VIBERS

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Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs develops scientific AI alongside autonomous physical laboratories, including the Neon model announced in September 2026.

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Voyage AI

Voyage AI publishes Voyage, and Rerank. Explore its model lines, releases, and available benchmark evidence.

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Sourceful

Sourceful publishes Riverflow. Explore its model lines, releases, and available benchmark evidence.

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Perplexity

Perplexity publishes Pplx, and Sonar. Explore its model lines, releases, and available benchmark evidence.

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek develops language, reasoning, coding, and multimodal models, including its V-series and R-series releases.

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Nous Research

Nous Research publishes Hermes. Explore its model lines, releases, and available benchmark evidence.

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ByteDance Seed

ByteDance Seed publishes Seed, and Seedream. Explore its model lines, releases, and available benchmark evidence.

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xAI

xAI publishes Grok language, image, video, speech, and developer-focused model lines.

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TypeSafe AI

TypeSafe AI develops System One models for fast structured decisions, beginning with the early-access Jev API.

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ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs builds voice AI models for text-to-speech and speech-to-text, including the Eleven speech and Scribe transcription families.

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Ineffable Intelligence

Ineffable Intelligence researches reinforcement-learning systems that acquire knowledge through experience.

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Ricursive Intelligence

Ricursive Intelligence develops AI for chip design, aiming to accelerate the hardware that supports future AI systems.

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AMI Labs

AMI Labs develops world models intended to support memory, reasoning, and planning from real-world sensor data.

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Mistral AI

Mistral AI publishes language, coding, embedding, and speech models across Mistral, Ministral, Codestral, Mixtral, and Voxtral lines.

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Safe Superintelligence

Safe Superintelligence concentrates on developing capability and safety together, with safe superintelligence as its stated product goal.

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Google

Google is an American technology company founded in 1998 by Stanford PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, whose PageRank algorithm and mission to organize the world's information made it one of the most influential companies in computing history. Now a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. under CEO Sundar Pichai, it runs the world's dominant search engine alongside Android, YouTube, and Gmail, and is a major force in AI research, cloud computing, and open-source developer tooling.

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GitHub

GitHub is a software development platform founded in 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, and Scott Chacon, built around Git to give developers a shared home for code hosting, review, and open-source collaboration. Acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018, it now serves over 150 million registered developers across more than 420 million repositories, and has expanded into AI-assisted development with GitHub Copilot.

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Vercel

Vercel Labs is the experimental GitHub organization of Vercel Inc., the San Francisco developer-platform company founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015. Vercel created Next.js — the widely adopted open-source React framework — and the Vercel AI SDK, and uses Labs as a public sandbox for prototypes and demos that push the frontier of its platform before features graduate to the main product.

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LangChain

LangChain is an AI infrastructure company that builds tools for developing applications powered by large language models. Founded in 2022 by Harrison Chase as an open-source Python framework, the company has since launched LangGraph for agent orchestration and LangSmith for AI observability. It has grown into one of the most widely adopted open-source AI frameworks and was valued at roughly $1.25 billion following a 2025 funding round.

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Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure company founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick Collison and John Collison, who had previously sold their first startup as teenagers before conceiving of a developer-first payments platform they believed "should have already existed." Headquartered in San Francisco, it grew into the world's largest private fintech company by valuation, processing over $1.9 trillion in payment volume in 2025 and serving businesses in more than 160 countries.

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cursor

Cursor is an AI-powered code editor and coding agent built by Anysphere, a San Francisco software company incorporated in 2022 by four MIT students: Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger. The product lets developers edit code, search codebases, and run tasks via natural-language instructions, and it grew rapidly to billions of dollars in annual recurring revenue and valuation. In June 2026, SpaceX announced an agreement to acquire Cursor for roughly $60 billion in stock, placing it under SpaceXAI.

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Cognition

Cognition (also known as Cognition AI or Cognition Labs) is an applied AI lab based in San Francisco, founded in November 2023 by Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan, three competitive programmers who between them had won multiple International Olympiad in Informatics gold medals. The company is best known for Devin, marketed as the first AI software engineer capable of autonomously planning and executing coding tasks. Cognition has since raised hundreds of millions of dollars at a multi-billion-dollar valuation.

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Hugging Face

Hugging Face is an American machine learning company, founded in 2016 in New York City by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf. It began as a teen-focused chatbot app before pivoting to become a widely used open-source platform and community for sharing machine learning models, datasets, and tools, including its popular Transformers library. It is often described as functioning like a "GitHub of machine learning" for researchers, data scientists, and engineers.

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World Labs

World Labs is a spatial intelligence company building AI systems that perceive, generate, and let people interact with three-dimensional environments. It was founded in 2024 by Stanford professor and AI researcher Fei-Fei Li together with Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, and Christoph Lassner, leaders in computer vision and graphics research. The company has raised roughly $1.23 billion and released Marble, a tool for generating persistent, explorable 3D worlds, followed by the Atlas model for creating detailed simulated environments from a single image.

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Modal

Modal (Modal Labs, Inc.) is an American cloud computing company founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson (formerly of Spotify and Better.com) and Akshat Bubna. It operates a serverless infrastructure platform built for AI, machine learning, and data-processing workloads, letting Python developers deploy and scale compute — including GPU-backed inference, training, and batch jobs — without managing servers or container orchestration directly. The company has raised significant venture funding, including a 2026 round that valued it at $4.65 billion.

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Scale AI

Scale AI provides data infrastructure, evaluation and AI applications for organizations building and using AI.

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Bytedance Inc.

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Notion

Notion Labs, Inc. is a San Francisco-based productivity software company founded in 2013 by Ivan Zhao and Simon Last. It develops Notion, an all-in-one workspace platform combining documents, databases, wikis, and project management tools, used by over 100 million people worldwide. Backed by investors including Sequoia Capital and Coatue Management, the company reached a $10 billion valuation in 2021. The makenotion GitHub organization serves as Notion's official open-source and developer hub, publishing its public APIs and SDKs.

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SemiAnalysis

SemiAnalysis is an independent research and analysis publication covering the semiconductor and AI industries, from chip design and fabrication to datacenters and AI infrastructure. Founded by Dylan Patel, it grew from a solo newsletter into a research firm with institutional consulting and custom modeling services for semiconductor companies and investors. Its reporting is widely followed in the chip industry, drawing public acknowledgment from figures like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, and its newsletter counts hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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Figma

Figma is a San Francisco-based software company that builds a browser-based, collaborative interface design platform, letting teams design, prototype, and give feedback together in real time. It was founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, who met at Brown University. In 2022 Adobe agreed to acquire Figma for roughly $20 billion, but the deal was abandoned in December 2023 amid antitrust scrutiny; Figma went public on the NYSE under ticker FIG in July 2025.

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Uber

Uber Technologies is an American multinational transportation company founded in March 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, headquartered in San Francisco, offering ride-hailing, food delivery, freight, and courier services in roughly 70 countries. Its Uber Open Source GitHub organization shares internal engineering tools and frameworks, such as the H3 geospatial indexing library and the RIBs mobile architecture framework, with the broader developer community.

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Reka

Reka develops multimodal AI models and products that work with video, images, text and audio. Its GitHub organization hosts model benchmarks, SDKs and API examples.

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Reka

Reka is an AI research and product company that builds natively multimodal large language models able to process text, images, video, and audio together. It was founded in 2022 by CEO Dani Yogatama, chief scientist Yi Tay, and colleagues from Google DeepMind, Google Brain, Meta FAIR, and Baidu. The company's flagship model, Reka Core, helped it reach a reported $1 billion valuation on a $110 million round led by Nvidia and Snowflake.

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Netlify

Netlify is a San Francisco-based cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications, founded in 2014 by Mathias Biilmann and Christian Bach. It popularized Git-based deployment workflows paired with static-site generation and serverless functions, and helped drive adoption of the Jamstack architecture across the web development industry. The company is venture-backed, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Kleiner Perkins, and serves millions of developers and thousands of enterprises.

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Every

Every is a media and software company founded in 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez, formed by merging the two founders' individual business newsletters into a single paid publication. Shipper serves as CEO; over time the company grew into what he calls a 'multi-modal media company,' publishing a daily newsletter, essays, and podcasts for an audience of professionals building with AI, alongside an in-house product studio and AI consulting practice. Baschez, the other cofounder, was previously the first employee at Substack and a co-creator of Product Hunt.

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Ping.gg

Ping (Ping Labs) is a developer-tools startup founded in 2021 by Theo Browne and Mark Florkowski, alumni of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch. Browne, a former Twitch software engineer and creator of the T3 Stack, leads the company alongside CTO Florkowski, a former Retool support engineer. Under the ping.gg GitHub org the team builds developer- and creator-facing tools, and the company is best known for T3 Chat, a fast multi-model AI chat app it launched in 2025.

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Docker

Docker, Inc. is an American technology company that develops the Docker container platform, which automates software deployment through OS-level virtualization. It was founded in Paris in 2008 by Solomon Hykes, Sebastien Pahl, and Kamel Founadi as dotCloud, incorporated in the U.S. in 2010, and rebranded to Docker in 2013; it is now headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Its flagship products include Docker Engine, Docker Hub, and Docker Desktop, and the company is a major contributor to open-source container tooling such as containerd and runc.

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a personal knowledge management and note-taking application built by co-founders Shida Li and Erica Xu, who met at the University of Waterloo and launched the app in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It stores notes as local Markdown files in a user-owned vault rather than a proprietary cloud format, an approach the company markets as durable and free of vendor lock-in. Obsidian is self-funded by user revenue rather than venture capital, and by 2023 had grown to roughly a million users with an active third-party plugin ecosystem.

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Slack

Slack is a cloud-based workplace messaging and collaboration platform built around organized channels, direct messaging, and third-party app integrations. It grew out of an internal communication tool at Stewart Butterfield's company Tiny Speck and launched publicly in August 2013, quickly gaining hundreds of thousands of users; by its 2019 public offering it served over 10 million daily active users across 600,000+ organizations. Salesforce acquired Slack for roughly $27.7 billion in a deal announced December 2020 and completed July 2021, its largest acquisition to date, and Slack now operates as a Salesforce subsidiary.

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Groq

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ARC Prize Foundation

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Linear

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Mercor

Mercor is a San Francisco-based AI data company that recruits domain experts, including engineers, lawyers, doctors and bankers, to train and evaluate AI models for frontier labs. It was founded in 2023 by Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha, high school friends from the Bay Area who left college to build it and later received Thiel Fellowships. It began as a way to match freelance software engineers with companies, then moved into supplying expert human data to AI labs. Mercor also publishes APEX, a benchmark that measures how well AI models handle professional work such as consulting, investment banking and law.

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Block Open Source

Block Open Source is the GitHub organization for open-source work at Block, Inc., the American technology and financial services company formerly known as Square, Inc. Its README says most of Block's open-source work lives in related organizations, including Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey and the Lightning and Bitcoin Dev Kits. Projects credited to it in this directory include Agent Task Queue, Cachew and ElasticGraph.

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Tempo

Tempo is a payments-first Layer 1 blockchain jointly incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, founded and led by Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner of Paradigm. Designed to give stablecoins the dedicated payment rails that general-purpose blockchains were never built for, Tempo announced in September 2025, launched its mainnet in March 2026, and raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation from Thrive Capital and Greenoaks.

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Firecrawl

Firecrawl is a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed company (Summer 2022 batch) that provides a web data API for AI applications, turning live web pages into clean, structured, LLM-ready data. It was founded by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara, who previously built the AI-docs-chat product Mendable before pivoting to Firecrawl.

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WorkOS

WorkOS is an enterprise authentication and identity infrastructure platform founded in 2018 by Michael Grinich, formerly of MIT and founder of Nylas. It provides single sign-on, directory sync, and audit-log tooling that lets software companies, including major AI labs, sell to large enterprises without building that infrastructure themselves, and has raised roughly $198 million.

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Discord

Discord is an online communication platform founded in May 2015 by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, originally under the name Hammer & Chisel. It began as a voice and text chat tool built for gamers before broadening in 2020 into a general-purpose communication app for communities of all kinds, organized around invite-based 'servers.' The service has grown into one of the most widely used chat platforms globally, with over 200 million monthly active users.

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Apify

Apify is a web scraping and browser automation platform that lets developers and businesses extract data from websites and turn it into structured data without managing their own scraping infrastructure. Its marketplace of reusable, cloud-hosted programs, called Actors, covers use cases from e-commerce and social-media monitoring to search-engine data collection, and is used by companies including Groupon and Intercom. The platform has ranked first in Capterra's web scraping software category.

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Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is an AI infrastructure company, founded by Vincent Weisser and Johannes Hagemann, that builds decentralized platforms for training, evaluating, and deploying large-scale AI models by pooling globally distributed compute. In 2024 it trained INTELLECT-1, a 10-billion-parameter language model, using contributors' machines spread across the US, Europe, and Asia, and later released a 32-billion-parameter model trained with fully asynchronous reinforcement learning. The company has raised over $70 million from investors including Founders Fund, CoinFund, and Menlo Ventures.