open Conversational Speech Model (CSM).

Decart is an AI lab building real-time interactive world models for physical AI, robotics and simulation.

GitHub, owned by Microsoft, makes Copilot — the most widely used AI coding assistant.