Companies such as OpenAI and xAI were founded exclusively for AI; however, when large companies such as Google and Microsoft get involved, they have the resources to develop AI systems that wind up equal to or better than all the others.
Following are the AI companies in this encyclopedia that were founded for, or are heavily involved in, creating AI models and products for sale or public use. There are dozens more, and more will be added with each monthly release of this encyclopedia. There are also countless smaller companies that add AI infrastructure, and major cloud computing services have dedicated hardware to AI processing for their customers.
Who Uses AI?
As of 2025, there are more than 100 million organizations worldwide using or exploring AI and nearly a billion people using AI chatbots. See
AI glossary.
Founded for AI
Anduril
Anthropic
CalypsoAI
C3 AI
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OpenAI
Inflection AI
Mistral
Perplexity
Stability AI
xAI
AI Hardware
Amazon AI chips
AMD
NVIDIA
Involved in AI
Amazon AI chips
Apple Intelligence
DeepMind
Google AI
watsonx (IBM)
Meta
Inflection AI (Microsoft)
Palantir
Scale AI