AI Foundation Models & AGI Companies
Organizations pushing the frontier of artificial general intelligence through large language model research, open-source models, and AI safety.
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Foundation Models & AGI Companies
OpenAI
AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT, the GPT series of large language models, DALL-E image generation, and the Sora video model. The fastest-growing consumer AI platform with over 200 million weekly active users.
Anthropic
Anthropic raised $7.3B+ total funding (2026). Creator of Claude AI—see investors (Google, Amazon, Spark), $2B+ ARR, how Claude compares to GPT-4.5, Gemini 3.
Meta
Develops AI products and infrastructure for broad consumer use, supported by large-scale financing for an expanded AI investment plan.
Prometheus
Builds an artificial general engineer aimed at applying advanced AI capabilities to engineering and manufacturing challenges in the physical world.
DeepSeek
Develops foundation models and AGI research platforms for organizations and research institutions, focusing on large-scale model capabilities and deployment.
xAI
AI foundation model developer that raised $6B in late-stage funding. Latest round details, valuation data, and investor breakdown for May 2026.
Safe Superintelligence
Develops safe superintelligence through a dedicated AI research lab focused on frontier model safety and capability.
Moonshot AI
AI large language model developer raising funds in June 2026. Full breakdown of the funding round, investors, and market impact.
Mistral
European AI lab building open-weight large language models for developers and enterprises. Mistral's models, including Mistral Large and Mixtral (mixture-of-experts), deliver frontier performance with permissive licenses. Founded by former Meta and DeepMind researchers in Paris, Mistral is Europe's most valuable AI startup and a champion of open-source AI development.
Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab is a European AI research laboratory co-founded by Yann LeCun, dedicated to developing next-generation AI architectures that go beyond large language models. The lab focuses on reasoning systems, world models, and energy-efficient AI, positioning itself as a key player in Europe's push to build sovereign AI research capabilities independent of US tech giants.
MiniMax
Develops large language models and generative AI products, using substantial private funding to advance model and product development.
World Labs
Spatial intelligence company building frontier AI models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world. Founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li.
AMI Labs
AMI Labs is an AI research lab co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, focused on building world models that learn predictive representations of how the physical world works. Their research on self-supervised learning and Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures represents a fundamentally different approach to AI that could enable machines to reason and plan like humans.
Prior Labs
A European deeptech AI lab is scaling a research project into a €1B-backed organization focused on foundation-model development.
Domyn
Develops AI models for organizations seeking advanced generative AI capabilities, backed by a more than $1 billion financing round.
Sakana AI
AI research lab raises $300M+ in June 2026 funding round. See full breakdown: valuation, lead investors, and how it compares to top AI deals.
General Intuition
It develops foundation-model and artificial general intelligence technology, with reported financing talks valuing the company near $2 billion.
Sarvam
Develops generative AI models and products tailored to Indian languages and enterprise use cases for the domestic market.
Mirendil
AI research startup raised $200M seed round in 2026—one of the largest ever. See how Mirendil plans to deploy funds and what investors are betting on.
Prentis
The company is building a new AI lab backed by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, with plans for a $100 million financing round.
Standard Intelligence
AI automation startup raises $75M (2026). Compare funding details, investors, and how it stacks against Lovable and sector rivals.
Nous Research
Nous Research develops Hermes-branded AI agents for enterprises and developers. The foundation model startup raised $30M Series A in 2026 from Redpoint Ventures. See full funding rounds, valuation, and open-source contributions.
Radical Numerics
AI biological intelligence startup that raised funding in June 2026 to advance modeling and reasoning about biological systems. See latest round details.
Deep Cogito
Builds self-improving AI models aimed at advancing autonomous model development and adaptive intelligence for next-generation AI systems.
Mundo
An AI company is developing technology aimed at tackling the next frontier of artificial intelligence, backed by a $24 million round.
kausable
It develops reasoning-first AI systems designed to adapt to new tasks and contexts without retraining for deep tech users.
Synthefy
Builds number-crunching AI models trained on numerical data rather than words for quantitative analysis tasks.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many AI Foundation Models & AGI companies are tracked?
We currently track 27 companies in the Foundation Models & AGI sector, with a combined funding total of $515.7B + €1.0B.
Which Foundation Models & AGI company has raised the most funding?
OpenAI leads the Foundation Models & AGI sector with $193.9B in total funding raised.
What is the average funding for Foundation Models & AGI startups?
Foundation Models & AGI companies in our database have raised $515.7B + €1.0B in total across 27 companies, reported in more than one currency. This includes all stages from seed to late-stage rounds.