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The leading AI labs, compared
The frontier of AI is built by a handful of labs. This is a source-cited directory of the 8 that matter — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek and Cohere — with founders, mission, flagship models and, where disclosed, funding and valuation.
Each profile combines qualitative facts (founders, mission, key models) with Epoch AI's quantitative company data (funding, valuation, revenue, staff). Every financial figure is dated and sourced; undisclosed values are marked, never estimated. OpenAI is the most-funded at $182.8bn.
8 labs · financials: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), as of 2026-08-17 · Updated 2026-08-17
At a glance — the labs compared
| Lab | HQ | Founded | Funding | Valuation | Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | United States | 2015 | $182.8bn | $852.0bn | 4,500 |
| Anthropic | United States | 2021 | $139.4bn | $965.0bn | 3,000 |
| xAI | United States | 2023 | $37.0bn | $230.0bn | 300 |
| DeepSeek | China | 2023 | $7.5bn | $50.0bn | 300 |
| Mistral AI | France | 2023 | $3.0bn | $13.7bn | 350 |
| Cohere | Canada | 2019 | — | — | — |
| Google DeepMind | United States | 2010 | — | — | 6,000 |
| Meta AI | United States | 2013 | — | — | 3,400 |
Funding = total equity raised (internal Big-Tech divisions show “—”). Valuation/staff = latest dated figure held by Epoch AI. Source: Epoch AI, Data on AI Companies.
Profiles
OpenAI
Frontier GPT models and ChatGPT; brought generative AI to the mainstream; deep Microsoft partnership.
San Francisco, USA · founded 2015 · $182.8bn
Anthropic
Safety-focused frontier models; Constitutional AI; enterprise and developer Claude.
San Francisco, USA · founded 2021 · $139.4bn
xAI
Grok models integrated with X; Musk-founded; Colossus-scale compute.
Palo Alto, California, USA · founded 2023 · $37.0bn
DeepSeek
Cost-efficient open-weight reasoning models; China's leading open-model lab.
Hangzhou, China · founded 2023 · $7.5bn
Mistral AI
Open-weight European frontier models; efficient MoE architectures; Le Chat assistant.
Paris, France · founded 2023 · $3.0bn
Cohere
Enterprise and RAG-oriented models; sovereign/private AI; Transformer-lineage founders.
Toronto, Canada · founded 2019
Google DeepMind
Gemini frontier models plus scientific breakthroughs (AlphaGo, AlphaFold); research arm of Alphabet.
London, UK · founded 2010
Meta AI
Open-weight Llama models; FAIR fundamental research; open-model leadership.
Menlo Park, California, USA · founded 2013