The AI landscape is vast, and it changes every week.
New models, new tools, new names land constantly. Most of it is noise; some of it changes what we'd recommend to you. Keeping track is our job, not yours.
Strip away the noise and it's six layers.
Every company our work touches.
Not a logo wall. These are the platforms we evaluate, deploy, and recommend from. We're not paid by any of them, so the list answers to your problem, not a partnership.
Builds general-purpose models for chat, coding, and images, for consumers and via API.
Builds the Claude model family, with products for chat, autonomous work, coding, and API access.
Builds multimodal models and AI tools across consumer apps, developer APIs, and research.
Builds the Grok model family for chat, image and video generation, voice, and developer APIs.
Builds enterprise models and a secure agent platform, with a retrieval and multilingual focus.
Releases the open-weight Llama models and open vision tools, runnable and fine-tunable by anyone.
European lab that releases open-weight models alongside hosted chat, coding, and developer platforms.
Chinese lab releasing open-weight language and reasoning models, with a free chat app and API.
Alibaba's open-weight model family spanning text, multimodal, and coding, with a chat platform and API.
Chinese lab releasing the open-weight Kimi models, with a chat app, agents, and a developer API.
Copilot assistants across Microsoft 365, GitHub, and Windows, built on the Azure cloud.
AI answer engine with a web browser, a desktop agent, and a developer search API.
AI code editor with autonomous agents, inline completion, and automated code review.
Open-source autonomous agent operated through chat, running tasks on your own machine.
Maker of the Devin autonomous software engineer and the Windsurf agentic code editor.
Autonomous agent that plans and completes multi-step research and web tasks on its own.
Browser platform that turns prompts into deployed apps, with hosting built in.
AI builder that generates and hosts full web apps from plain-language prompts.
Open-source frameworks for building LLM agents, plus a hosted platform for tracing, evals, and deployment.
Open-source framework and hosted platform for document parsing and retrieval over complex data.
Open-source framework for orchestrating multi-agent systems, with a hosted management platform.
Type-safe Python agent framework from the Pydantic team, paired with the Logfire observability platform.
Text-to-image and image-to-video generation, used through its web app and Discord.
AI video generation and in-context video editing for film and production work.
Image-generation models offered both as a hosted API and as open weights for self-hosting.
Voice synthesis, conversational voice agents, and audio tools, via apps and an API.
AI avatar video, multilingual video translation, and an API for programmatic video.
AI image and video generation with camera-motion control, plus lip-sync and marketing tools.
Text- and image-to-video generation with synced audio, built by the Chinese company Kuaishou.
Video and 3D generation; its Dream Machine app turns text and images into video.
Supplies the chips, software platforms, and open models that AI systems are built and run on.
Cloud platform with managed model APIs, ML training infrastructure, and custom AI chips.
Repository and platform for open models, datasets, and demos, with hosted inference.
Inference provider running open-weight models on its own LPU hardware, in the cloud or on-prem.
Cloud platform for running, fine-tuning, and hosting open-weight models on managed GPUs.
Cloud platform for running open-weight models via API, with an open-source packaging tool.
Frontend cloud with a TypeScript AI SDK, a multi-provider model gateway, and AI dev tools.
Runs open-weight models locally via a CLI and local API, with an optional hosted service.
Desktop app for discovering and running local models, with a headless server, CLI, and SDKs.
This page has an expiry date, by design.
We re-check every entry each quarter. Tools ship, tools get discontinued, and our recommendations move with them. When something shuts down it comes off, usually the same week we notice.
A map of the AI world is only worth anything if it's current. Keeping this one current is part of the daily work, not a favor we do the website.
You don't need to know all of this. You need someone who does.
That's the job. We track the landscape so you can make one good decision at a time. Book a call and tell us what you're weighing.