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Magic AI Long-Context Code Models
Magic AI builds frontier code-generation models distinguished by extremely long context windows, letting a model read an entire codebase at once.
CompaniesRecursion Pharmaceuticals AI
Recursion Pharmaceuticals runs one of the world's largest automated biology labs, generating petabytes of cellular images to let machine learning models map…
CompaniesIsomorphic Labs Drug Discovery
Isomorphic Labs is the Alphabet/DeepMind spinout turning the AlphaFold breakthrough into an AI-first drug design engine.
CompaniesInsitro Machine Learning Biology
Insitro fuses large-scale human genetic and cellular data with machine learning to find better drug targets and the patients most likely to respond.
CompaniesWhat Is a Liquid Foundation Model? Liquid AI LFM Guide
What is a liquid foundation model? Learn how Liquid AI's non-Transformer LFMs work, use less memory, and differ from standard AI architectures.
CompaniesReka AI Multimodal Models
Reka AI is a research company building natively multimodal models that understand text, images, video, and audio together.
CompaniesSakana AI Evolutionary Model Merging
Sakana AI is a Tokyo-based lab that applies nature-inspired methods to AI, most notably using evolutionary algorithms to merge existing open models into new…
CompaniesAugment Code
Augment Code is an AI coding platform built specifically for large, real-world codebases, not toy demos.
CompaniesSierra AI Customer Experience Agents
Sierra is a company founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor that builds branded AI agents to handle customer service for businesses.
CompaniesDecagon Support Agents
Decagon builds AI support agents that companies use to automate customer service conversations at scale.
CompaniesMistral Large and Codestral
Mistral AI is a Paris-based lab whose Mistral Large is a flagship general-purpose model and Codestral is a specialized code-generation model.
CompaniesVercel v0 and AI SDK
Vercel, the company behind Next.js, built v0 (an AI that generates UI from text prompts) and the AI SDK (a TypeScript toolkit for adding AI features to apps).
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