How did these companies get started?

Provides databases and authentication for app developers.

Finds security vulnerabilities across cloud systems.

Automates security compliance and audit preparation.

Analyzes financial documents for research and diligence.

Creates avatar videos and translates them across languages.

Turns prompts into presentations and websites.

Manufactures aerospace parts in automated factories.

AI agents handle email, scheduling and repetitive work.

Practise spoken English with a conversational AI tutor.

Helps sales teams call, research and follow up with leads.

Automates account reconciliation and month-end closing.

Runs a prediction market for real-world events.

Supplies training data and human feedback for AI models.

Builds Claude models and AI tools for work.

Builds AI perception and decision systems for defence.

Develops text, voice and video generation models.

Turns speech into polished text in any app.

Supplies hardened software packages and containers.

Lets people chat with AI characters they create.

Helps publishers launch and monetize newsletters.

Discovers sensitive data and manages security risks.

Serves image and video generation models through APIs.

Creates marketing content that follows a brand's voice.

Generates video from text and images.

Turns written descriptions into generated images.

Creates videos and automates captions and editing.

Provides cloud GPUs for running AI code.

Runs accounting ledgers and close workflows with AI.

Helps sell digital products and paid communities.

An AI coding editor that helps build software.

Generates speech and powers conversational voice agents.

Develops conversational AI assistants.

Searches the web and answers questions with sources.

Builds AI agents that operate business software.

An AI code editor for writing and revising software.

Designs specialized chips for AI inference.

Builds humanoid robots to perform physical work.

Helps lawyers research and draft legal documents.

Generates and edits images and videos with AI.

AI agents research and produce finished work.

Screens experts with AI interviews and supplies their expertise and real business workflow data to AI labs.

Answers clinicians' questions with medical evidence.

Teaches languages through conversations with AI avatars.

Generates design-ready images and vector graphics.

Helps finance teams research, analyze and create reports.

Creates songs with vocals from text prompts.

Connects expert workers with AI training projects.

Builds AI assistants connected to company knowledge.

Provides tools to build and evaluate AI agents.

Captures, organizes and shares meeting notes.

Builds Kimi AI for reasoning over long documents.

Develops AI models that businesses can deploy.

Turns text and images into short videos.

Builds a general-purpose AI brain for robots.

Resolves customer questions and takes follow-up actions.

Devin carries out software development tasks.

Automates research, documents and presentation creation.

AI agents carry out repetitive accounting work.

AI agents answer customer calls and make sales calls.

Generates interactive video and virtual worlds in real time, and sells the infrastructure that makes them economical to run.

Connects AI tasks into no-code automated workflows.

Creates videos with camera control and visual effects.

Helps lawyers review, research and draft documents.

Runs AI interviews and analyzes customer feedback.

Prepares company documents for use by AI agents.

Turns natural-language requests into working web apps.

Automates business calls with AI voice agents.

Provides APIs for developers to build voice agents.

Develops AI that can reason and act autonomously.

Researches safe superintelligent AI.

Develops image generation models including FLUX.

Uses AI to design drug molecules and antibodies.

Builds AI models that teach robots a range of tasks.

Generates 3D worlds from images and video.

Builds business apps from natural-language descriptions.

Builds customizable AI models and tools.