Inclusion

For the initial phase of the AI Companies Dataset, we focus on foundation model developers, or AI developers for whom training their own models is a core business priority.

There are currently no formal criteria for selection: we prioritized companies if their models are near the frontier in general-purpose AI capabilities, or if they are among the most commercially significant AI companies.

Other major types of AI companies include: AI application developers that use third-party models (e.g. Anysphere and Perplexity), cloud compute companies (e.g. Microsoft and Amazon), semiconductor companies (e.g. NVIDIA and TSMC), and AI data vendors (e.g. Scale AI and Mercor).