Trailblazers

Trailblazers

Trailblazers are the tech leaders executing, building, and deploying cutting edge technology for their users. They’ve pushed out usable products, grown user bases, and driven activity in their field.  Our top 25 AI Trailblazers are displayed in no particular order and were selected from a pool of over 500 leading AI companies based on two factors: data from our Spryte Technology Index, an open and data-driven company ranking system, and the opinion of a panel of industry experts.

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TECH.LEAD | NVIDIA Corporation

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NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence computing, graphics processing units (GPUs), and gaming platforms. NVIDIA invented the GPU in 1999 and has since been a leader in developing technologies for high-performance computing, gaming, creative design, autonomous vehicles, and robotics1. NVIDIA also offers drivers, software, and tools for its products and platforms2. Some of the popular products and platforms of NVIDIA are GeForce, TITAN, NVIDIA RTX, Data Center, GRID, and NVIDIA Shield3. NVIDIA’s vision is to power the future of computing with AI and GPUs.

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TECH.LEAD | OpenAI

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OpenAI is a U.S. based artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in December 2015, researching artificial intelligence with the goal of developing "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence, which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". As one of the leading organizations of the AI Spring, it has developed several large language models, advanced image generation models, and previously, released open-source models. Its release of ChatGPT has been credited with starting the artificial intelligence spring.

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TECH.LEAD | Darktrace plc

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Darktrace plc

Darktrace is a global leader in cyber security artificial intelligence, providing innovative solutions to protect over 8,100 organizations worldwide. Their Self Learning Enterprise Immune System technology detects and interrupts cyber attacks, includin...

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TECH.LEAD | Boston Dynamics

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Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation.

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TECH.LEAD | Hugging Face Inc

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Hugging Face Inc

Hugging Face is an AI community that aims to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. They provide a platform for the machine learning community to collaborate on models, datasets, and applications. Users ca...

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TECH.LEAD | Midjourney

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Midjourney

An independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.

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TECH.LEAD | vectara

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Vectara is an end-to-end Retrieval Augmented Generation as-a-Service (RAGaaS) platform that empowers product builders to embed powerful Generative AI features into their applications with extraordinary results. Built on a solid hybrid search core, Vectara delivers the shortest path to an answer or action through a safe, secure, and trusted entry point.

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TECH.LEAD | Tesla

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Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy with electric cars, solar and integrated renewable energy solutions for homes and businesses.

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TECH.LEAD | Zilliz

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Zilliz builds vector database, the world’s most advanced vector similarity search engine, to accelerate development of next generation data fabric. Milvus is currently an incubation-stage project at the LF AI & Data Foundation, and is capable of managi...

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TECH.LEAD | Caper

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Caper AI is a software technology company that develops and deploys AI-powered automated checkout devices as well as AI-based software applications for retailers, grocers, convenience stores and other general merchandising store formats.

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TECH.LEAD | Explosion

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Explosion

Explosion is a software company specializing in developer tools for Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. We’re the makers of spaCy, one of the leading open-source libraries for advanced NLP.

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TECH.LEAD | Activ Surgical

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Activ Surgical

ActivEdge™ - Hardware-agnostic surgical software that allows minimally invasive surgical systems to autonomously collaborate with surgeons.

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TECH.LEAD | eMed UK

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eMed UK

Our mission is to democratise healthcare through our market-leading digital-first primary care service and chronic healthcare management solutions. Whether through our private 24/7 primary care service, or GP at Hand, the largest UK GP practice as part of the NHS family, or our partnerships with companies like Bupa, we give our members a better way to access the care they need, from wherever they are.

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TECH.LEAD | Captionhealth

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Captionhealth

Caption Health is a company that leverages artificial intelligence and ultrasound to detect disease early, with a focus on cardiovascular disease.

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TECH.LEAD | Curaihealth

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Curaihealth

Stay healthy from home. Affordable primary care designed around you. Get healthier with a doctor who works with you every step of the way.

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TECH.LEAD | Ibex

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Ibex Medical Analytics develops AI-driven clinical decision support tools that help pathologists deliver more efficient, objective, and accurate cancer diagnosis. Their Galen™ platform uses artificial intelligence, data science, image analysis, and mac...

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TECH.LEAD | Navina

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TECH.LEAD | Waystar

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Waystar is a healthcare technology company that provides revenue cycle management solutions. Their cloud-based software automates various processes in the healthcare revenue cycle, including authorizations, claims, and appeals. By simplifying healthcar...

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TECH.LEAD | Pachyderm

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Pachyderm

Data Lineage with End-to-End Pipelines on Kubernetes, engineered for the enterprise. And… It’s open source!

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TECH.LEAD | MosaicML

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MosaicML

MosaicML is a startup and community on a mission to make Machine Learning Training efficient for everyone. Learn more at https://t.co/b2uifH7TXv and join us!

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TECH.LEAD | Gen Digital

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Gen Digital

Gen™ is a global leader in cybersecurity. Explore our trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, and CCleaner. Gen™ is a global company powering Digital Freedom to millions of users through a family of tr...

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TECH.LEAD | SentinelOne

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SentinelOne

SentinelOne is a pioneer in delivering autonomous security for the endpoint, datacenter and cloud environments to help organizations secure their assets with speed and simplicity. SentinelOne unifies prevention, detection, response, remediation and forensics in a single platform powered by artificial intelligence

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TECH.LEAD | Run

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Run:AI is an AI virtualization layer for deep learning. Run:AI optimizes your AI infrastructure, enabling full utilization of GPU resources.

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TECH.LEAD | Aifi

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AiFi offers fully customized, AI powered retail solutions to help retailers of all sizes become fully autonomous. Discover our flexible solutions.

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TECH.LEAD | Standard Cognition

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Standard Cognition

AI-Powered Autonomous Checkout. Enabling autonomous checkout for brick & mortar retailers with our modern AI-powered computer vision platform. Just grab and go!

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