Google and Google DeepMind build the Gemini family of multimodal models, the Imagen and Nano Banana image models, the Lyria music models, and the Veo video models.

ByteDance's AI labs ship the Seedream image models and the Seedance video models, among other Doubao-branded research.

ElevenLabs builds best-in-class voice AI — realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, music, and sound effects.

Alibaba's Tongyi research group publishes the Wan video models and the Qwen family of language models.

IBM Research builds the open-weight Granite family — efficient foundation models tuned for enterprise instruction-following, RAG, code, and tool use.

OpenAI builds GPT, DALL·E, and the Sora family of models, and has been a central force behind the modern wave of generative AI.

Meta's FAIR and GenAI labs build the open-weight Llama family of language models — among the most widely used open models for local inference.

MiniMax is a Chinese AI lab whose speech and music models are widely used for multilingual voiceover and generative music.

Black Forest Labs makes the FLUX family of image models — state-of-the-art open-weight image generation.

Mistral AI is a Paris-based lab that ships fast, efficient open-weight language models with strong reasoning per parameter.

Mirelo focuses on generative audio — sound effects and ambient soundscapes driven by text prompts.

Liquid AI develops Liquid Foundation Models (LFM) — a new architecture optimized for efficient long-context reasoning.