AI Company Database

> Tracking the billionaires and their machines. Know your enemy.

> Filter by tags:

> 35 companies found

> Featured Companies

Featured

> Meta (AI Research)

Meta's AI division creating LLaMA, image generation tools, and AI systems. Uses Facebook and Instagram user data, along with scraped web content.

CEO: Mark Zuckerberg

Founded: 2004

Valuation: $1T+

llmimage generationsurveillancedata scrapinglayoffsbillionaire ownedmajor player
Featured

> Google (AI Division)

Google's AI division responsible for Gemini, Bard, and other AI systems. One of the largest data scrapers on the internet, using YouTube, Google Books, and web content without proper consent.

CEO: Sundar Pichai

Founded: 1998

Valuation: $1.5T+

llmimage generationchatbotsurveillancedata scrapinglayoffsbillionaire ownedmajor player
Featured

> Midjourney

AI image generation company that creates images from text prompts. Trained on millions of images scraped without permission from artists worldwide.

CEO: David Holz

Founded: 2022

image generationdata scrapingcontroversymajor player
Featured

> Anthropic

AI safety company founded by former OpenAI employees. Created Claude AI. Despite "safety" branding, still trains on scraped data and competes with human creators.

CEO: Dario Amodei

Founded: 2021

Valuation: $18B

llmchatbotdata scrapingbillionaire ownedmajor player
Featured
OpenAI logo

> OpenAI

The company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and other AI systems. Founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others. Known for massive data scraping without consent, displacing creative workers, and aggressive commercialization of stolen content.

CEO: Sam Altman

Founded: 2015

Valuation: $80B+

llmimage generationcode generationchatbotdata scrapingcontroversybillionaire ownedmajor player

> All Companies

> Perplexity AI

AI search engine. Facing lawsuits from Reddit and Cloudflare for aggressive data scraping, bypassing robots.txt and paywalls.

CEO: Aravind Srinivas

Founded: 2022

Valuation: $3B+

llmchatbotdata scrapingcontroversybillionaire owned

> Character.AI

AI chatbot platform for character conversations. Trained on scraped data, enables harassment and problematic content.

CEO: Noam Shazeer

Founded: 2021

Valuation: $1B+

llmchatbotdata scrapingcontroversy

> Pika Labs

AI video generation startup. Trained on scraped content, competing with human video creators.

Founded: 2023

Valuation: $500M+

image generationautomationdata scraping

> Jasper AI

AI writing tool for marketing. Trained on scraped content, displacing copywriters and content creators.

CEO: Dave Rogenmoser

Founded: 2021

Valuation: $1.5B+

llmautomationdata scrapinglayoffs

> Copy.ai

AI copywriting platform. Trained on scraped content, automating writing jobs.

CEO: Paul Yacoubian

Founded: 2020

Valuation: $500M+

llmautomationdata scraping

> Scale AI

AI data labeling and training services. Uses low-wage workers to train AI systems that replace higher-wage workers. Exploitative labor practices.

CEO: Alexandr Wang

Founded: 2016

Valuation: $14B+

automationdata scrapingcontroversybillionaire owned

> DataRobot

Automated machine learning platform. Enables companies to automate data science jobs without ML expertise.

CEO: Debanjan Saha

Founded: 2012

Valuation: $1B+

automationdata scrapinglayoffs

> Clarifai

Computer vision and image recognition AI. Uses scraped images, surveillance applications.

CEO: Matt Zeiler

Founded: 2013

Valuation: $100M+

image generationsurveillancedata scraping

> OnomaAI

AI-driven content creation, responsible for large scale web-scraping of digital illustrations, the birthplace of the Illustrious image model.

CEO: Min Song

image generationdata scraping

> Fal.ai

A generative media platform for running open source image/video/audio/3D models.

CEO: Burkay Gur

image generation

> ElevenLabs

AI voice cloning and text-to-speech. Enables deepfakes, voice cloning without consent. Used for harassment and fraud.

CEO: Mati Staniszewski

Founded: 2022

Valuation: $1.1B+

automationdata scrapingcontroversy

> Inflection AI

Created Pi chatbot. Microsoft-backed, trained on scraped data.

CEO: Mustafa Suleyman

Founded: 2022

Valuation: $4B+

llmchatbotdata scrapingbillionaire owned

> Cohere

Enterprise LLM company. Trains on scraped data, competes with OpenAI for business customers.

CEO: Aidan Gomez

Founded: 2019

Valuation: $2.2B+

llmchatbotdata scrapingbillionaire owned

> Mistral AI

French AI company, open-source LLMs. Still trains on scraped data despite "open" branding.

CEO: Arthur Mensch

Founded: 2023

Valuation: $6B+

llmdata scrapingbillionaire owned

> ByteDance (TikTok)

TikTok's AI recommendation algorithms. Massive surveillance, data collection, AI-powered content manipulation. Chinese-owned.

CEO: Shou Zi Chew

Founded: 2012

Valuation: $220B+

automationsurveillancedata scrapingcontroversymajor player

> xAI

Elon Musk's AI company. Grok chatbot, competing with OpenAI. Trained on scraped data including Twitter/X content.

CEO: Elon Musk

Founded: 2023

Valuation: $24B+

llmchatbotdata scrapingcontroversybillionaire owned

> Adobe

Firefly AI image generation, Sensei AI. Trained on scraped images from artists without consent. Facing lawsuits from creators.

CEO: Shantanu Narayen

Founded: 1982

Valuation: $250B+

image generationllmdata scrapingcontroversybillionaire ownedmajor player

> Salesforce

Einstein AI, CRM automation tools. Uses scraped data, automates sales jobs. Multiple rounds of layoffs.

CEO: Marc Benioff

Founded: 1999

Valuation: $250B+

llmchatbotautomationdata scrapingbillionaire ownedmajor playerlayoffs

> IBM

Watson AI platform, enterprise AI services. Long history of automation and layoffs. Used AI to replace workers.

CEO: Arvind Krishna

Founded: 1911

Valuation: $150B+

llmchatbotautomationsurveillancedata scrapingbillionaire ownedmajor playerlayoffs

> Apple

Siri, Apple Intelligence, machine learning features across devices. Scrapes user data, contracts with AI companies. Major surveillance via device ecosystem.

CEO: Tim Cook

Founded: 1976

Valuation: $3T+

llmchatbotautomationsurveillancedata scrapingbillionaire ownedmajor playercontroversy

> Amazon

AWS AI services, Alexa, Amazon Bedrock (LLM platform), uses customer data and scraped content. Massive surveillance via Ring, Alexa devices. Significant AI-related layoffs.

CEO: Andy Jassy

Founded: 1994

Valuation: $1.5T+

llmchatbotautomationsurveillancedata scrapingbillionaire ownedmajor playerlayoffs

> Microsoft

Major investor in OpenAI, creator of GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot (Bing Chat), Azure AI services. Uses scraped code and web data without consent. Major contributor to AI automation displacing workers.

CEO: Satya Nadella

Founded: 1975

Valuation: $3T+

llmcode generationchatbotautomationdata scrapingbillionaire ownedmajor playerlayoffscontroversy

> X (Twitter)

Owned by Elon Musk. Grok AI chatbot, AI recommendation algorithms. Promotes white supremacist content, reinstated nazis. Uses scraped data.

CEO: Elon Musk

Founded: 2006

llmchatbotautomationsurveillancedata scrapingcontroversybillionaire ownedmajor player

> Runway

AI video generation (Gen-2, Gen-3). Trained on scraped video content without consent. Competing with human video creators.

CEO: Cristóbal Valenzuela

Founded: 2018

Valuation: $1.5B+

image generationautomationdata scrapingcontroversy

> Notion

Productivity platform with AI features. Uses OpenAI, scrapes user data. Automating knowledge work.

CEO: Ivan Zhao

Founded: 2016

Valuation: $10B+

llmautomationdata scrapingbillionaire owned

> Hugging Face

AI model hosting platform. Distributes models trained on scraped data, enables easy deployment of problematic AI systems.

CEO: Clément Delangue

Founded: 2016

Valuation: $4.5B+

llmdata scrapingmajor player

> Unity (AI division)

Unity game engine with AI tools. Automating game development jobs, trained on scraped game assets.

CEO: Jim Whitehurst

Founded: 2004

automationdata scrapinglayoffscontroversy

> Roblox

Gaming platform with AI content generation. Automating game creation, displacing developers.

CEO: David Baszucki

Founded: 2004

Valuation: $25B+

automationdata scrapingbillionaire owned

> NVIDIA

NVIDIA is a semiconductor company that designs GPUs and AI hardware.

CEO: Jensen Huang

Founded: 1993

Valuation: $3+ trillion

llmmajor playercontroversydata scrapingbillionaire owned

> Stability AI

Creator of Stable Diffusion, an open-source image generation model. Despite being "open", still trained on scraped data without consent.

CEO: Emad Mostaque

Founded: 2020

image generationllmdata scrapingcontroversy