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Frontier Labs

The organizations building frontier general-purpose AI models: their funding, investors, jobs, and news. This dashboard indexes 12 organizations.

This data is sourced from public records and may be incomplete or inaccurate. Refresh this page for updated graphs. Suggest edits or claim any company's page to update the record!

A curated starting cohort of organizations releasing general-purpose language and multimodal foundation models. Inclusion is editorial, not a benchmark ranking or a claim of equal model capability. Corporate research groups use their own profiles rather than their parent companies.

Frontier Labs market map

Cosign

China

Corporate labs

US & Europe

The Fundraising Environment

Recorded equity rounds, investors and funding milestones. Debt, acquisitions and public listings are excluded. Corporate labs remain in the map and company list; their financing is excluded from these comparisons.

Largest Seed Rounds

Cosign
$0$50M$100M$150M$200M
Mistral AI
MiniMax

Largest Checks

Cosign
$0$50B$100B$150B$200B
OpenAI
Anthropic
Moonshot AI
Mistral AI
MiniMax

Quickest Seed to Series A

Cosign
0.0mo5.0mo10.0mo15.0mo20.0mo
Mistral AI
MiniMax

Round Size by Stage

Cosign
$0$17.5B$35B$52.5B$70BPre-seedSeedABCD+

The funding calendar

Cosign
03691220152019202120222023202420252026

The latest priced round

Cosign
$0$50B$100B$150B$200B
Mistral AI
Moonshot AI
Anthropic
OpenAI
MiniMax

The investors behind this cohort: shared investments and firms that led rounds in the most companies. Each company counts once per firm; missing investor and lead designations are excluded.

Who invests together?

Cosign
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Led a Round in the Most Companies

Cosign
01234
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Altimeter Capital
ASML
Capital Group
Coatue Management
Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL)
EQT

Where this cohort came from

When these companies began

Cosign
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Where these companies are

Cosign
01234San FranciscoBeijingLondonHangzhouParisSingapore
Companies in this dashboard (12)

Explore company profiles for founding teams, recorded funding, jobs and sources.

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Mistral AI
  • Google DeepMind
  • DeepSeek
  • Moonshot AI
  • Qwen
  • Z.ai
  • Meta AI
  • MiniMax
  • StepFun
  • xAI
About the data

12 companies from Cosign's Frontier Labs list. Charts use published company profiles, linked founders and recorded funding. Refresh the page for updated data; public snapshots are revalidated every minute. Monetary charts show USD rounds without exchange-rate conversion; timing and count charts include all currencies. Debt, secondary sales, IPOs and acquisitions are excluded. Unknown fields are excluded rather than treated as zero. Funding and founder histories may be incomplete. Select a point to inspect its sources.

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