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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

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.

The All Things AI 100, sortable by company, industry, headquarters, and year founded.
1X Technologies

Makes NEO, a $20,000 home humanoid robot, with production in Hayward, California.

Robotics and physical AI
Abnormal AI

Behavioral AI email and account security that detects attacks by modeling normal user behavior.

Security
Abridge

Ambient AI that turns clinician-patient conversations into clinical notes inside the EHR.

Vertical AI and science
Adobe

Creative, document and marketing software maker; Firefly models and agents run across its apps.

Enterprise software
Advanced Micro Devices

Designs CPUs and Instinct GPUs for AI data centers, with the ROCm open software stack.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
Amazon (AWS)

Cloud provider offering the Bedrock model service, AgentCore for running agents, Nova models, and Alexa+.

Frontier labs
Anthropic

Develops the Claude model family, the Claude Code coding agent, and APIs for building AI agents.

Frontier labs
Applied Intuition

Sells simulation, tooling and Vehicle OS software for autonomous cars, trucks, off-road machines and defense.

Robotics and physical AI
Baseten

Inference platform for deploying and scaling custom and open models across many clouds.

Model platforms and developer tools
Black Forest Labs

Developer of the FLUX family of image generation models licensed to software and social media companies.

Image, video, voice, and music
Boston Dynamics

Robotics maker of Spot, Stretch and the electric Atlas humanoid, now moving Atlas into factory production.

Robotics and physical AI
Broadcom

Designs custom AI accelerators (XPUs) and Ethernet networking chips for hyperscale data centers.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
C3 AI

Sells prebuilt enterprise AI applications and a platform for building agentic AI systems.

Enterprise software
Canva

Browser-based design platform with AI generation tools and the Affinity professional design suite.

Productivity and creation
Cerebras Systems

Builds wafer-scale AI processors and sells training and inference compute on them.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
Cisco

Networking, security and collaboration vendor supplying AI data center switching, silicon and AI security.

North Carolina
Cloudflare

Global network and developer platform offering serverless inference, an agents SDK and AI crawler controls.

Data and infrastructure
Cognition

Builds Devin, an autonomous software engineering agent, and owns the Windsurf AI code editor.

Coding and app building
Confluent

Data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that feeds real-time data to applications and AI agents.

Data and infrastructure
CoreWeave

GPU cloud provider renting Nvidia capacity to AI labs and enterprises; owns Weights & Biases.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
CrowdStrike

Cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform (Falcon) for endpoint, cloud, identity and SIEM protection.

Security
Crusoe

Develops and operates large AI data centers and a GPU cloud, including OpenAI's Stargate site in Abilene.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.)

Maker of the Cursor AI code editor and background coding agents, now owned by SpaceX.

Coding and app building
Databricks

Data and AI platform combining a lakehouse, Unity Catalog governance and tools for building agents.

Model platforms and developer tools
Descript

Video and podcast editor that lets users edit media by editing the transcript, with an AI co-editor.

Productivity and creation
ElevenLabs

Voice AI company offering text to speech, dubbing and a platform for deploying conversational voice agents

Image, video, voice, and music
EvenUp

AI software that drafts demand letters and manages case work for personal injury law firms

Vertical AI and science
Figma

Collaborative design platform; Figma Make turns prompts and designs into working prototypes and apps.

Productivity and creation
Figure AI

Develops general-purpose humanoid robots (Figure 03) and the Helix vision-language-action model.

Robotics and physical AI
Fireworks AI

Inference platform for running and fine-tuning open and custom models at production scale.

Model platforms and developer tools
Gamma

AI tool that generates presentations, documents and websites from text prompts.

Productivity and creation
GitHub

Code hosting platform whose Copilot line includes a coding agent and Agent HQ for running third-party agents.

Coding and app building
Glean

Enterprise search and AI assistant that connects company data and runs permission-aware agents.

Productivity and creation
Google (Alphabet)

Runs Gemini models, Google Cloud AI infrastructure, and the Gemini Enterprise agent platform.

Frontier labs
Groq

Runs GroqCloud, an inference service built on its LPU chips designed for fast token generation.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
Harvey

AI platform for law firms and corporate legal teams: research, drafting, review and agent workflows.

Vertical AI and science
Hebbia

AI platform, Matrix, that runs multi-step document analysis for finance and legal teams.

Vertical AI and science
HeyGen

AI video platform that creates avatar and translated videos for sales, training and localization.

Productivity and creation
Hippocratic AI

Patient-facing AI voice agents for scheduling, intake, chronic care check-ins and post-discharge calls.

Vertical AI and science
Hugging Face

Hosting platform and community for sharing open models, datasets and AI apps.

Model platforms and developer tools
IBM

Hybrid cloud, consulting and watsonx AI software, including Granite models and Orchestrate agents.

Enterprise software
Insilico Medicine

Generative AI drug discovery company (Pharma.AI) with a clinical pipeline led by the IPF drug rentosertib.

Vertical AI and science
Isomorphic Labs

Alphabet's drug design company using AlphaFold-derived AI models to discover small-molecule medicines.

Vertical AI and science
Jasper

AI platform for marketing teams that generates on-brand content and runs marketing agents and workflows.

Productivity and creation
Lambda

GPU cloud and on-premises AI hardware provider serving developers and hyperscalers.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
LangChain

Open source agent framework plus LangGraph orchestration and LangSmith observability tools

Model platforms and developer tools
Lenovo Group

World's largest PC maker; sells AI PCs, servers and services under a Hybrid AI strategy.

North Carolina
Lovable

Swedish platform that turns text prompts into working web apps, aimed at non-engineers and small teams.

Coding and app building
Luma AI

Builds the Ray video models and the Dream Machine app for generating video, images and 3D content.

Image, video, voice, and music
Meta Platforms

Builds Llama and Muse models and the Meta AI assistant, and runs Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Frontier labs
Microsoft

Sells Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio for building agents, and the Microsoft Foundry AI platform.

Frontier labs
Midjourney

Independent research lab offering subscription image generation and short video generation.

Image, video, voice, and music
Mistral AI

French developer of open weight and commercial language models, the Le Chat assistant, and an agents API.

Frontier labs
Modal

Serverless GPU and CPU cloud for running AI inference, training, batch jobs and agent sandboxes

Model platforms and developer tools
MongoDB

Document database company; Atlas cloud service adds vector search and Voyage AI embedding models.

Data and infrastructure
Neo4j

Graph database and analytics platform; its GraphRAG approach links LLMs to connected enterprise data.

Data and infrastructure
Noma Security

Security platform that discovers, tests and protects enterprise AI agents and models at runtime.

Security
Notion

Connected workspace for docs, wikis and projects with built-in AI agents that work across tools.

Productivity and creation
NVIDIA

Designs the GPUs and networking that train and run AI, plus NIM microservices, NeMo, and agent blueprints.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
OPAQUE Systems

Confidential AI platform that runs AI on sensitive data with hardware-enforced policy and audit proof.

Security
OpenAI

Builds the GPT models, ChatGPT, and developer APIs and agent tools such as Codex and the Agents SDK.

Frontier labs
Oracle

Database, Fusion cloud applications and OCI infrastructure, now a major supplier of AI compute.

Enterprise software
Palantir

Data integration and AI platforms (Foundry, Gotham, AIP) for governments and large companies.

Enterprise software
Palo Alto Networks

Cybersecurity platform company spanning network, cloud, security operations, AI security and identity.

Security
Pendo

Product analytics and in-app guidance software, now including analytics for AI agents.

North Carolina
Perplexity

AI answer engine, the Comet browser and the Perplexity Computer agent for search and task automation

Productivity and creation
Physical Intelligence

Builds general-purpose robot foundation models (pi-zero through pi-0.7) that run across many robot types.

Robotics and physical AI
Pika

Consumer-focused AI video generator with a mobile app aimed at short-form social content.

Image, video, voice, and music
Pinecone

Managed vector database used to store and search embeddings for retrieval-augmented AI applications.

Data and infrastructure
Pryon

Enterprise retrieval and knowledge platform grounding AI assistants and agents in company documents.

North Carolina
Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Clinical-stage biotech using automated labs and AI (Recursion OS) to discover and develop drugs.

Vertical AI and science
Red Hat

Enterprise open source software: RHEL, OpenShift and the Red Hat AI platform for running models and agents.

North Carolina
Replicate

API platform for running open models; being folded into Cloudflare Workers AI.

Model platforms and developer tools
Replit

Browser-based development platform whose Replit Agent builds and deploys apps from natural language.

Coding and app building
Rogo

AI research, modeling and deal-workflow software for investment banks and private equity firms

Vertical AI and science
Runway

AI research company building video generation and world models used in film, advertising and media.

Image, video, voice, and music
Salesforce

CRM software vendor whose Agentforce platform builds and runs AI agents for sales, service, and operations.

Enterprise software
SAP

The largest ERP vendor; its Joule assistant and agents run inside finance, supply chain and HR apps.

Enterprise software
SAS Institute

Analytics and AI software maker; SAS Viya platform for data management, modeling, decisioning and agents.

North Carolina
Scale AI

Supplies training data, evaluation and deployment services for AI models to labs, enterprises and governments.

Data and infrastructure
ServiceNow

Cloud platform for IT, HR and customer workflows, now sold with built-in AI agents.

Enterprise software
Skild AI

Develops the Skild Brain, a general-purpose AI model licensed to control many kinds of robots.

Robotics and physical AI
Snowflake

Cloud data platform with Cortex AI services and Snowflake Intelligence for plain-language data queries.

Model platforms and developer tools
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)

Develops the Grok model family and chatbot, now operated as the AI division of SpaceX.

Frontier labs
Stability AI

Builds generative image, video, audio and 3D models (Stable Diffusion) and tools for creative production.

Image, video, voice, and music
Suno

AI music generator that creates full songs with vocals from text prompts.

Image, video, voice, and music
Supabase

Hosted Postgres backend with auth, storage and vector support, widely used by AI coding tools.

Data and infrastructure
Superhuman (formerly Grammarly)

Productivity company behind Grammarly, Coda and Superhuman Mail, plus the Superhuman Go AI assistant.

Productivity and creation
Synthesia

Platform for making corporate training and communications videos with AI avatars and voices.

Productivity and creation
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Contract chip manufacturer producing nearly all advanced-node AI processors for Nvidia, AMD and others.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
Tempus AI

Runs genomic tests and licenses de-identified clinical data and AI models for oncology and other diseases.

Vertical AI and science
Tesla

Makes electric vehicles and energy storage; developing FSD software, a Robotaxi service and Optimus robots.

Robotics and physical AI
Together AI

Cloud for running, fine-tuning and training open models on Nvidia GPUs, via API or dedicated clusters.

Chips, compute, and AI clouds
UiPath

Automation platform that orchestrates software robots, AI agents and people across business processes.

Enterprise software
Vercel

Cloud platform for web apps; maintains Next.js, the AI SDK, and v0, a prompt-to-app builder.

Coding and app building
Waymo

Operates commercial driverless robotaxi services in US cities using its Waymo Driver system.

Robotics and physical AI
Weaviate

Open source vector database and hosted cloud for semantic search, RAG and agent memory.

Data and infrastructure
Wiz

Cloud security platform that scans cloud and AI environments for risks across all major providers.

Security
Workday

Cloud finance and HR software for large employers, now sold with a fleet of built-in AI agents.

Enterprise software
Writer

Enterprise generative AI platform with its own Palmyra models for building and supervising agents.

Productivity and creation