AI Companies

Overview

Summarizes various AI players in the order of importance.

OpenAI

ChatGPT, DALL-E (text-to-image), Sora (text-to-video)
GPTs (alternative to GPT Plugins) released Nov 2023
Microsoft owns 49% stake. Not taken over yet.
2024 Revenue 2B; Microsoft invested 13B since 2019
Founded: 2015 as Non-profit
Founders: Sam Altman, Elon Musk, etc.

HuggingFace

Computation tools/libs for ML, Models, datasets, (private) spaces
Transformer library for NLP
Gradio library for build/demo ML App
Location: NewYork
Founded: 2016; French Entrepreneurs;
Revenue: $ 50M

MistralAI

OpenWeights LLM
Some opensource models; Some closed
Global 4th in AI. First outside Bay area.
Location: Paris
Founded April 2023;
Various Models; Mixture of Experts Architecture; 8x7B model.
Le Chat similar to ChatGPT
Current Valuation > 5B
> 100 Employees
It added the ability to create images, in partnership with Black Forest Labs, utilizing the Flux Pro models.
Can do internet search.

Anthropic

Founded Jan 2021
11 ex-employees from OpenAI joined Anthropic initially.
Claude AI
Amazon 4B, Google 2B already invested.
Research safety and reliability of AI.
Claude available from Amazon Bedrock
Claude 3 - Opus (Large), Sonet, Haiku (small)

DeepMind and Google

Founded 2010, Acquired by Google 2014, Merged with Google Brain by 2023.
HQ based in London.
Products:
- AlphaGo (2016) (Reinforcement Learning), AlphaFold (2020) Protein Folding Structure,
- GridWorld (2017) Opensource testbed for evaluating RL (and AI Safety),
- Gato (2022) General Purpose (vs Narrow) AI System Capable of 600 different Tasks ,
- Robocat (2024) successor of Gato but primarily useful in Robotics to control multiple arms.
- Gemini (Latest multimodal processing text, videos, images and code),
- Google Vertex AI (Development Platform much like SageMaker for AWS)
- Google Cloud AI (providing pre-trained models and APIs like Bedrock for AWS)
- AI Skills House (For Learning AI)
Co-Founder SuleyMan joined Microsoft AI on 2024

Cohere

Founded 2019, HQ in Canada.
Founders from Google Brain Transformers Team.

Preplexity AI

Founded in 2022
Generates answers using sources from Web and cites links.
Uses GPT-3.5 with Browsing.
Valuation 9B
Products:
- Pro uses GPT-4 along with it's own LLM assisted search.
- Pages (2024) Web Page Generation based on Prompts
- 5 Pro searches per day free.

Cohere Preplexity Inflection Together