Startups worth knowing, with sources

Personal AI agent platform focused on trust and safety.

Developer of Underdog, a private AI assistant that runs entirely on-device.

AI research and deployment company focused on safety and alignment.

Safety simulation platform for generative AI-driven robotics.

Early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise AI startups.

Developer of open-weight frontier AI models for enterprises and sovereign institutions.

French AI lab developing large multimodal models.

Cloud computing provider and AI infrastructure startup.

Developer of PolicyLM-1.7B, a lightweight decision model designed for real-time, customizable content moderation.

Maker of a $3,499 personal computer designed to run AI agents locally.

Develops solid oxide fuel cells designed to power data centers and defense vehicles.

Developer of the open source Hermes Agent for enterprise AI workflows.

Startup focused on interpretability that monitors internal AI model signals to detect rogue agents.

AI software for detecting manufacturing defects in battery and chip production.

Developer of an open source platform for building and operating long-running AI agents and other enterprise systems.

Startup focused on understanding and securing internet traffic, including traffic generated by autonomous systems.

Frontier AI model designed for complex engineering, professional, and research workflows.

Developer of Jev, a non-text AI model designed for decision-making and automation.

Predictive AI infrastructure platform helping organizations optimize compute resource allocation.

Software to run AI models and computing jobs on satellites.

Security platform for monitoring and controlling how employees use AI tools, agents, and extensions in enterprise environments.

Automated red-teaming for robotics and physical AI systems.

The first AI for mechanical engineering.

Cloud-based platform generating synthetic audio datasets and digital twins for physical AI simulation.