AI Startup Intelligence

Foundation Model Companies

Discover foundation model and LLM companies building general models, domain models, multimodal systems, and model platforms.

Companies tracked: 156Key segments: general LLMs, domain models, multimodal modelsUpdated: June 25, 2026

Foundation Models Market Snapshot

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The category is increasingly defined by distribution, inference economics, data access, and vertical specialization rather than model scale alone.

Representative Companies

A crawler-visible sample of companies from the AI Market Watch database.

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Company	Location	Funding	Focus
Zhipu AI Founded 2019	Beijing, China	$2.0B	A leading AGI infrastructure provider (rebranded internationally as Z.ai) developing the GLM foundation model series, autonomous agents, and the 'Zhipu Qingyan' consumer super-app.
MiniMax Founded 2021	Shanghai, China	$1.77B	A leading generative AI company providing multimodal foundation models and consumer-facing applications for social interaction, productivity, and media generation.
Twelve Labs Founded 2021	San Francisco, CA, USA	$107M	A multimodal AI infrastructure company building native video foundation models that enable developers and enterprises to search, classify, and generate text from video content with human-level understanding.
Splash Founded 2017	Brisbane, Australia	$27M	AI-powered music creation platform that integrates generative music technology into gaming experiences, particularly on Roblox
AI21 Labs Founded 2017	Tel Aviv, Israel	$636 million	Develops proprietary large language models and AI systems focused on reliable, enterprise-grade natural language processing applications.
Stability AI Founded 2019	London, UK	$231M total ($80M in June 2024, plus WPP strategic investment in March 2025)	An open-source generative AI company that develops foundation models for image, language, audio, and video generation.
DeepSeek AI Founded 2023	Hangzhou, China	Privately funded by parent company High-Flyer Quant. No external VC funding raised as of July 2025. First external funding round in negotiation as of May 2026.	An efficient, open source-focused AI startup pioneering cost-effective generative AI models that rival the capabilities of industry leaders at a fraction of the cost.
Anthropic Founded 2021	San Francisco, United States	$132.3B	Anthropic builds Claude, a family of frontier large language models designed with safety at the core, offering reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems for enterprises, developers, and consumers.
Peec AI Founded 2025	Berlin, Germany	$29M	AI-powered search analytics platform that helps brands track, analyze, and optimize their visibility in generative AI search results
Arcee Founded 2023	Miami, USA	$50M	An end-to-end platform for training, merging, and deploying domain-specific Small Language Models (SLMs) within secure, private enterprise environments.
Stepfun Founded 2023	Shanghai, China	$3,800.0M	Stepfun (阶跃星辰) is a leading Chinese AI startup dedicated to developing trillion-parameter multimodal foundation models and AGI infrastructure, known as one of China's 'AI Six Little Tigers.'
AllGPT Founded 2025	Newark, Delaware, USA	Undisclosed	A unified AI workspace that aggregates over 100 premium AI models—including GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Gemini 1.5—into a single browser-based interface under a consolidated subscription model.
Reka AI Founded 2022	Sunnyvale, USA	$168M	Reka AI is an AI research and product company that develops enterprise-focused, multimodal generative AI models and solutions capable of understanding and processing text, images, video, and audio.
OpenAI Founded 2015	San Francisco, United States	$199.6B	AI research and deployment company developing safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) through advanced language models, consumer applications, and enterprise AI solutions.
Mistral AI Founded 2023	Paris, France	$3.0B	A frontier AI platform providing open-weight and proprietary large language models (LLMs), AI assistants, autonomous agents, and enterprise AI services that can be deployed anywhere from edge devices to cloud infrastructure.
Leonardo.Ai Founded 2022	Sydney, Australia	$39.0M	A generative AI platform for creating production-quality images, videos, and creative assets with high user control, custom model training capabilities, and enterprise-grade API integration.
Black Forest Labs Founded 2024	Freiburg, Germany	$481.0M	Frontier AI platform for visual intelligence providing production-grade text-to-image generation and editing models, featuring the FLUX family that combines state-of-the-art quality with open-weights accessibility for enterprise and developer ecosystems.
Seedance Founded 2023	Beijing, China	Undisclosed (Corporate Funded)	A next-generation multimodal AI video generation platform by ByteDance that creates cinematic-quality, multi-shot videos with native synchronized audio from text, image, and audio inputs.
Glean Founded 2019	Palo Alto, USA	$642.0M	An enterprise AI platform and middleware layer that enables organizations to search, discover, and build agentic AI workflows across all internal company data with strict security and permission awareness.
Contented Founded 2023	Christchurch, New Zealand	AUD $4.1M	An AI-powered platform that transforms workplace conversations and unstructured audio into structured business documentation, actionable insights, and scalable intellectual assets.