AGI-focused startups

Ex-DeepMind founders building open frontier models and autonomous coding agents.

MIT spin-out building efficient non-Transformer Liquid Foundation Models.

Flagship Pioneering company building scientific superintelligence and autonomous labs.

Founded by OpenAI's former CTO; released the Tinker fine-tuning API.

Action models and computer-use agents.

Alphabet's AI drug-discovery company, co-developer of AlphaFold 3.

Open hybrid SSM models (Zamba) and multimodal agents.

AI scientists that run real experiments, starting with materials science.

Non-profit open research lab (Moshi speech model).

Conversational character platform; founders returned to Google in 2024.

State-space-model research lab; ships real-time voice models.

Thermodynamic computing hardware for probabilistic AI.

Built Pi; now focused on enterprise AI after its founders moved to Microsoft in 2024.

Active-inference agents (Genius platform); listed on Cboe Canada.

Founded by two Transformer paper authors; builds open models.

Foundation models for software development, aiming at AGI through code.

Says it has one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.

AGI lab built around program synthesis, from the creators of the ARC Prize.

John Carmack's AGI research company; Richard Sutton is a research partner.

Formerly Generally Intelligent; builds reasoning agents and tools for coding.

Agents that take actions in software; most of the founding team joined Amazon in 2024.

Long-context models aimed at automating software engineering.

AGI research company working on world models and embodied learning.

Neuroscience-based machine intelligence (Thousand Brains Project).

Category-theory approach to structured, interpretable reasoning models.

Non-profit research on general-purpose reasoning and world models.

Diffusion-based language models (Mercury).