Top 75 Generative AI Companies & Startups

OpenAI

OpenAI is the highest profile company in the generative AI space. Along with its prebuilt AI solutions, OpenAI also offers API and application development support for developers who want to use its models as baselines. Its close partnership with Microsoft and growing commitment to ethical AI continue to boost its reputation and reach. Most recently, the company has introduced text-to-video tool Sora to its portfolio.

Anthropic

Anthropic’s Claude platform is similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, with its large language model and content generation focus. First released widely in March 2023, Claude is viewed as a more customizable platform with a more friendly and human-like chatbot experience. Since its initial start, Claude has evolved into an enterprise-level AI assistant with high-level conversational AI capabilities, a large context window, and an API that allows users to build custom instances of Claude into their products.

Cohere

Cohere offers natural language processing (NLP) solutions that are specifically designed to support business operations. With Cohere’s conversational AI agent, enterprise users can quickly search for and retrieve all kinds of company information without searching through massive applications and databases. The organization’s different families of language models can be used for business tasks like document analysis, content writing (including for product descriptions), semantic search, and improved internal and external e-commerce experiences.

Glean

Glean is a generative AI enterprise search company that relies on deep-learning models to understand natural language queries in the context of organizational, departmental, and individual user characteristics. Glean connects to a variety of enterprise apps and platforms, making it easier to set up and maintain access to various business information sources. With its focus on AI privacy and governance, small businesses and enterprises alike are investing in this solution for enterprise knowledge management.

Jasper

Jasper’s core product is designed for marketing content generation. Some core areas where Jasper works well include social media, advertising, blog, email, and website content creation. The AI tool is particularly effective for establishing a consistent brand voice and managing digital marketing campaigns. In early 2024, Jasper acquired the AI image platform Clickdrop, and expects to increase its multimodal capabilities as a result of this acquisition.

Hugging Face

Hugging Face is a community forum, similar to GitHub, that focuses on Artificial Intelligence and ML model development and deployment. Some of the community’s main specialties include text classification, question answering, image classification, translation, summarization, audio classification, and object detection. Most notably, Hugging Face offers users access to BLOOM, an open-source LLM that can generate content in 46 languages and 13 programming languages.

Inflection AI

Founded by former leaders from LinkedIn and DeepMind in 2022, Inflection AI’s mission and goals were mostly kept under wraps until Pi, a personal AI tool that focuses on colloquial conversation and advice, was released in May 2023. Even before its initial release, the company had already received major funding rounds and indicated its plans to completely transform how humans can speak to and communicate with computers.

Most recently, two of Inflection’s co-founders—Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan—have left the company to work in a new AI division at Microsoft. In light of this change, the company announced a new CEO and plans to focus more heavily on offering an AI studio business so more users can access and customize their models.

Stability AI

Stability AI is a leading startup in the generative AI space for image and video content generation. Though the company has endured some controversy for alleged copyright infringement of artists’ work as well as for some possible financial instability, its app Stable Diffusion continues to be a popular solution, operating in the background of many other generative AI startups’ platforms.

MOSTLY AI

MOSTLY AI’s synthetic data generation platform balances data democratization and app development efficiencies with data anonymity and security requirements. The platform has proven especially useful in the banking, insurance, and telecommunications industries. It is also compatible with many different operational environments, including for Kubernetes deployment, OpenShift deployment, and API and Python Client connectivity.

Lightricks

Lightricks first gained notoriety with its social-media-friendly image editing app, Facetune. It has since expanded Facetune and its other apps with cutting-edge AI, making it possible to conceptualize, generate, and edit new content and avatars for videos, photos, and art projects, all from one AI-driven platform.

AI21 Labs

AI21 Labs creates enterprise tools that focus heavily on contextual natural language processing for reading, writing, and application development. Third-party developers can build on AI21 Labs’ language models for their own text-based apps and services with AI21 Studio. Its recent emphasis on task-specific APIs makes it easier for businesses to ideate and scale industry-specific and business-specific models with little to no prompt engineering or fine-tuning necessary.

Tabnine

Tabnine offers generative AI code assistance for software development. The parts of the development process it helps with include planning, creating, testing, fixing, documenting, and even explaining. The platform’s focus on code completion and natural language prompts makes it extremely helpful for novice and experienced coders alike. Many users select this tool for both its robust coding features and its built-in security and governance features.

Mistral AI

Mistral AI is an AI company that offers deployment-ready solutions like the chatbot le Chat but is more focused on providing its customers with open generative AI models and other developer-friendly resources for scalable AI. Mistral model access comes in various sizes, meaning users can prioritize affordable and lightweight agility or scalable and high-powered performance.

Codeium

Codeium is a generative AI company that provides coders, programmers, and even less-technical users with resources to generate logical code for their projects. Autocompletion is an option, but users can also engage with Codeium through chat and gain more contextual knowledge for why code looks a certain way or how it could be optimized. Codeium can be experimented with in the playground environment, and it can also be used on a wide range of IDEs.

Clarifai

Clarifai’s multipurpose platform offers resources to build, deploy, and manage AI and the data that goes into it throughout the full lifecycle. The solution can be used to label and otherwise prepare data for projects, and from there, users can build and operationalize models in various formats and environments, including in serverless and edge versions. Clarifai is best known for its computer vision, generative AI foundation model, and NLP solutions; however, it also offers a range of professional services to customers.

Gong

Gong gives revenue teams a full-service revenue intelligence solution that uses generative AI and other advanced features to support revenue forecasting, customer service engagement, conversational analytics, sales coaching, and more. The company offers a wide range of enterprise-level features, including the Gong partner network and a high-powered Trust Center for security and compliance management. Among its customers are ADT, LinkedIn, Shopify, and ZIllow.

Twain

Twain is an AI writing assistant designed to help sales professionals write attention-grabbing sales content—particularly outreach emails. It can generate its own content and also make detailed recommendations for edits to content that a salesperson submits. While it is primarily used for sales content generation, it also works well for recruiting and personal use cases.

Bertha.ai

Bertha.ai is a content generation solution for WordPress users in particular, though it also works with sites like Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, and Squarespace. It can help with creating written content and imagery for blog posts and other webpages as well as other forms of digital marketing copy.

Tome

Tome is a creative generative AI platform that was established by two former Meta managers that has quickly gained recognition for its versatile and intuitive interface. The founders’ goal was to create a fun tool that fills in some of the gaps left by tools like PowerPoint, especially when it comes to mobile usability. Trained on your value framework and sales data, Tome helps you research your target customers and then generates both relevant and somewhat randomized content for users’ presentations, acting as a business partner, assistant, or trusted friend who helps to brainstorm the best possible content for the project.

CopyAI

CopyAI takes on the unique role of creating generative AI for go-to-market workflows and strategizing, giving users the technology necessary to more intelligently attract, land, adopt, retain, and expand their reach. The platform is most often used by marketing and sales professionals to help them work through their GTM processes more quickly and smoothly. CopyAI can be used to translate content for a multilingual or global audience, generate blog and social media content, and create the content and structure necessary for a successful email marketing campaign.

Narrative BI

Narrative BI is building a new chapter in data democratization. The goal of this gen AI platform is to turn data, business intelligence, and analytics into narratives that are easier for all users to understand and contextualize within their roles and the greater frame of the business. With this approach, all employees can more effectively contribute to decision-making wherever important business data lives, including in and through a long list of applications, ranging from Google Analytics 4 to Facebook Ads to LinkedIn Ads. Also integrated are Salesforce, Slack, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

Anyword

Anyword is a generative AI writing solution that focuses specifically on marketing and other business outcomes. Users can optimize existing content for better performance, personalize messaging on their websites at scale, and train AI to understand their brand’s voice and target audience. With features like a predicted performance score and the ability to use Anyword within other tools—including ChatGPT, Notion, and HubSpot—users can improve their content with minimal hassle.

Synthesia

Synthesia is a generative AI video company that focuses on video creation for personal and enterprise use. Users can rely on AI avatars and voices to communicate in training, marketing, and how-to videos in 120 different languages. Most significantly, professional-looking videos can be generated from users’ text inputs.

Midjourney

Midjourney is a generative AI solution for image and artwork creation that primarily gives users access to its features and community support through Discord. Though Midjourney has faced some of the same controversies as Stability AI, the company continues to grow its capabilities and user base. It is particularly well known for its advanced and granular image editing features.

MURF.AI

MURF.AI is a leading voice AI generation company that is frequently praised for the quality of its multilingual voices as well as for its solutions’ ease of use. Murf comes with various third-party integrations that are relevant for creative content production. It also provides users with supportive resources and how-to guides for a diverse range of content types, including Spotify ads, L&D training, animation, video games, podcasts, and marketing and sales videos.

PlayHT

PlayHT is a leading AI voice generation company that has gone beyond the purview of most of its competitors to develop solutions like enterprise-specific AI voice agents and AI-generated podcast.ai, a subsidiary of PlayHT that offers a weekly podcast created with generative AI voices and transcripts. The podcast covers a different topic each week and has even used Steve Jobs recordings and biographical information to “record an episode with him.”

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is both an AI research firm and the producer of AI voice generation technology for personal and business use. It is frequently praised for its audio quality as well as its enterprise-level scalability and reasonable pricing structure. The company reached official unicorn status in January 2024, with an estimated value of $1.1 billion.

Colossyan

Colossyan is a leading competitor in the AI video generation space because its product includes several ways for users to create high-quality corporate training videos with no actors or scripting necessary. Customization is a core part of this solution, and the AI assistant is a helpful resource for users who want support in content creation.

AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI is a unique generative AI company that focuses on speech AI modeling, specifically for transforming speech to text after important conversations and recordings, like calls, video meetings, and podcasts. The tool includes several enterprise-ready features, including strong sentiment analysis capabilities and PII redaction. Most recently, the company released Universal-1, a multilingual speech recognition model that apparently surpasses Whisper-3 in performance accuracy and speed.

Plask

Plask creates technology to make animation easier and more cost-effective. The tool can be used to create animated or hyper-realistic 3D motion videos. It automates the entire process of creating designs and movement. This type of automated animation is certainly the leading edge of a larger trend, as AI influences movie and TV production by allowing faster, cheaper episode creation.

LOVO

LOVO is a video and voice AI generation company that offers most of its features through a comprehensive platform called Genny. It’s a solid contender for users who need a platform with high-quality features for both voice and video, as well as built-in features for AI art generation and AI writing.

DeepBrain AI

DeepBrain AI is an AI video generation company that is moving rapidly upward toward mainstream adoption. It includes many of the video features you would expect from generative AI video—AI avatars, AI voices, templates, and video editing tools, for example—but it takes things a step further with truly interactive conversational avatars. 

Its AI Humans solution is currently taking the world by storm, with recent reports indicating that certain governments are investing in this technology to create virtual assistants for their bureaucracies, and others are investing in this technology to support communication needs for ALS patients and others with disabilities.

Elai.io

Elai.io provides AI video generation tools to users of all backgrounds, but its emphasis is on business and enterprise audiences. Built-in collaborative features include interactive storyboarding, customizable brand kits, and API power to support custom and scalable use cases. While Elai.io is a new competitor in a marketplace that’s becoming crowded, its emphasis on the lucrative enterprise AI market gives it an edge.

Sudowrite

Sudowrite is a creative tool offered by a generative AI startup that provides AI support for writers and authors. With this platform, users can flesh out an existing outline, expand on their current story, bounce ideas off the intelligent agent, or take other steps to expand their creative stories—including with images. Though this is a controversial platform, especially among creatives, several users have commented on the impressive nature of Sudowrite’s capabilities.

Tavus

Tavus is a generative AI company that creates new versions of videos that users have already created based on specific viewer qualities and other personalization requirements. The foundational template videos that users create give Tavus enough material to generate believable audio and visuals for future videos on different topics, making it possible to record only one video and send custom messages to each of your contacts.

Hippocratic AI

Hippocratic AI takes a unique and much-needed approach to AI healthcare software, offering a foundation model and comprehensive resources for managing patient care and relationships. The platform is designed to follow Health Information Privacy (HIPAA) and other ethical expectations for healthcare, with AI healthcare agents that have been scored and reviewed by nurses and healthcare professionals. Most recently, Hippocratic AI has received funding from and started a partnership with NVIDIA, so expect this platform to scale quickly in the coming months.

Paige AI

Paige AI uses generative AI to optimize cancer diagnostics and pathology, using AI to research on topics like tissue response. The platform currently specializes in breast cancer and prostate cancer diagnoses but also offers other diagnostic resources for oncology professionals, hospitals, and labs.

Iambic Therapeutics

Iambic Therapeutics, previously known as Entos, is a company made up of top scientists, biotechnology professionals, and machine learning experts who are working to optimize drug discovery and therapeutics in oncology and other challenging fields. Their pipeline therapeutics has several different candidates in early-phase trials right now or scheduled for the coming months. The company has also patented or contributed to several AI-driven computational processes for drug discovery, all of which are part of its flagship platform.

Insilico Medicine

Insilico Medicine is a pharmaceutical research and development startup that uses generative AI and machine learning to create more efficient processes across biology, chemistry, and analytics. It’s focused on reducing the time and cost of drug development, particularly in areas such as immunology, oncology, central nervous system disorders, and fibrosis.

Etcembly

Etcembly is a company that is improving T-cell receptor immunotherapies with its machine-learning platform, EMLy. The platform sifts through complex TCR patterns and datasets to discover and identify personalized TCR therapeutic options for patients. Near the end of 2023, the company also developed what it touts as the world’s first immunotherapy drug designed through generative AI.

Biomatter

Biomatter uses its Intelligent Architecture platform to design and develop proteins for health and sustainable manufacturing. It also goes beyond more traditional human protein expectations and supports use cases across molecular biology, food and beverage, biotherapeutics, and agriculture projects.

Activ Surgical

Activ Surgical uses intraoperative surgical intelligence to give surgeons real-time information and better visuals during surgery. With some of the company’s most recent developments, surgeons can also perform surgeries with the help of augmented reality overlays.

Kaliber Labs

Kaliber Labs focuses on developing AI-powered surgical software for arthroscopic surgery needs. The company also provides solutions, such as Rekap, to help patients and other members of the surgical team get the analytics and other information they need more seamlessly.

Osmo

Osmo, founded in 2023 as a spinout from Google Research, uses machine learning and has created a map of odors and scents to help computers predict how something smells based on its molecular structure. From there, the company has begun working on “teleporting scent” and generating artificial smells. It hasn’t gone much farther than that at this point, but the vendor has stated its goal to use this technology to support human health and wellness.

Aqemia

Aqemia uses AI that includes experimental data to scale drug discovery in the pharmatech space. The company touts how it uses both quantum and statistical mechanics algorithms to achieve better outcomes for critical and niche disease categories. At the end of 2023, a $140 million multi-year collaboration with Sanofi was announced, so expect to see more innovations from Aqemia on the horizon.

Synthetaic

Synthetaic’s platform, RAIC, is primarily designed to generate AI models that can ingest and analyze unstructured and unlabeled datasets from videos, satellite imagery, and video and drone footage. The company famously tracked the origin of a Chinese balloon in February 2023. The company has also partnered with Microsoft and received additional funding for image-focused data analysis, which will likely lead to new products and use cases in the near future.

Synthesis AI

Synthesis AI is a cutting-edge synthetic data generation company that creates computer-vision-driven imagery, videos, and human simulations. Focused on ethical AI development, its use cases span across industries. Most recently, the company also started OpenSynthetics, an open community for synthetic data usage and development.

Syntho

Syntho is a synthetic data generation startup that uses generative AI to create synthetic data twins of actual sensitive data. Syntho’s Syntho Engine is often used for realistic product demos, data analytics, and test data generation. Key reasons why users select this platform include its comparative ease of use and democratized approach to synthetic data generation and analytics.

GenRocket

GenRocket is a synthetic data generation solutions provider that emphasizes automation and enterprise-level scalability for data. Test data can be automatically generated, and what’s more, it can be generated in a dynamic format that’s easy to adjust and scale up as needed. The platform works across a variety of industries and use cases, including finance and insurance, healthcare, AI and ML model testing, ETL and big data testing, and other digital transformation projects.

Gridspace

Gridspace offers solutions for organizations that want to better automate, manage, and analyze contact center and customer interactions. The company offers voice bots and live agent training, making it possible to create a hybrid bot-human agent workforce in healthcare, retail, and other customer-service-driven sectors.

Revery AI

Revery AI offers a virtual dressing room and try-on experience that uses generative AI to help users more accurately visualize how clothing will look on them in real life. The company has partnered with some fashion retailers to create a more integrated virtual shopping experience for users, and through this process has developed a more comprehensive AI shopping assistant.

Veesual

Veesual is a generative AI startup that uses deep learning and image generation to enable virtual try-ons for fashion and e-commerce. It gives users the ability to select the body-type model that looks most like them and then sort through high-res images of different clothing items on that model.

Frame AI

Frame AI is a customer service and general audience analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence to support users who want to better understand their audiences’ wants and needs. The company focuses on behavioral and sentiment analysis, customer-specific insights, and customer segmentation. The platform uses stream-trigger augmented generation architecture rather than retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), meaning it’s focused on paying close attention to what’s happening in your business’s specific data stream and building intelligence around that.

Zowie

Zowie is a generative AI and conversational AI company that focuses on customer service in e-commerce environments. The platform includes a wide variety of intelligent customer support chatbots, including bots that are focused on email and sales conversations. The company also operates with its own LLM, X2, which is specifically designed for e-commerce conversational scenarios and is compliant with both GDPR and SOC-2.

Forethought

Forethought is a top provider of generative AI-driven customer service technology, with various features built in to help businesses understand and better direct customer queries more efficiently. At this time, most of Forethought’s customers are focused in e-commerce, SaaS, fintech, and travel companies. At the end of 2023, the company began to use Autoflows, a new feature for its Solve product that helps users autonomously manage policy creation and issue resolution for a variety of customer service and ticketing workflows.

Lily AI

Lily AI is a product management and customer service AI company that helps retail businesses understand their customers and create smoother shopping experiences. The platform includes features for product attribution and labeling, site search support, AI-powered recommendations, and demand forecasting. With recent funding rounds and the introduction of a customer-focused content generation solution to the Lily AI stack, expect to see more growth from this company in the coming months.

Runway

Runway is an established leader in AI-powered, cinema-quality video and content production. Specifically with Runway Studios, filmmakers of varying skill levels can use Gen-1 and Gen-2 models, as well as several other image and content editing tools, to create high-quality video content without actors or original footage. With OpenAI’s recent announcement of the text-to-video platform, Sora, Runway is expected to compete against the new tool and perhaps optimize its existing feature set or add new features to win this race.

Latitude.io

Latitude.io is one of the first and foremost providers of AI-generated gaming experiences. With its flagship AI Dungeon, users can enter actions into the game while AI drives the rest of the game narrative forward.

Character.AI

Character.AI is a company that offers creative ways to develop and chat with user-created characters. Though the tool can simply be used for fun conversations with “real” or imagined people, it can also be used to simulate important conversations like job interviews.

Charisma Entertainment

Charisma Entertainment provides a plug-and-play platform for various entertainment companies and storytellers to create realistic characters and storylines that adjust to player/user inputs. Examples of media created with Charisma include The Kraken Wakes game and the Will Play virtual learning platform.

Replika

Replika is a generative AI solution that creates AI companions for human-like chats that have a more personal touch. The interface of this app is designed to not only allow users to have realistic conversations but also to spend time with their Replika characters in augmented reality experiences.

Aimi.fm

Aimi.fm provides users with a generative AI music player that generates endless loops of music in different genres for listeners. With Aimi Studio, music producers of all skill levels can access basic music creation functionalities. With Aimi Music Services, music-as-a-service capabilities are available for business and enterprise users who want to create copyright and royalty-free music.

Inworld AI

Inworld AI is a company that uses generative AI and text-to-character prompts to help gaming and media companies make non-player characters (NPC) seem more realistic. These characters may appear in traditional video games, VR, training, and other types of digital entertainment and experiences.

SOUNDRAW

SOUNDRAW is a generative AI solution for music composition that can be tailored to different genres, instruments, and other musical variables. It is most frequently used to generate music that is placed in the background of videos. The company also offers a music generation API to support business users who want to incorporate custom music into their products.

Notion

Notion has found much of its success in providing task management and other kinds of daily work management tools for creatives and other project teams. Notion AI was released to the public in early 2023 and quickly gained traction as an option for teams that want to summarize notes, generate and fill out tables, create quick lists and action items, and write emails with the help of generative AI.

Harvey

Harvey is a legal AI startup that has grown incredibly quickly, reaching an estimated $715 million valuation after about a year in operation. The company targets its solutions for elite law firms and professional services firms, now offering its tools and support through a Microsoft Azure professional services platform. With recent additional funding rounds, a growing number of top-tier law firm partnerships, and its recent acquisition of Mirage, Harvey is a startup to watch in the legal sector.

Ironclad

Ironclad offers AI contract management software for industries and use cases ranging from legal and procurement to marketing, sales, IT, HR, and finance. The platform is designed to help users manage the entire contract lifecycle, providing tools for designing, editing, and reporting on the results of different contracts and terms. Ironclad AI is a subset of the larger Ironclad platform that includes intelligent contract analysis and management tools for automated approvals, flagging, and other support, which frees up human employees for more complicated tasks and strategy work.

Taskade

Taskade is a productivity and task management solutions company that uses AI agents, AI writing assistants, and other AI-supported tools to help users manage their tasks more effectively. Users can take advantage of Taskade for task list generation and other creative project management visualizations, as well as for more automated workflows in PM, marketing, and sales task management.

Humata

Humata is an AI knowledge base tool that focuses on helping users quickly get useful information out of PDFs and files, even if they’re incredibly long and dense. Users can upload as many files as they want, ask questions of the files, and highlight important citations for continued reference. A free version of this tool is available, but it also scales to enterprise-level requirements and includes enterprise security and compliance protections.

Simplifai

Simplifai is an AI-powered automation platform and offers solutions primarily for banking, finance, insurance, and public sector companies. The platform includes many features to help users more effectively manage claims, debts, and other complicated document formats. With its commitment to GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and other data privacy and security protocols—as well as its purpose-built InsuranceGPT tool—Simplifai is a leading provider of AI tools for highly regulated FinTech businesses.

PatentPal

PatentPal is a tool that is specifically designed with patent law requirements in mind. It reviews claims that have been written by an author (often a lawyer) in order to generate tonally and factually accurate patent specification drafts on its own. The goal is to streamline the effort to protect intellectual property.

Adept AI

Adept AI is a newer OpenAI competitor that relies on AI and natural language processing commands to create better interactions between humans and computers in the workplace. It automates and simplifies workflows in common business tools, including Salesforce and Google Sheets. Its ACT-1 model is an established offering, and at the beginning of 2024, Adept released Adept Fuyu-Heavy, a highly capable multimodal AI model that should expand Adept AI’s customer base.

Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI is an AI search engine with an interface that resembles other leading chatbots and LLMs, but with a greater focus on personalization and conversational accessibility. In Perplexity’s output, a detailed response and explanation is presented; several sources and relevant images are included in these results, as well as related queries that can support users who want to continue their research. In essence, this tool combines the best of a traditional search engine with an AI model’s power and conversational capabilities.

Andi

Andi is a generative-AI search bot with a friendly tone that not only helps users search for information across the web but also summarizes and further explains that information. As the company explains, “Andi is designed from the ground up to not generate the sort of made-up rubbish and fake sources that you see with GPT-based chatbots.” Using current search results helps support this goal. Additionally, users appreciate Andi’s clean interface and lack of ads.

You.com

You.com is a private and secure search engine that summarizes and personalizes results with generative AI. The generative AI solution is available as a Chrome extension and can be used through iOS, Android, and WhatsApp. The company also boasts YOU API, which it claims is the first full web index for large language models.