OpenAI: Pioneering the development of powerful, general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and advanced image generators like DALL-E, while emphasizing the path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Founder(s): Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and others
Headoffice: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Year of start: 2015
Products:
ChatGPT
Sora
DALL-E 3
OpenArt: A platform aggregating diverse generative AI models (including DALL-E and Stable Diffusion) to offer comprehensive text-to-image and editing tools for creative professionals.
Founder(s): Coco Mao, John Qiao
Headoffice: Redwood City, California, U.S.
Year of start: 2022
Alphabet (Google): Developing its own advanced, multimodal Gemini AI family and foundational AI hardware like Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to power its products and cloud services.
Founder(s): Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Headoffice: Mountain View, California, U.S. (Googleplex)
Year of Start: 2015 (as Alphabet, Google started in 1998)
Products:
Antigravity
DeepMind
FLOW
Gemini 3 Pro / Google AI Studio
Gemma
Google Antigravity
Nana Banana Pro
Veo 3.1
Vertex AI Studio
Whisk
Microsoft / OpenAI: A deep, strategic partnership where Microsoft provides the massive Azure cloud computing infrastructure necessary for training OpenAI's frontier models and integrates them across its entire product ecosystem (e.g., Copilot).
Founder(s): Bill Gates, Paul Allen (for Microsoft)
Headoffice: Redmond, Washington, U.S. (Microsoft)
Year of Start: 1975 (for Microsoft)
Products:
Copilot