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Companies & labs
Who builds AI, who owns it, and how they make money.
- AnthropicThe AI safety company that makes the Claude family of AI models and the Claude assistant.
- Google DeepMindGoogle’s main AI research lab, formed in 2023 by merging DeepMind with Google Brain, and the team behind the Gemini models.
- Mistral AIA Paris-based AI company founded in 2023 that builds open-weight and commercial language models and the Le Chat assistant.
- OpenAIThe San Francisco AI company behind ChatGPT, run since October 2025 as a public benefit corporation controlled by a nonprofit foundation.