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Top 25 Foundation model companies based in the United States

RevenueBase identified 70 foundation model companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 5,998 professional contacts across them, including 1,488 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.

This list covers foundation model companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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5,998Contacts tracked
1,488Verified emails
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The 25 largest foundation model companies based in the United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 70 foundation model companies based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to foundation model companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceRedmond, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20265,001-10,0002,982 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Zero distance innovation for GenAI creators and industries Expertly engineering platforms and curating multimodal, multilingual data, we empower the ‘Magnificent Seven’ and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2Indirect evidenceRedwood City, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-500967 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3Indirect evidenceNew York City, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026n/a364 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“EAGLE is an AI infrastructure company advancing the state of inference through research in speculative decoding and efficient AI systems.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-500357 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Weights & Biases: the AI developer platform.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5Partial evidenceSan Mateo, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-200166 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Fireworks is the fastest way to build, tune, and scale AI on open models.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-50126 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20094 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Our efficient systems-level AI infrastructure enables a tenfold improvement in both training and inferencing of the largest generative models.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20064 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Smallest.ai is an AI research lab pioneering the future of compact, powerful models.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5032 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Run machine learning models in the cloud”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5029 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Essential AI is on a mission to make frontier AI more accessible through an open, collaborative platform.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11Indirect evidenceNew York City, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5026 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Anote is an applied AI research company in New York City.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12Indirect evidenceCupertino, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5025 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Nexa AI is an on device AI deployment and research company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Here at Merlyn Mind, we believe artificial intelligence is most valuable when purpose-built solutions are developed for vertical domains, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14Indirect evidencePittsburgh, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Petuum builds state-of-the-art generative AI focused on transparency.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15Partial evidenceRaleigh, NC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-1018 contacts →

Partial evidence

“UbiAI accelerates task-specific model training from months to days.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16Indirect evidenceNew York City, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Neural Bridge is an AI Lab.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17Indirect evidenceSheridan, WY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“About Us At ScaleGenAI, we are at the forefront of transforming how businesses interact with generative AI– streamlining LLM fine-tuning, inference, and genAI app development with…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18Indirect evidenceYork, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Bud Ecosystem is an AI research company specializing in multi-modal Generative AI.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Sciforium is pioneering the future of AI infrastructure and research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20Indirect evidenceSan Ramon, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-509 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Leap Distributed Technologies is expert in the following technologies with core development experteise- LLM platform for various vertices, Generative AI and Advanced Deep Learning…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-109 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Making it easy to run or deploy machine learning models and develop LLM applications.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Generate, annotate, clean and enrich datasets for all your AI needs with Refuel's LLM-powered platform.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24Indirect evidenceBoston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-104 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Gamalon, Inc, funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration) and leading Venture firms, collaborated with Stanford and MIT to enable large language deep…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-504 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The complete LLM platform with a superior developer experience and robust infrastructure.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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Foundation model companies based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026
24.8%Verified-email coverage
85.7Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
27.1%Largest-city concentration · San Francisco
Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
31
11-50
27
51-200
7
201-500
4
5,001-10,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 70 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among foundation model companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “foundation model companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names foundation model companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among foundation model companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,488 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names foundation model companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many foundation model companies are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 70 foundation model companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Centific, headquartered in Redmond, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most foundation model companies?

San Francisco leads with 19 headquartered companies, followed by New York (7) and New York City (4).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,488 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 70 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.