AI companies

Companies that are on my radar as doing cool stuff, or where I might consider reaching out to people or applying for jobs.

Big labs / AGI companies

• OpenAI
• Deepmind
• Google Brain / Research
• FAIR

Language Models / assistants

• Anthropic
• Adept
• Replika (personal companion running on OpenAI)
• Cohere
• Inflection

Other AI

• ex-adept Amazon SF lab with Pieter Abbeel: https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-opens-new-ai-lab-in-san-francisco-focused-on-long-term-research-bets
• Thinking Machines (Mira Murati, John Schulman, others) thinkingmachines.ai
• https://www.extropic.ai/ : using thermodynamics to do optimization natively?
• MSR AI Frontiers: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/ai-frontiers/
• https://www.coreauto.com/ : Jerry Tworek and others, new training paradigms and architectures
• ineffable.ai: David Silver's company. London-based.
• https://www.recursive.com/ : recursive self-improvement: Founded by @RichardSocher, @rockt, @jeffclune, @timshi_ai, @tydsh, @CaimingXiong, Alexey Dosovitskiy & @josh_tobin
• https://engram.com/ : continual learning

Safety / alignment

• Conjecture
• Encultured: Andrew Critch and Nick Hay, building a video game as a platform for AI safety experiments.
• https://transluce.org/company (Jacob Steinhardt, mech interp and steering)
• https://ae.studio/ : LA-based, self-other alignment
• Softmax: https://www.softmax.com/ Emmett Shear, organic / multi-agent alignment
• Goodfire: https://www.goodfire.ai/ Nick Cammarata, mech interpretability, investment from Anthropic
• Eleos: https://eleosai.org/team/ AI welfare and consciousness, Berkeley

Math / coding

• xAI
• https://morph.so/blog/the-personal-ai-proof-engineer/
• https://www.maginative.com/article/magic-ai-secures-117-million-to-build-an-ai-software-engineer/
• https://www.cognition-labs.com/
• https://asari.ai/ maybe (science and engineering more generally)
• Cursor: Sasha Rush is there
• math.inc: Christian Szegedy's autoformalization startup

Bio / drug discovery / deep science

• Isomorphic: Deepmind spinoff, London-based.
• Prescient Design (Genentech): https://twitter.com/PrescientDesign (https://www.gene.com/scientists/our-scientists/prescient-design)
• Deep Forest (deep chem wrapper)
• cusp.ai : materials science for climate change, Max Welling
• polymathic AI (https://polymathic-ai.org/blog/announcement/): scientific foundation models
• angstrom : molecular dynamics https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LGp-ngstr-m-ai-gen-ai-molecular-simulations?ff=23
• Chai Discovery: https://www.chaidiscovery.com/blog/introducing-chai-1
• Achira https://achira.ai/ : atomistic foundation models for bio simulation and drug discovery. Theo K on the board
• Tabula: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SsLkxCxmkbBudLHQr/tabula-bio-towards-a-future-free-of-disease-and-looking-for statistical disease prediction from genomic data. interested in probabilistic programming. funded by Emmett Shear
• Arcadia
• Lila (https://www.lila.ai/about): open-ended scientific discovery, curiosity, w/ Ken Stanley (https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lila/jobs/8012245002)
• Periodic: creating an AI/LLM experimental scientist, with ex-DeepMind folks
• Anthrogen: https://www.anthrogen.com/
• https://www.altara.co/
• Midjourney medical: full body ultrasound scanning https://www.midjourney.com/medical/

Robotics

• Covariant
• 1X
• Physical Intelligence https://physicalintelligence.company/

Therapeutic

• https://arcadiamedicine.com/: safe MDMA
• https://tactogen.com/: better MDMA (non-racemic 5-MAPB, and other candidates)
• https://www.nudge.com : transcranial ultrasound