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The All Things AI 100
One hundred AI companies that matter to business right now, chosen by us.
100 companies in 12 groups · Updated September 19, 2026 · Not a ranking
What this list is
The AI companies we would want in the room at All Things AI: the labs, the chip makers, the clouds, the tools people use every day, and the companies putting AI into medicine, robots, and security. We built the list for business readers, not investors, so it favors companies whose products you can buy and use today.
How we chose
This is not a ranking. Companies are grouped by what they do and listed alphabetically inside each group. We chose them ourselves, with no pay-to-play and no sponsor influence. Every entry cites its sources. North Carolina gets its own group because it is where we live and because these companies rarely make the coastal lists.
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12 categories
Frontier labs
The companies training the largest models.
Chips, compute, and AI clouds
The silicon and the data centers everything else runs on.
Model platforms and developer tools
Where models are hosted, served, and turned into applications.
Data and infrastructure
Databases, data pipelines, and the plumbing under AI applications.
Coding and app building
Tools that write software, for developers and for people who never learned to code.
Enterprise software
The systems of record adding AI to what companies already run.
Productivity and creation
The AI tools people open every day at work.
Image, video, voice, and music
Generative media companies.
Vertical AI and science
AI built for one field: law, medicine, drug discovery, finance.
Robotics and physical AI
AI that drives, walks, and lifts.
Security
Securing AI, and using AI to secure everything else.
North Carolina
AI companies headquartered or anchored in North Carolina.
The list
All 100, as a table
Click a heading to sort. Industry is the group we placed them in. This is an editors’ list, not a ranking.
1X Technologies Makes NEO, a $20,000 home humanoid robot, with production in Hayward, California. | Robotics and physical AI | Palo Alto, CA | 2014 |
Abnormal AI Behavioral AI email and account security that detects attacks by modeling normal user behavior. | Security | San Francisco, CA | 2018 |
Abridge Ambient AI that turns clinician-patient conversations into clinical notes inside the EHR. | Vertical AI and science | Pittsburgh, PA | 2018 |
Adobe Creative, document and marketing software maker; Firefly models and agents run across its apps. | Enterprise software | San Jose, CA | 1982 |
Advanced Micro Devices Designs CPUs and Instinct GPUs for AI data centers, with the ROCm open software stack. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | Santa Clara, CA | 1969 |
Amazon (AWS) Cloud provider offering the Bedrock model service, AgentCore for running agents, Nova models, and Alexa+. | Frontier labs | Seattle, WA | 1994 |
Anthropic Develops the Claude model family, the Claude Code coding agent, and APIs for building AI agents. | Frontier labs | San Francisco, CA | 2021 |
Applied Intuition Sells simulation, tooling and Vehicle OS software for autonomous cars, trucks, off-road machines and defense. | Robotics and physical AI | Sunnyvale, CA | 2017 |
Baseten Inference platform for deploying and scaling custom and open models across many clouds. | Model platforms and developer tools | San Francisco, CA | 2019 |
Black Forest Labs Developer of the FLUX family of image generation models licensed to software and social media companies. | Image, video, voice, and music | Freiburg, Germany | 2024 |
Boston Dynamics Robotics maker of Spot, Stretch and the electric Atlas humanoid, now moving Atlas into factory production. | Robotics and physical AI | Waltham, MA | 1992 |
Broadcom Designs custom AI accelerators (XPUs) and Ethernet networking chips for hyperscale data centers. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | Palo Alto, CA | 1991 |
C3 AI Sells prebuilt enterprise AI applications and a platform for building agentic AI systems. | Enterprise software | Redwood City, CA | 2009 |
Canva Browser-based design platform with AI generation tools and the Affinity professional design suite. | Productivity and creation | Sydney, Australia | 2012 |
Cerebras Systems Builds wafer-scale AI processors and sells training and inference compute on them. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | Sunnyvale, CA | 2015 |
Cisco Networking, security and collaboration vendor supplying AI data center switching, silicon and AI security. | North Carolina | San Jose, CA | 1984 |
Cloudflare Global network and developer platform offering serverless inference, an agents SDK and AI crawler controls. | Data and infrastructure | San Francisco, CA | 2009 |
Cognition Builds Devin, an autonomous software engineering agent, and owns the Windsurf AI code editor. | Coding and app building | San Francisco, CA | 2023 |
Confluent Data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that feeds real-time data to applications and AI agents. | Data and infrastructure | Mountain View, CA | 2014 |
CoreWeave GPU cloud provider renting Nvidia capacity to AI labs and enterprises; owns Weights & Biases. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | Livingston, NJ | 2017 |
CrowdStrike Cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform (Falcon) for endpoint, cloud, identity and SIEM protection. | Security | Austin, TX | 2011 |
Crusoe Develops and operates large AI data centers and a GPU cloud, including OpenAI's Stargate site in Abilene. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | Denver, CO | 2018 |
Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.) Maker of the Cursor AI code editor and background coding agents, now owned by SpaceX. | Coding and app building | San Francisco, CA | 2022 |
Databricks Data and AI platform combining a lakehouse, Unity Catalog governance and tools for building agents. | Model platforms and developer tools | San Francisco, CA | 2013 |
Descript Video and podcast editor that lets users edit media by editing the transcript, with an AI co-editor. | Productivity and creation | San Francisco, CA | 2017 |
ElevenLabs Voice AI company offering text to speech, dubbing and a platform for deploying conversational voice agents | Image, video, voice, and music | New York, NY | 2022 |
EvenUp AI software that drafts demand letters and manages case work for personal injury law firms | Vertical AI and science | San Francisco, CA | 2019 |
Figma Collaborative design platform; Figma Make turns prompts and designs into working prototypes and apps. | Productivity and creation | San Francisco, CA | 2012 |
Figure AI Develops general-purpose humanoid robots (Figure 03) and the Helix vision-language-action model. | Robotics and physical AI | San Jose, CA | 2022 |
Fireworks AI Inference platform for running and fine-tuning open and custom models at production scale. | Model platforms and developer tools | Redwood City, CA | 2022 |
Gamma AI tool that generates presentations, documents and websites from text prompts. | Productivity and creation | San Francisco, CA | 2020 |
GitHub Code hosting platform whose Copilot line includes a coding agent and Agent HQ for running third-party agents. | Coding and app building | San Francisco, CA | 2008 |
Glean Enterprise search and AI assistant that connects company data and runs permission-aware agents. | Productivity and creation | Palo Alto, CA | 2019 |
Google (Alphabet) Runs Gemini models, Google Cloud AI infrastructure, and the Gemini Enterprise agent platform. | Frontier labs | Mountain View, CA | 1998 |
Groq Runs GroqCloud, an inference service built on its LPU chips designed for fast token generation. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | Mountain View, CA | 2016 |
Harvey AI platform for law firms and corporate legal teams: research, drafting, review and agent workflows. | Vertical AI and science | San Francisco, CA | 2022 |
Hebbia AI platform, Matrix, that runs multi-step document analysis for finance and legal teams. | Vertical AI and science | New York, NY | 2020 |
HeyGen AI video platform that creates avatar and translated videos for sales, training and localization. | Productivity and creation | Los Angeles, CA | 2020 |
Hippocratic AI Patient-facing AI voice agents for scheduling, intake, chronic care check-ins and post-discharge calls. | Vertical AI and science | Palo Alto, CA | 2023 |
Hugging Face Hosting platform and community for sharing open models, datasets and AI apps. | Model platforms and developer tools | New York, NY | 2016 |
IBM Hybrid cloud, consulting and watsonx AI software, including Granite models and Orchestrate agents. | Enterprise software | Armonk, NY | 1911 |
Insilico Medicine Generative AI drug discovery company (Pharma.AI) with a clinical pipeline led by the IPF drug rentosertib. | Vertical AI and science | Cambridge, MA | 2014 |
Isomorphic Labs Alphabet's drug design company using AlphaFold-derived AI models to discover small-molecule medicines. | Vertical AI and science | London, UK | 2021 |
Jasper AI platform for marketing teams that generates on-brand content and runs marketing agents and workflows. | Productivity and creation | Austin, TX | 2021 |
Lambda GPU cloud and on-premises AI hardware provider serving developers and hyperscalers. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | San Jose, CA | 2012 |
LangChain Open source agent framework plus LangGraph orchestration and LangSmith observability tools | Model platforms and developer tools | San Francisco, CA | 2022 |
Lenovo Group World's largest PC maker; sells AI PCs, servers and services under a Hybrid AI strategy. | North Carolina | Morrisville, NC | 1984 |
Lovable Swedish platform that turns text prompts into working web apps, aimed at non-engineers and small teams. | Coding and app building | Stockholm, Sweden | 2023 |
Luma AI Builds the Ray video models and the Dream Machine app for generating video, images and 3D content. | Image, video, voice, and music | Palo Alto, CA | 2021 |
Meta Platforms Builds Llama and Muse models and the Meta AI assistant, and runs Meta Superintelligence Labs. | Frontier labs | Menlo Park, CA | 2004 |
Microsoft Sells Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio for building agents, and the Microsoft Foundry AI platform. | Frontier labs | Redmond, WA | 1975 |
Midjourney Independent research lab offering subscription image generation and short video generation. | Image, video, voice, and music | San Francisco, CA | 2021 |
Mistral AI French developer of open weight and commercial language models, the Le Chat assistant, and an agents API. | Frontier labs | Paris, France | 2023 |
Modal Serverless GPU and CPU cloud for running AI inference, training, batch jobs and agent sandboxes | Model platforms and developer tools | New York, NY | 2021 |
MongoDB Document database company; Atlas cloud service adds vector search and Voyage AI embedding models. | Data and infrastructure | New York, NY | 2007 |
Neo4j Graph database and analytics platform; its GraphRAG approach links LLMs to connected enterprise data. | Data and infrastructure | San Mateo, CA | 2007 |
Noma Security Security platform that discovers, tests and protects enterprise AI agents and models at runtime. | Security | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2023 |
Notion Connected workspace for docs, wikis and projects with built-in AI agents that work across tools. | Productivity and creation | San Francisco, CA | 2013 |
NVIDIA Designs the GPUs and networking that train and run AI, plus NIM microservices, NeMo, and agent blueprints. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | Santa Clara, CA | 1993 |
OPAQUE Systems Confidential AI platform that runs AI on sensitive data with hardware-enforced policy and audit proof. | Security | San Francisco, CA | 2021 |
OpenAI Builds the GPT models, ChatGPT, and developer APIs and agent tools such as Codex and the Agents SDK. | Frontier labs | San Francisco, CA | 2015 |
Oracle Database, Fusion cloud applications and OCI infrastructure, now a major supplier of AI compute. | Enterprise software | Austin, TX | 1977 |
Palantir Data integration and AI platforms (Foundry, Gotham, AIP) for governments and large companies. | Enterprise software | Denver, CO | 2003 |
Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity platform company spanning network, cloud, security operations, AI security and identity. | Security | Santa Clara, CA | 2005 |
Pendo Product analytics and in-app guidance software, now including analytics for AI agents. | North Carolina | Raleigh, NC | 2013 |
Perplexity AI answer engine, the Comet browser and the Perplexity Computer agent for search and task automation | Productivity and creation | San Francisco, CA | 2022 |
Physical Intelligence Builds general-purpose robot foundation models (pi-zero through pi-0.7) that run across many robot types. | Robotics and physical AI | San Francisco, CA | 2024 |
Pika Consumer-focused AI video generator with a mobile app aimed at short-form social content. | Image, video, voice, and music | Palo Alto, CA | 2023 |
Pinecone Managed vector database used to store and search embeddings for retrieval-augmented AI applications. | Data and infrastructure | New York, NY | 2019 |
Pryon Enterprise retrieval and knowledge platform grounding AI assistants and agents in company documents. | North Carolina | Raleigh, NC | 2017 |
Recursion Pharmaceuticals Clinical-stage biotech using automated labs and AI (Recursion OS) to discover and develop drugs. | Vertical AI and science | Salt Lake City, UT | 2013 |
Red Hat Enterprise open source software: RHEL, OpenShift and the Red Hat AI platform for running models and agents. | North Carolina | Raleigh, NC | 1993 |
Replicate API platform for running open models; being folded into Cloudflare Workers AI. | Model platforms and developer tools | San Francisco, CA | 2019 |
Replit Browser-based development platform whose Replit Agent builds and deploys apps from natural language. | Coding and app building | Foster City, CA | 2016 |
Rogo AI research, modeling and deal-workflow software for investment banks and private equity firms | Vertical AI and science | New York, NY | 2021 |
Runway AI research company building video generation and world models used in film, advertising and media. | Image, video, voice, and music | New York, NY | 2018 |
Salesforce CRM software vendor whose Agentforce platform builds and runs AI agents for sales, service, and operations. | Enterprise software | San Francisco, CA | 1999 |
SAP The largest ERP vendor; its Joule assistant and agents run inside finance, supply chain and HR apps. | Enterprise software | Walldorf, Germany | 1972 |
SAS Institute Analytics and AI software maker; SAS Viya platform for data management, modeling, decisioning and agents. | North Carolina | Cary, NC | 1976 |
Scale AI Supplies training data, evaluation and deployment services for AI models to labs, enterprises and governments. | Data and infrastructure | San Francisco, CA | 2016 |
ServiceNow Cloud platform for IT, HR and customer workflows, now sold with built-in AI agents. | Enterprise software | Santa Clara, CA | 2004 |
Skild AI Develops the Skild Brain, a general-purpose AI model licensed to control many kinds of robots. | Robotics and physical AI | Pittsburgh, PA | 2023 |
Snowflake Cloud data platform with Cortex AI services and Snowflake Intelligence for plain-language data queries. | Model platforms and developer tools | Bozeman, MT | 2012 |
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) Develops the Grok model family and chatbot, now operated as the AI division of SpaceX. | Frontier labs | Palo Alto, CA | 2023 |
Stability AI Builds generative image, video, audio and 3D models (Stable Diffusion) and tools for creative production. | Image, video, voice, and music | London, UK | 2019 |
Suno AI music generator that creates full songs with vocals from text prompts. | Image, video, voice, and music | Cambridge, MA | 2022 |
Supabase Hosted Postgres backend with auth, storage and vector support, widely used by AI coding tools. | Data and infrastructure | San Francisco, CA | 2020 |
Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) Productivity company behind Grammarly, Coda and Superhuman Mail, plus the Superhuman Go AI assistant. | Productivity and creation | San Francisco, CA | 2009 |
Synthesia Platform for making corporate training and communications videos with AI avatars and voices. | Productivity and creation | London, United Kingdom | 2017 |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Contract chip manufacturer producing nearly all advanced-node AI processors for Nvidia, AMD and others. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | Hsinchu, Taiwan | 1987 |
Tempus AI Runs genomic tests and licenses de-identified clinical data and AI models for oncology and other diseases. | Vertical AI and science | Chicago, IL | 2015 |
Tesla Makes electric vehicles and energy storage; developing FSD software, a Robotaxi service and Optimus robots. | Robotics and physical AI | Austin, TX | 2003 |
Together AI Cloud for running, fine-tuning and training open models on Nvidia GPUs, via API or dedicated clusters. | Chips, compute, and AI clouds | San Francisco, CA | 2022 |
UiPath Automation platform that orchestrates software robots, AI agents and people across business processes. | Enterprise software | New York, NY | 2005 |
Vercel Cloud platform for web apps; maintains Next.js, the AI SDK, and v0, a prompt-to-app builder. | Coding and app building | San Francisco, CA | 2015 |
Waymo Operates commercial driverless robotaxi services in US cities using its Waymo Driver system. | Robotics and physical AI | Mountain View, CA | 2009 |
Weaviate Open source vector database and hosted cloud for semantic search, RAG and agent memory. | Data and infrastructure | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2019 |
Wiz Cloud security platform that scans cloud and AI environments for risks across all major providers. | Security | New York, NY | 2020 |
Workday Cloud finance and HR software for large employers, now sold with a fleet of built-in AI agents. | Enterprise software | Pleasanton, CA | 2005 |
Writer Enterprise generative AI platform with its own Palmyra models for building and supervising agents. | Productivity and creation | San Francisco, CA | 2020 |