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Accurately simulate market response at scale
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Self-optimizing neocloud that cuts LLM costs by 100x
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI Agents to Make Local Gov Efficient
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Foundation models on enterprise transaction data.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Making Defense Manufacturing Faster and Cheaper
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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AI-native OS for Real Estate Brokerages
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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OpenClaw for manufacturers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Defining the frontier of multiplayer AI.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI brain for creators that runs their social content
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Market for future inference capacity
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Training the world's best AI model for quantitative finance.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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CrowdStrike for AI Agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Healthcare AI
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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AI Operating System for Wholesale Distribution
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Databricks for Enterprise Codebases
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Legora for AEC (Architecture, Engineering, & Construction) firms
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The world's frontier hacker of AI agents.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Legora for commercial insurance carriers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI-Native Insurance for Frontier Tech
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Predict how market participants behave
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Virtual Reality for Training Robots
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Derivatives Exchange for Compute
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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AI-Native Engineering Firm designing Data Centers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Curing cancer. Starting with dogs.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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We find where AI agents fail, then train better models to run them.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The AI-native radiology practice
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Hotels that run themselves
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The AI Operating System for Auto Shops.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Training company-specific models that approve AI actions.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Robots that learn on the job
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Multiplayer workspace for agents and humans
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Distributed, hardware-agnostic AI inference
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Self-optimizing inference cloud for faster, cheaper AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Foundational infrastructure for Physical AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Autonomous rovers to make the ‘Google Maps’ of underground utilities
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States