company Open AI
CEO Sam Altman
product Chatbot ChatGPT, image generator Dall-E
position San Francisco
raised over $11 billion
evaluation Over $27 billion
Investor
Microsoft Corp., Sequoia Capital, etc.
OpenAI, one of the world’s hottest startups, has sparked global interest in generative AI tools that can respond to written prompts with content such as images, short essays, and poems. In 2022, it released both the image generation tool Dall-E and the chatbot ChatGPT, which performed well in the bar exam and other standardized exams, perhaps changing homework forever. The introduction of ChatGPT sparked the chatbot craze and galvanized a small batch of new AI startups.
company Stability AI
CEO Emad Mostak
product Image Generator Stable Diffusion, Language Model StableLM
position London
raised $111 million
evaluation billion dollars
Investor
Coatue Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, O’Shaughnessy Ventures, etc.
Stability AI popularized and paid for the computing power behind Stable Diffusion, a buzzy image generator capable of producing stunningly realistic images. The company has also been controversial, with one of the creators of Stable Diffusion accusing it of unfairly praising the company for building the program. (Stability says that three of the original creators worked for the company and developed subsequent versions of the program in-house.) Stability recently raised funding at a $4 billion valuation. but some of the drama and its most powerful tools could provide some of this year’s headline AI.
company Runway
CEO Cristobal Valenzuela
product text to video conversion tool
position new york
raised $196 million
evaluation $1.5 billion
Investor
Felicis Ventures, Amplify Partners, Lux Capital, Coatue, Compound, Madrona, etc.
Many in the industry believe video is the next step in generative AI, following the craze of chatbots and image generators. Runway’s product allows users to create short videos with just a few words as prompts. The startup has also held an AI film festival for him to showcase the possibilities of the technology.
company hug face
CEO Clement DeLang
product Open source repository of AI models
position new york
raised $160 million
evaluation $2 billion
Investor
Lux Capital, Sequoia, Coatue, Addition, A.Capital, SV Angel, Betaworks, etc.
Hug faces play a central role in the generative AI frenzy. The startup will act as a hub where companies can find freely available AI models such as those developed by his Google, Meta and Microsoft. Founded in 2016 as a chatbot for teens, Hugging Face has become one of the most vocal advocates for making AI software open-source, ethical and climate-friendly. .
company close contact
CEO Aidan Gomez
product A natural language processing model for business
position Toronto
raised $420 million
evaluation $2 billion
Investor
Salesforce Inc., Nvidia Corp., Index Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Geoffrey Hinton, Pieter Abbeel, Fei-Fei Li and others
Cohere develops large-scale language models that other companies can use to build chatbots, search, and other products. The already highly-acclaimed startup was recently reported to be in talks to raise more funding at a hefty $6 billion valuation, but didn’t elaborate on the status of the deal.
company human
CEO Dario Amodei
product AI Assistant Claude
position San Francisco
raised over $1 billion
evaluation $5 billion
Investor
Spark Capital, Google, Salesforce, Sound Ventures, Zoom Ventures, etc.
Anthropic touts itself as an AI company and focuses on careful development. Its AI services are intended to be as secure as possible. Founded in 2021 by several former OpenAI staffers, Anthropic made its first chatbot, Claude, available in March. Among other uses, Claude can provide thread summaries and answer questions on her Slack. It is also published on Quora via a question answering bot called Poe.
company Character.AI
CEO Gnome Shazer
product build your own chatbot
position menlo park
raised $193 million
evaluation billion dollars
Investor
Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Elad Gill, SV Angel, A. Capital
Want to talk to Elon Musk, Socrates or Super Mario? The company allows users to imagine different characters and create chatbots that mimic their personalities and speaking styles. You can also create fictional characters such as a farting unicorn or a friendly banana. The startup offers its service for free, but recently launched a subscription program for $9.99/month. Character’s CEO says he wants the technology to be in the hands of “everyone on the planet.”
company The middle of a journey
CEO David Holtz
product Image generation tool
position San Francisco
raised none
evaluation none
Investor
self-funded
Midjourney has produced some of the most amazing AI art and imagery ever. The company uses text prompts similar to Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s Dall-E. But unlike those services, the only way to use Midjourney is via his Discord group, where would-be artists enter prompts. The CEO said there will be no investors in 2022 and not much financial incentive, saying, “All that matters is securing a home for the next 10 years to work on great projects that matter. It is,” he added.
company Scale your AI
CEO Alexander Wang
product AI training
position San Francisco
raised $603 million
evaluation $7.3 billion
Investor
Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoaks Capital Partners, Tiger Global Management, Coatue, etc.
Training an AI model requires a large amount of labeled data (think pictures of cats claiming to be cats) to create a program that can correctly identify images. Scale AI provides software and personnel to label text, image and audio data. However, this company does more than just cute cat pictures. Scale’s CEO said in a blog post in May that he believes the “next war era” will be defined by AI, which he believes will be needed to “fight authoritarianism.” Stated.
company unusual security
CEO Evan Reiser
product email security platform
position San Francisco
raised $284 million
evaluation $4 billion
Investor
Insight Partners, Greylock Partners, Menlo Ventures, etc.
Your email inbox can be a minefield for phishing, malware, and fraud. The issue has become a multi-billion dollar opportunity for Abnormal Security, which last year gave him $210 million for a security platform that blocks threats sent through email, Slack and other services. procured. The startup uses machine learning to detect red flags like tone changes and urgent bills, and has over 500 staff. Its AI is trained to detect fraudulent activity through anomalous messages.
