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Foundation Models

Complete intelligence on every Foundation Models company — funding, valuation, founders & more

37companies tracked$233.4Btotal raisedMostly Series A

Total FundingCombined

$233.4B

Across 37 companies in Foundation Models

Avg ValuationPer company

$58B

Based on 22 companies with disclosed valuations

Top 3 in Foundation Models

By Awaira Score

#1Private

OpenAI

🇺🇸 Est. 2015

Score

98/100

Valuation

$852B

#2Series G

Anthropic

🇺🇸 Est. 2021

Score

95/100

Valuation

$380B

#3Corporate

DeepSeek

🇨🇳 Est. 2023

Score

92/100

Valuation

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OpenAIHOT

🇺🇸 Sam Altman

Foundation Models

$852B

$127B

Private

+12.4%

ByteDance AIHOT

🇨🇳 Zhang Yiming

Foundation Models

$500B

N/A

Private

+0%

AnthropicHOT

🇺🇸 Dario Amodei

Foundation Models

$380B

$67B

Series G

+8.2%

xAI

🇺🇸 Elon Musk

Foundation Models

$250B

$22B

Private

+22.1%

Baidu AI

🇨🇳 Robin Li

Foundation Models

$45B

N/A

Public

+0%

Safe SuperintelligenceHOTNEW

🇺🇸 Ilya Sutskever

Foundation Models

$32B

$3B

Series A

+0%

Zhipu AIHOT

🇨🇳 Tang Jie

Foundation Models

$31.3B

$1.5B

Public

+35.2%

Moonshot AIHOT

🇨🇳 Yang Zhilin

Foundation Models

$18B

$2B

Series C

+48.6%

Mistral AIHOT

🇫🇷 Arthur Mensch

Foundation Models

$13.8B

$3.0B

Series C

+5.7%

MiniMaxHOT

🇨🇳 Yan Junjie

Foundation Models

$4B

$900M

Public

+28.4%

AMI LabsHOTNEW

🇫🇷 Yann LeCun

Foundation Models

$3.5B

$1.0B

Seed

+0%

Baichuan AI

🇨🇳 Wang Xiaochuan

Foundation Models

$2.8B

$1.0B

Series A

+5.7%

Sakana AI

🇯🇵 David Ha

Foundation Models

$2.6B

$479M

Series B

+0%

StepFun

🇨🇳 Jiang Daxin

Foundation Models

$2B

$570M

Series A

+0%

AI21 Labs

🇮🇱 Yoav Shoham

Foundation Models

$1.4B

$636M

Series D

+8.3%

MosaicML

🇺🇸 Naveen Rao

Foundation Models

$1.3B

$63M

Acquired

+0%

KrutrimHOT

🇮🇳 Bhavish Aggarwal

Foundation Models

$1B

$280M

Series A

+18.4%

01.AI

🇨🇳 Kai-Fu Lee

Foundation Models

$1B

$300M

Series D

-2.8%

Reka AIHOT

🇺🇸 Yi Tay

Foundation Models

$1B

$168M

Series B

+22.5%

Nous ResearchHOT

🇺🇸 Jeffrey Quesnelle

Foundation Models

$1B

$70M

Series A

+18.9%

Imbue

🇺🇸 Kanjun Qiu

Foundation Models

$1B

$220M

Series B

-3.1%

Sarvam AIHOT

🇮🇳 Vivek Raghavan

Foundation Models

$200M

$54M

Series A

+31.2%

DeepSeekHOT

🇨🇳 Liang Wenfeng

Foundation Models

N/A

$1.1B

Corporate

+47.3%

Alibaba DAMO

🇨🇳 Jeff Zhang

Foundation Models

N/A

Corporate

+0%

Naver AI

🇰🇷 Choi Su-yeon

Foundation Models

N/A

Corporate

+0%

Upstage

🇰🇷 Kim Sung-hoon

Foundation Models

N/A

$100M

Series B

+0%

Silo AI

🇫🇮 Peter Sarlin

Foundation Models

N/A

$60M

Acquired

+0%

Technology Innovation Institute

🇦🇪 Faisal Al Bannai

Foundation Models

N/A

Corporate

+0%

Kakao Brain

🇰🇷 Kim Il-doo

Foundation Models

N/A

$100M

Corporate

+0%

Aleph Alpha

🇩🇪 Jonas Andrulis

Foundation Models

N/A

$533M

Series B

-5.2%

BharatGPTHOT

🇮🇳 Hemant Darbari

Foundation Models

N/A

$50M

Series A

+0%

LightOn

🇫🇷 Laurent Daudet

Foundation Models

N/A

$3M

Public

+0%

BorealisAI

🇨🇦 Russ Salakhutdinov

Foundation Models

N/A

Corporate

+0%

Zhiyuan Research

🇨🇳 Zhu Songchun

Foundation Models

N/A

Corporate

+0%

Elyza

🇯🇵 Tetsuya Yamada

Foundation Models

N/A

$30M

Acquired

+0%

Unlikely AI

🇬🇧 William Tunstall-Pedoe

Foundation Models

N/A

$20M

Series A

+0%

ModelBest

🇨🇳 Han Xianpeng

Foundation Models

N/A

$15M

Seed

+0%

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Jobs in Foundation Models

10 open positions at Foundation Models companies

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Research Engineer - Pretraining

Safe Superintelligence

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Senior ML Engineer

OpenAI

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Research Scientist

Anthropic

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LLM Engineer

Mistral AI

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NLP Engineer

Sarvam AI

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Research Scientist — Alignment

OpenAI

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AI Models in Foundation Models

55 models released by Foundation Models companies

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Falcon 180B

by Technology Innovation Institute

Whisper V3

by OpenAI

Jamba 1.5 Large

by AI21 Labs

GPT-o1

by OpenAI

Grok 3

by xAI

Falcon 40B

by Technology Innovation Institute

Whisper Large v3

by OpenAI

Mistral 7B

by Mistral AI

Mixtral 8x7B

by Mistral AI

GLM-4

by Zhipu AI

Jamba 1.5 Mini (SSM)

by AI21 Labs

Claude 3 Haiku

by Anthropic

GPT-3.5 Turbo

by OpenAI

GPT-4 Turbo

by OpenAI

Mistral Large 2

by Mistral AI

Mixtral 8x22B

by Mistral AI

Pixtral Large

by Mistral AI

Reka Core

by Reka AI

Claude 2.1

by Anthropic

Krutrim

by Krutrim

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

by Anthropic

GPT-o4 Mini

by OpenAI

GPT-4o

by OpenAI

GPT-4.5

by OpenAI

GPT-o3

by OpenAI

DeepSeek R1

by DeepSeek

GPT-4o Mini

by OpenAI

Solar 10.7B

by Upstage

Claude 3.5 Haiku

by Anthropic

Yi-Large

by 01.AI

Claude 3 Opus

by Anthropic

Sora

by OpenAI

Codestral

by Mistral AI

Claude Haiku 4.5

by Anthropic

DALL-E 3

by OpenAI

Mistral Medium

by Mistral AI

Qwen 2.5 72B

by Alibaba DAMO

Mistral Nemo

by Mistral AI

Grok 3 Mini

by xAI

Mistral Small

by Mistral AI

Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B

by Alibaba DAMO

Sarvam-M

by Sarvam AI

Mistral Large

by Mistral AI

Claude Opus 4

by Anthropic

DeepSeek V3

by DeepSeek

Claude Sonnet 4

by Anthropic

DeepSeek Coder V2

by DeepSeek

Grok-2

by xAI

Grok-2 Mini

by xAI

Jamba 1.5 Mini

by AI21 Labs

Kimi

by Moonshot AI

Yi-1.5 34B

by 01.AI

Ernie 4.0

by Baidu AI

QwQ 32B

by Alibaba DAMO

Hailuo AI

by MiniMax

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many AI companies are in Foundation Models?▾

There are currently 37 AI companies in the Foundation Models category tracked on Awaira. This number grows as we continuously add new companies to the database.

What is the total funding raised in Foundation Models?▾

Companies in the Foundation Models space have collectively raised $233.4B in total disclosed funding. This figure covers all public funding rounds tracked by Awaira and is updated regularly.

Which is the top-ranked Foundation Models company?▾

OpenAI is the #1-ranked Foundation Models company on Awaira with an Awaira Score of 98/100. The score reflects a composite of valuation, total funding, stage, team size, and market signals.

What stage are most Foundation Models companies at?▾

The most common funding stage for Foundation Models companies on Awaira is Series A. Stage distribution reflects the overall maturity and investment density of the sector.

Which countries lead in Foundation Models?▾

The top countries for Foundation Models companies by company count are: 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇫🇷. The USA leads most AI categories globally, with India and the UK following in many segments.

What is the average valuation of a Foundation Models company?▾

The average publicly disclosed valuation for Foundation Models companies tracked on Awaira is $58B. Many companies do not disclose valuations, so the actual median may differ significantly.