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AlphaGo and AlphaZero
AlphaGo was the DeepMind program that beat the world's best Go players, a milestone long thought decades away.
CompaniesKimi and Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI is a Beijing startup founded in 2023 whose Kimi chatbot became famous for handling extremely long documents.
CompaniesZhipu GLM Models
Zhipu AI is a Tsinghua-spun Beijing company behind the GLM (General Language Model) family.
CompaniesTencent Hunyuan
Hunyuan is Tencent's in-house family of large AI models spanning text, image, 3D, and video.
CompaniesCerebras Systems
Cerebras builds the world's largest computer chip, the Wafer-Scale Engine, putting an entire AI processor on a single dinner-plate-sized piece of silicon.
CompaniesSambaNova Systems
SambaNova is an AI hardware and software company whose Reconfigurable Dataflow chips and full-stack platform are built to run large AI models efficiently.
CompaniesCoreWeave
CoreWeave is a specialized cloud provider that rents out massive fleets of Nvidia GPUs for AI training and inference.
CompaniesIBM Granite Models
Granite is IBM's family of open, enterprise-focused AI models built for business tasks like coding, document understanding, and retrieval.
CompaniesNvidia Nemotron Models
Nemotron is Nvidia's family of open large language models, designed to showcase its hardware and to generate high-quality synthetic data for training other…
CompaniesFalcon Models
Falcon is a family of open large language models from the UAE's Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi.
CompaniesByteDance Doubao
Doubao is ByteDance's family of large language models and consumer AI assistant, built by the company behind TikTok and Douyin.
CompaniesYi Models by 01.AI
Yi is a family of open and commercial large language models from 01.AI, the Chinese startup founded by AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee.
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