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MODEL BUILDERS – Train the foundational AI models that power chatbots, agents, and other companies’ AI products

OpenAI – Est. 2015
The release of ChatGPT catapulted AI into the public consciousness. Now valued at $500 billion, the company continues to create leading models.

Meta – Est. 2004
The social media giant has spent billions on its Llama model series, which powers Meta AI and is found in Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Anthropic – Est. 2021
Anthropic has distinguished itself from competitors with its focus on safety. Its Claude models consistently rank among the best available.

xAI – Est. 2023
Elon Musk’s brainchild, xAI created the Grok model series — which has been integrated into X — and Grokipedia, an AI-generated Wikipedia competitor.

COMPUTING PROVIDERS – Assemble chips and other components into data centers, which other companies rent to run AI systems

Microsoft – Est. 1975
With a huge cloud-computing business (Azure), investments in OpenAI, and its own Copilot product suite, Microsoft wields immense influence in the industry.

Google – Est. 1998
Google operates across the AI stack. Its Gemini models are top tier, and supported by the company’s custom chips and cloud-computing business.

Oracle – Est. 1977
Once dismissed as a legacy database company, Oracle is now a key infrastructure partner to OpenAI, building data centers for the $500 billion Stargate initiative.

Amazon – Est. 1994
Amazon’s cloud-computing business, AWS, hosts AI workloads for thousands of companies worldwide. It also makes chips and is Anthropic’s top external investor.

CHIP BUILDERS – Make the specialized computer chips that model builders use to run their AI systems

Nvidia – Est. 1993
Nvidia designs AI chips used by more than 90% of the market. In Oct. 2025, it became the first company ever to reach a $5 trillion valuation.

AMD – Est. 1969
In Oct. 2025, OpenAI announced a deal to use chips from AMD, Nvidia’s main rival — an agreement that could give it up to a 10% stake in AMD’s $350 billion business.

TSMC – Est. 1987
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is the world’s leading contract chip manufacturer, fabricating almost all advanced chips used to train AI.

ASML – Est. 1984
As the world’s only supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, ASML, a Dutch company valued at more than $420 billion, is central to the AI supply chain.

– Tharin Pillay