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Analyze AI systems through rights, equity, governance, safety, and public-interest outcomes.
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Understand language models, retrieval, agents, evaluation, cost, and deployment safeguards through practical system design.
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Google Gemma
Gemma is Google's family of lightweight, open-weight AI models built from the same research and technology as Gemini.
CompaniesGPT-4 and GPT-4o
GPT-4 (2023) was OpenAI's breakthrough large multimodal model that could accept images as well as text, and GPT-4o (2024) made it faster, cheaper…
CompaniesCursor and Anysphere
Cursor is an AI-first code editor built by the startup Anysphere that turns natural-language instructions into working code edits across an entire codebase.
CompaniesReplit AI
Replit AI is a suite of AI coding features built into Replit, a browser-based development platform, letting anyone build and deploy software from a phone…
CompaniesGoogle DeepMind
Google DeepMind is Alphabet's flagship AI research lab, formed in 2023 by merging DeepMind with Google Brain.
CompaniesDeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company known for releasing high-performing open-weight large language models at a fraction of typical training costs.
CompaniesCharacter.AI
Character.AI is a consumer app where users chat with AI personas — from historical figures to original characters — built by founders who pioneered…
CompaniesInflection AI
Inflection AI built Pi, an empathetic personal-AI chatbot, and trained its own Inflection family of large language models.
CompaniesAI21 Labs
AI21 Labs is an Israeli AI company building large language models (the Jurassic and Jamba families) and enterprise tools, plus the consumer writing assistant…
CompaniesTogether AI
Together AI is a cloud platform built specifically for open-source AI, letting developers run, fine-tune, and train models like Llama and DeepSeek on fast…
CompaniesDatabricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a single 'lakehouse' foundation.
CompaniesScale AI
Scale AI is a company that supplies the high-quality labeled and curated data that powers modern AI models.
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