OpenAI San Francisco · est. 2015
General-purpose frontier models and agents
Latest: GPT-5.6 · Jul 2026
GPT-5.5 frontier GPT-5.4 frontier Frontier AI Labs
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Frontier Labs
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Anthropic San Francisco · est. 2021
Safety-focused frontier models, Claude
Latest: Claude Opus 5 · Jul 2026
Claude Sonnet 5 frontier Claude Fable 5 frontier 
xAI Palo Alto · est. 2023
Frontier models integrated with X
Latest: Grok 4.5 · Jul 2026
Grok 4.1 frontier Grok Imagine image 
Mistral AI Paris · est. 2023
Open and commercial models from Europe
Latest: Mistral OCR 4 · Jun 2026
Mistral Medium 3.5 frontier Mistral Small 4 multimodal 
Google DeepMind London · est. 2010
Frontier research, Gemini and science models
Latest: Gemini 3.6 Flash · Jul 2026
Gemini Robotics 2 robotics Gemma 4 open-weights 
Reflection AI New York · est. 2024
Open-weights frontier models, autonomous coding
Latest: Asimov · Jul 2025
Cohere Toronto · est. 2019
Enterprise AI, secure deployments
Latest: Command A+ · May 2026
Embed 4 embedding Command A frontier 
Thinking Machines Lab San Francisco · est. 2025
Open multimodal models and fine-tuning tools
Latest: Inkling · Jul 2026
Inkling-Small open-weights 
Meta Superintelligence Labs Menlo Park · est. 2025
Frontier models for Meta products
Latest: Muse Spark · Apr 2026
V-JEPA 2 multimodal Llama 4 Scout and Maverick open-weights 
Ai2 Seattle · est. 2014
Fully open models, data, and science
Latest: OlmoEarth v1.2 · Jul 2026
Molmo 2 multimodal Olmo 3 open-weights 
Cognition San Francisco · est. 2023
AI software engineering agents and coding models
Latest: SWE-1.6 · Apr 2026
SWE-1.5 frontier SWE-grep search 
Sakana AI Tokyo · est. 2023
Nature-inspired and self-improving AI
Latest: Sakana Namazu · Aug 2026
Fugu-Ultra v1.1 frontier Fugu-Cyber reasoning 
Nous Research New York · est. 2023
Open-source models and decentralized training
Latest: NousCoder-14B · Jan 2026
Hermes 4.3 (36B) open-weights Hermes 4 reasoning 
Safe Superintelligence Palo Alto · est. 2024
Safe superintelligence research
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China Frontier Labs
Frontier-scale labs headquartered in China
DeepSeek Hangzhou · est. 2023
Open-weights frontier language models
Latest: DeepSeek-V4-Pro · Apr 2026
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 open-weights DeepSeek-V4-Flash open-weights 
Alibaba Qwen Hangzhou · est. 2023
Open and closed frontier model family
Latest: Qwen3.8-Max · Aug 2026
Qwen3-ASR speech Qwen3.7-Max frontier 
Moonshot AI Beijing · est. 2023
Open-weights frontier agentic models
Latest: Kimi K3 · Jul 2026
Kimi K2.7-Code open-weights Kimi K2.6 open-weights 
Zhipu AI Beijing · est. 2019
Open-weights frontier GLM models
Latest: GLM-5.2 · Jun 2026
GLM-OCR multimodal GLM-5.1 open-weights 
MiniMax Shanghai · est. 2021
Frontier text plus video generation
Latest: MiniMax-M3 · Jun 2026
MiniMax-H3 video MiniMax-M2.7 open-weights 
ByteDance Seed Beijing · est. 2023
Frontier models for ByteDance products
Latest: Doubao Seed 2.1 Pro · Jun 2026
Doubao-Seed-2.0 frontier Seedance 2.0 video 03
Specialist Model Labs
Focused shops: video, image, speech, robotics
Perplexity AI San Francisco · est. 2022
AI answer engine and agentic search
Latest: Sonar Deep Research
Sonar Pro search Sonar search 
Physical Intelligence San Francisco · est. 2024
Robot foundation models
Latest: pi-0.7 · Apr 2026
pi*-0.6 robotics pi-0.5 robotics 
Character.AI Menlo Park · est. 2021
AI characters for entertainment
Latest: PipSqueak 2 · Apr 2026
PipSqueak frontier AvatarFX video 
World Labs San Francisco · est. 2024
Spatial intelligence, generative 3D worlds
Latest: Marble 1.1 · Apr 2026
Marble multimodal RTFM multimodal 
ElevenLabs New York · est. 2022
Voice and audio AI
Latest: Eleven v3 · Feb 2026
Scribe v2 Realtime speech Eleven Music music 
Runway ML New York · est. 2018
Video and world models
Latest: GWM-1 · Dec 2025
Gen-4.5 video Aleph video 
Luma AI Redwood City · est. 2021
Video generation models
Latest: Ray3.14 · Jan 2026
Ray3 video Ray2 video 
Suno Cambridge · est. 2022
Music generation
Latest: v5.5 · Mar 2026
v5 music v4.5+ music 
Figure San Jose · est. 2022
Humanoid robots
Latest: Figure 03 · Oct 2025
Helix robotics 
Skild AI Pittsburgh · est. 2023
Robotics foundation models
Latest: Skild Brain · Jul 2025
1X Technologies San Carlos · est. 2014
Home humanoid robots
Latest: Redwood · Jun 2025
NEO robotics 
Cartesia San Francisco · est. 2023
Real-time voice models
Latest: Sonic-3.5 · Jun 2026
Ink-2 speech Sonic-3 speech 
Liquid AI Cambridge · est. 2023
Efficient on-device foundation models
Latest: LFM2.5-2.6B · Aug 2026
LFM2.5-Encoders embedding LFM2.5-8B-A1B open-weights 
Black Forest Labs Freiburg · est. 2024
Image generation models
Latest: FLUX.2 [klein] · Jan 2026
FLUX.2 image FLUX.1 Kontext image 
Ideogram Toronto · est. 2022
Image generation and typography
Latest: Ideogram 4.0 · Jun 2026
Ideogram 3.0 image Ideogram 2.0 image 
Hume AI New York · est. 2021
Expressive voice AI
Latest: Octave 2 · Oct 2025
EVI 4 mini speech EVI 3 speech Role data syncs continuously from each lab's public ATS feed. Curated by a16z speedrun talent.