Invariably there are many players behind the scenes of any field, trade or profession, and in the world of AI, even moreso. There are all kinds of start-ups, fananciers, defunct brands, benchmarking services and more. Here is a very short list of some companies & businesses that I found worth being aware of.
AWS (Amazon Web Services?)
- Security Token Service, Auth-O, CyberArkPAM, Secrets Mgr, Cloud Trail
Black Forest Labs
- German AI company, mainly dealinng with video, image & audio.
- Makers of Flux 3 Video
- (formerly guys from Diffusion and Stable)
C-Data
- Data Integration firm, provides secure data layers for AI Agents, co-pilots and AI models to your private systems
Celaris-1
- The fastest General-Purpose AI, based in San Fransisco
- Used for Data Classification & Extraction,query re-write, routing & voice apps
CrushBank
- AI knowledge bank for IT support desks, service providers and cyber security desks
- (GPT, Claude, Gemini)
Cursor
- Code Editor and developer environment to help programmers
- Cloud Agents
DeepMind
- Owned by Alphabet Inc, (aka Google, Gemini)
- Top AI research lab based in London England
- Also created Veo & Lyria
Design Arena
- Parent company is called ‘Intelligence’
- Crowd-Sourced Bench Marking platform to compare AI outputs from top AI Models
Eleven Labs
- Makers of audio tools, voice cloning, AI dubbing, AI generated music & language translation
- Based in London, New York, San Francisco & Warsaw
FireCrawl
- Makers of AnyDoc software – for Open-Source Data Extraction
- Conversion to Markdown or JSON for easy AI processing
- For LLM’s and Agents
HeyGen
- Makers of visual avatars -Studio quality talking head videos that operate as an AI Agent
- Processes video from webcam, cellphone videos
- Similar to Synthesia
Hugging Face
- Leading platform/community for AI & ML (Machine Learning)
Irregular
- 3rd party testing lab and evaluation partner for AI
Keygod School of Business
- Top university for AI in business (Institute For Applied AI)
- Campus-wide integration of AI & dedicated Degrees for AI
Mistral AI
- French start-up in Open-Weight Commercial LLM
- Makers of Codestral, Pixtral, Shieldstral, Voxtral and more
- Former Google/Meta people
Open Claw
- Is a viral, open source autonomous AI Agent platform
- Runs locally on your network, you control & automate computer tasks
RedLine
- AI tool that can mark, re-write, flag and/or cross out unfavorable terms in contracts & negitiations
- Can Assess, summarize and project possible legal issues
- Translates Legal-ese into simple understandable terms (English-only)
- Can flag hidden fees, penalties & renewal traps, non-compete limits, data-sharing risks
- Operates locally, not on a cloud, runs in airplane mode
Safe SuperIntelligence Inc
- R&D firm for AI Safety
- They avoid commercial distractions & mass profits
- Former OpenAI people
Volta
- AI platform that finances, builds & operates data centers
- Backed by NVidia (NVidia also has a line of chips named Volta)
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