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The companies, labs and agencies behind the technology news.
34 profiles compiled from each organization's own filings and announcements and from established reporting, with every fact credited to its source.
- Private company
AgiBot
AgiBot is a Shanghai-based maker of humanoid robots, founded in 2023 by two former Huawei employees. Two research firms ranked it first in humanoid shipments for the first half of 2026.
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AMD
AMD designs processors for servers, PCs and AI data centers. It competes with Intel in CPUs and with Nvidia in AI GPUs, and has signed multi-gigawatt GPU supply deals with OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic.
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Anduril Industries
Privately held U.S. defense technology company that builds autonomous aircraft, missiles and undersea vehicles plus the Lattice software that links them. It announced a $61 billion valuation in May 2026.
View profile - Private public benefit corporation
Anthropic
Anthropic is the San Francisco AI company behind the Claude models. Valued at $965 billion in May 2026, it has filed confidentially for an IPO, and its chief executive has called for slower AI capability gains.
View profile - Public company
ASML
Dutch maker of the lithography machines that print circuit patterns onto chips. Its EUV systems are used to make advanced logic and memory chips, tying it to AI demand and export controls.
View profile - Private company
Axiom Space
Axiom Space is a Houston company that flies private astronauts to the International Space Station and develops spacesuits for NASA. It plans a commercial space station and says it operates two computing units in orbit.
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Blue Origin
Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos's privately held space company. It builds the New Glenn heavy-lift rocket and the Blue Moon lunar landers that NASA plans to use in its Artemis Moon program.
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CATL
Chinese battery maker that supplied 39.9% of the world's electric-vehicle batteries in the first half of 2026, according to SNE Research, and is building large plants in Europe.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Private U.S. fusion energy company assembling the SPARC demonstration tokamak in Massachusetts and planning ARC, a 400-megawatt power plant in Virginia. It says it has raised $4 billion.
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Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy is a Baltimore-based power producer and the largest U.S. operator of nuclear plants. Since 2024 it has announced long-term nuclear power deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google.
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Hangzhou-based AI developer known for low-cost, openly released language models. In 2026 it began raising outside money and, Reuters reported, hired a broker to prepare a Shanghai listing.
View profile - Public company
DNB
Norway's largest financial services group, 34% owned by the Norwegian state. In October 2026 it said it would cut about 400 positions in its technology unit and tied the cut to its use of AI agents.
View profile - Private company
Figure AI
Figure AI is a San Jose startup building general-purpose humanoid robots and the Helix AI model that runs them. It announced a $39 billion valuation in September 2025 and builds its Figure 03 robot at its own plant.
View profile - Subsidiary of Alphabet, a public company
Google
Google is the largest business of Alphabet, a Mountain View, California company. It runs Search, YouTube, Google Cloud and the Gemini AI models, and builds data centers worldwide to power them.
View profile - AI research unit of Google (Alphabet)
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind is the Alphabet-owned AI lab that builds Google's Gemini models and science tools such as AlphaFold. Formed in 2023 from DeepMind and Google Brain, it changed leaders in August 2026.
View profile - Private, employee-owned company
Huawei
Huawei is a Shenzhen-based maker of telecom equipment, phones and chips. Under US export restrictions since 2019, it now sells Ascend AI processors as a Chinese alternative to Nvidia's chips.
View profile - Public company
HubSpot
HubSpot is a Cambridge, Massachusetts software company that sells marketing, sales and customer service tools by subscription. In October 2026 it said it would cut nearly 660 jobs, about 7% of its team.
View profile - State-owned company
Humain
Humain is Saudi Arabia's state-owned AI company, launched in May 2025 under the Public Investment Fund. It builds data centers, Arabic AI models and devices, and its CEO sought IPO-preparation hires in September 2026.
View profile - Public company (HKEX: 3696)
Insilico Medicine
Insilico Medicine is a Hong Kong-listed drug developer that uses generative AI to find disease targets and design molecules. Its lead drug, rentosertib, entered a Phase III lung disease trial in China in 2026.
View profile - Private company (Alphabet-backed)
Isomorphic Labs
Isomorphic Labs is Alphabet's London-based AI drug discovery company, spun out of Google DeepMind in 2021. It raised $2.1 billion in May 2026 and still described its drug programs as preclinical in September 2026.
View profile - Intergovernmental organization
ITER
ITER is an international fusion experiment being assembled in southern France. The ITER Organization, an intergovernmental body with seven members, runs it. Its timeline lists research operation starting in 2034.
View profile - Government agency
MHRA
The MHRA regulates medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK. It set up the commission whose 44 recommendations on regulating AI in healthcare the government accepted in October 2026.
View profile - Private company
Mistral AI
Mistral AI is a Paris-based developer of AI models, founded in April 2023. It publishes open-weight models and sells AI tools and computing capacity to companies and governments.
View profile - Government agency
NASA
NASA is the U.S. civil space and aeronautics agency. It leads the Artemis Moon program and buys rockets, capsules and landers from contractors including SpaceX, Blue Origin and Boeing.
View profile - Public company
Nvidia
Nvidia designs the graphics processors and data center systems widely used to train and run AI models. It reported $215.9 billion in fiscal 2026 revenue and is a focus of US chip export policy.
View profile - Private company (nonprofit-controlled)
OpenAI
OpenAI is the San Francisco developer of ChatGPT and the GPT models. It was valued at $852 billion in March 2026 and faces government inquiries over 2026 incidents involving its AI agents.
View profile - Public company
Quantinuum
Quantum computing company formed from Honeywell's quantum unit and Cambridge Quantum. It builds trapped-ion machines such as Helios and listed on Nasdaq in June 2026.
View profile - State-backed company
Rapidus
Japanese state-backed chipmaker building a foundry in Hokkaido that aims to mass-produce 2-nanometer logic chips in 2027, using technology developed with IBM.
View profile - Public company
SMIC
SMIC is China's largest contract chipmaker, listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai. It is under US export restrictions and is the only Chinese foundry reported to mass-produce 7-nanometer logic chips.
View profile - Public company
SpaceX
SpaceX builds reusable rockets, runs the Starlink satellite internet network and, since acquiring xAI in February 2026, an AI business. It listed on Nasdaq in June 2026.
View profile - Public company
Tesla
U.S. maker of electric vehicles and battery energy storage systems, led by Elon Musk. It delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 and says its focus is now AI, including robotaxis and robots.
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TSMC
TSMC is the Taiwan-based contract chipmaker that manufactures advanced processors designed by companies such as Nvidia and AMD. It is a focus of US-Taiwan trade policy and is expanding its US manufacturing.
View profile - Public company
Unitree Robotics
Unitree Robotics is a Hangzhou-based maker of humanoid and four-legged robots. It listed in Shanghai in August 2026, after the Pentagon added it to its list of Chinese military companies in June.
View profile - Alphabet subsidiary
Waymo
Waymo is Alphabet's self-driving company. TechCrunch counted roughly 4,000 Waymo robotaxis and service in 15 U.S. cities in September 2026, and the company has announced plans to launch abroad.
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