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48 researched organizations
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28 organizations
General model labs
Organizations developing broad foundation-model families across several capabilities or modalities.
AnthropicAnthropicLanguage models · Coding agents · AI safety93 / 100Open profile →
OpenAIOpenAILanguage models · Coding agents · Multimodal generation93 / 100Open profile →QwenQwenOpen-weight models · Multimodal models · Coding92 / 100Open profile →
DeepSeekDeepSeekReasoning · Coding · Open-weight models91 / 100Open profile →
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMindMultimodal models · Open models · Scientific research90 / 100Open profile →
Moonshot AIMoonshot AILanguage models · Long context · Coding90 / 100Open profile →
Z.aiZ.aiLanguage models · Agents · Coding89 / 100Open profile →NVIDIANVIDIAOpen models · Enterprise AI · Speech88 / 100Open profile →
ByteDance SeedByteDance SeedSeed · Seedream87 / 100Open profile →
MetaMetaOpen-weight models · Language models · Model safety86 / 100Open profile →
Sakana AISakana AIFugu · Sakana86 / 100Open profile →
xAIxAILanguage models · Image and video · Voice84 / 100Open profile →TencentTencentHY · HY3 · Hunyuan83 / 100Open profile →
CohereCohereEnterprise language models · Retrieval · Reranking82 / 100Open profile →
MicrosoftMicrosoftMAI Image · MAI Voice · MAI Transcribe81 / 100Open profile →
Mistral AIMistral AILanguage models · Open-weight models · Speech80 / 100Open profile →
MiniMaxMiniMaxMinimax · Hailuo · Speech79 / 100Open profile →
XiaomiXiaomiMimo75 / 100Open profile →
AmazonAmazonNova74 / 100Open profile →
MeituanMeituanLongcat74 / 100Open profile →
StepFunStepFunStep74 / 100Open profile →
Thinking MachinesThinking MachinesInkling74 / 100Open profile →Liquid AILiquid AILFM73 / 100Open profile →
BaiduBaiduErnie72 / 100Open profile →
IBMIBMGranite70 / 100Open profile →
UpstageUpstageSolar68 / 100Open profile →
InceptionInceptionMercury61 / 100Open profile →
Dots StudioDots StudioDots60 / 100Open profile →
14 organizations
Specialist model labs
Organizations concentrated on a domain such as media, retrieval, speech, coding, or applied generation.
Black Forest LabsBlack Forest LabsFLUX · FLUX Video84 / 100Open profile →
RunwayRunwayAleph · GEN82 / 100Open profile →
PerplexityPerplexitySonar · Pplx79 / 100Open profile →
Voyage AIVoyage AIVoyage · Rerank76 / 100Open profile →
RecraftRecraftRecraft72 / 100Open profile →
WriterWriterPalmyra72 / 100Open profile →KreaKreaKrea70 / 100Open profile →
DeepgramDeepgramAura · FLUX · Nova69 / 100Open profile →
HeygenHeygenAvatar68 / 100Open profile →
Fish AudioFish AudioS2.1 · S1 · S267 / 100Open profile →
SesameSesameCSM65 / 100Open profile →
PerceptronPerceptronPerceptron62 / 100Open profile →
Canopy LabsCanopy LabsOrpheus49 / 100Open profile →
SourcefulSourcefulRiverflow48 / 100Open profile →
2 organizations
Research organizations and projects
Institutes and durable research projects whose influence is not primarily a commercial model catalog.
3 organizations
Platforms and infrastructure
Routers, inference services, and corporate ecosystems that distribute or organize models from multiple sources.
1 organization
Community publishers
Independent and often pseudonymous publishers whose releases are best judged within the community-model ecosystem.