New Feature: AI Companies

Best of AI has always been organized around tools: one page per product, grouped into categories and professions. That answers “what should I use for X,” not “who’s behind this.” Today we’re adding the other half: Companies, a directory of the labs and businesses building the tools you already browse here.

What’s on a company page

Each of the 500 companies we’ve added so far gets its own page: founding year, headquarters, founders, a short description of what they actually build, and a link to every one of their tools already listed on Best of AI. Open the OpenAI page and you’ll see ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the rest of their lineup pulled in automatically.

That link is the point. A tool’s company field ties it to a company file, and the page builds the rest from there. Add a company once, and every tool that names it shows up on that company’s page from then on.

Why bother

Tool pages tell you what something does. Company pages tell you who’s likely to keep building it and what else they’ve shipped. If a startup’s first product impresses you, its company page is the fastest way to check whether it’s a two-person shop or a funded team with a track record. That context is easy to lose in a directory sorted purely by category.

We started with 500, and we need help finishing

We seeded this with the 500 companies that came up most often across our tool listings: the obvious names plus a long tail of smaller labs. It’s incomplete on purpose. New AI companies launch every week, details go stale fast, and we’d rather ship something useful now than sit on it until it’s perfect.

That’s where you come in. If a company is missing, a founder’s name is wrong, or a tool should be linked to a company page but isn’t, open a PR. Companies live as plain Markdown files in content/companies/, same as everything else in this repo, so there’s no login to wait on and no queue for us to clear. A corrected headquarters, an added founder, a company we missed entirely: all of it is a small, welcome fix.

• Browse companies
• Contribute: how to submit or fix a listing
• GitHub repo

The more people who chip in, the faster this fills in the gaps we couldn’t cover alone.