Leading AI companies

A handful of companies and research labs are responsible for building the most powerful AI systems in the world. Who they are, what they are building, and how they compare is changing fast. Epoch maintains databases and conducts analysis tracking the leading AI labs, their major model releases, compute resources, and workforce, providing a data-driven view of who is shaping the frontier of AI.

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Frontier Lab Hiring
Updated Nov. 4, 2026
Frontier Lab Hiring

Daily archive of Anthropic's and OpenAI's job postings.

Broadcom TPU compute shipments doubled from Q2 to Q3 2026, reaching 2 million H100-equivalents
Data Insight
Nov. 4, 2026
Broadcom TPU compute shipments doubled from Q2 to Q3 2026, reaching 2 million H100-equivalents

Broadcom’s shipments of TPU by unit volume increased by about 65% quarter over quarter to roughly 800,000 chips, while compute output doubled, driven by a shift to more powerful chips.

By Venkat Somala and Josh You

AI companies
Updated Oct. 27, 2026
AI companies

Our database of AI company data, with data on revenue, funding, staff, and compute for many of the key players in frontier AI.

Open-weight models trail closed models in cyber capabilities by 6–7 months
Data Insight
Oct. 16, 2026
Open-weight models trail closed models in cyber capabilities by 6–7 months

Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 is the top open-weight model on Epoch’s Cyber ECI, scoring where the closed-weight frontier stood 6–7 months earlier.

By Jaeho Lee and Alexander Barry

AI chip users
Updated Sep. 9, 2026
AI chip users

Our estimates of how much computing power the leading AI developers rent or use, measured in Nvidia H100-equivalents (H100e).

How do Chinese AI companies make money?
Report
Oct. 6, 2026
How do Chinese AI companies make money?

China's six leading AI firms earn about 10% of OpenAI and Anthropic's combined AI revenue. Epoch AI examines their five revenue streams: consumer apps, model access, enterprise and government solutions, licensing fees, and indirect monetization through cloud and advertising.

By Cheryl Wu and Anson Ho

Coding-agent spending by OpenAI researchers is doubling roughly every month
Data Insight
Oct. 5, 2026
Coding-agent spending by OpenAI researchers is doubling roughly every month

OpenAI researchers’ coding-agent usage, valued at API prices, has recently been doubling roughly every month, according to breakpoint fits.

By Yafah Edelman and Luke Emberson

Introducing the AI Chip Users explorer
Update
Sep. 9, 2026
Introducing the AI Chip Users explorer

A first look at Epoch AI's data on compute usage across five leading labs.

By Josh You

Long-context latency scales quadratically for GPT-5.6 but nearly linearly for Claude 5
Report
Sep. 8, 2026
Long-context latency scales quadratically for GPT-5.6 but nearly linearly for Claude 5

Epoch AI measures long-context latency scaling across four frontier models. GPT-5.6 Terra and Sol show quadratic time-to-first-token growth with context length, while Claude Sonnet 5 and Opus 5 stay near-linear.

By Jason Li

An update on AI’s most important number
Newsletter
Aug. 27, 2026
An update on AI’s most important number

How quickly are Anthropic and OpenAI growing their revenue?

By Josh You and Lynette Bye