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Best Foundation Models AI Startups in United States

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Anthropic logo

Anthropic

US est. 2021

AI safety lab building Claude — a helpful, harmless, honest AI assistant.

Raised
$67.6B
Stage
S-G
82
OpenAI logo

OpenAI

US est. 2015

Creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the leading frontier AI lab.

Raised
$193.3B
Stage
S-E
80
Magic logo

Magic

US

Building frontier code models to automate software engineering and research.

Stage
GROWTH
80
Perplexity logo

Perplexity

US est. 2022

AI-powered answer engine delivering real-time, cited responses to complex queries.

Raised
$2.0B
Stage
S-F
76
Liquid AI logo

Liquid AI

US est. 2023

Efficient general-purpose foundation models built for edge, on-device, and cloud deployment at every scale.

Raised
$300M
Stage
S-B
75
Runway logo

Runway

US est. 2018

Applied AI research for video, image, and 3D.

Raised
$1.4B
Stage
S-E
64
Physical Intelligence logo

Physical Intelligence

Verified
US est. 2023

Foundation models for physical world AI

Raised
$735M
Stage
S-B
63
Skild AI logo

Skild AI

Verified
US est. 2023

Universal AI brain for any robot

Raised
$2.2B
Stage
S-C
60
Safe Superintelligence logo

Safe Superintelligence

Verified
US est. 2024

Building safe superintelligence

Raised
$3B
Stage
S-B
59
Together AI logo

Together AI

Verified
US est. 2022

The open AI cloud

Raised
$267.5M
Stage
S-C
56
Writer logo

Writer

Verified
US est. 2020

Full-stack generative AI for enterprise

Raised
$321M
Stage
S-C
56
Character.AI logo

Character.AI

US est. 2021

Chat with millions of user-created AI characters.

Raised
$150M
Stage
S-A
55
Fireworks AI logo

Fireworks AI

Verified
US est. 2022

Production-grade generative AI serving

Raised
$285M
Stage
S-C
55
Groq logo

Groq

Verified
US est. 2016

Fastest AI inference on the planet

Raised
$2.3B
Stage
S-E
53
Poolside logo

Poolside

Verified
US est. 2023

AI platform for software engineering

Raised
$500M
Stage
S-B
52
Hume AI logo

Hume AI

Verified
US est. 2021

Empathic AI voice and emotion intelligence

Raised
$73.9M
Stage
S-B
52
Reka AI logo

Reka AI

Verified
US est. 2022

Multimodal AI models for the enterprise

Raised
$180M
Stage
S-B
51
Cerebras Systems logo

Cerebras Systems

Verified
US est. 2016

Wafer-scale AI chips for unprecedented speed

Raised
$2.5B
Stage
S-G
51
Crusoe logo

Crusoe

Verified
US est. 2018

Sustainable AI cloud infrastructure

Raised
$1.4B
Stage
S-E
50
Luma AI logo

Luma AI

Verified
US est. 2021

Dream Machine — the world's most realistic AI video

Raised
$54M
Stage
S-B
50
Replicate logo

Replicate

Verified
US est. 2019

Run AI models in the cloud

Raised
$88M
Stage
S-B
47
Tavus logo

Tavus

US est. 2020

AI video personalization platform

Raised
$24.4M
Stage
S-A
46
SambaNova logo

SambaNova

US

The fastest AI inference platform, purpose-built for agentic AI with custom dataflow technology and three-tier memory architecture.

Stage
S-E
14
Snorkel AI logo

Snorkel AI

US

Snorkel AI helps frontier labs and AI teams develop specialized training data and environments to differentiate their models and agents.

14