§ Actors
Actors in the ledger
Companies, governments, research labs, and individuals who shape AI history. Each is linked to the entries they appear in.
137 actors 5 types 230 entries indexed
Companies 66
- Aleph Alpha (aka Aleph Alpha GmbH) 1 entry
- Alibaba (aka Alibaba Cloud, Qwen, Alibaba Group) 2 entries
- Amazon (aka Amazon.com Inc., AWS, Amazon Web Services, AMZN) 8 entries
- AMD (aka Advanced Micro Devices, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) 2 entries
- Andreessen Horowitz (aka Andreessen Horowitz, a16z) 2 entries
- Anthropic (aka Anthropic PBC) 54 entries
- Apple (aka Apple Inc., AAPL) 2 entries
- Berkshire Hathaway (aka Berkshire Hathaway Inc.) 1 entry
- Blackstone (aka Blackstone Inc., Blackstone Group) 1 entry
- Broadcom Inc. (aka Broadcom Corporation, Avago Technologies, Broadcom XPU) 1 entry
- Cerebras Systems (aka Cerebras Systems Inc, Cerebras Systems, Inc.) 1 entry
- Character.AI (aka Character AI, character.ai) 2 entries
- Chicago Tribune (aka Tribune Publishing) 1 entry
- Coatue Management (aka Coatue Management) 1 entry
- Cognition AI (aka Cognition Labs, Cognition) 1 entry
- Cohere (aka Cohere Inc.) 1 entry
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems (aka CFS, Commonwealth Fusion) 1 entry
- Cursor (aka Anysphere, Anysphere Inc.) 2 entries
- DeepSeek (aka DeepSeek AI, High-Flyer AI) 4 entries
- G42 (aka Group 42, G42 Healthcare) 2 entries
- Getty Images (aka Getty) 1 entry
- Goldman Sachs (aka Goldman Sachs Group, The Goldman Sachs Group) 2 entries
- Google (aka Google LLC, Alphabet, Google/Alphabet) 9 entries
- Google DeepMind (aka DeepMind, Google DeepMind, DeepMind Technologies) 29 entries
- Hellman & Friedman (aka H&F) 1 entry
- Huawei (aka Huawei Technologies, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.) 2 entries
- Hugging Face (aka HuggingFace, HF) 1 entry
- HUMAIN (aka Humain) 1 entry
- ICONIQ Capital (aka ICONIQ Capital, ICONIQ Growth) 1 entry
- Ineffable Intelligence (aka Ineffable) 1 entry
- Isomorphic Labs (aka Isomorphic) 2 entries
- Klarna (aka Klarna Bank AB) 1 entry
- Lightspeed Venture Partners (aka Lightspeed Venture Partners, LSVP) 1 entry
- Manus AI (aka Manus) 1 entry
- Meta AI (aka Facebook AI Research, FAIR, Meta FAIR) 7 entries
- Meta Platforms (aka Meta, Facebook, Meta Platforms Inc.) 3 entries
- MGX (aka MGX Abu Dhabi) 1 entry
- Microsoft (aka Microsoft Corporation, MSFT) 22 entries
- Mistral AI (aka Mistral, MistralAI) 4 entries
- Morgan Stanley 1 entry
- NVIDIA (aka Nvidia, NVIDIA Corporation) 16 entries
- Ona (aka Gitpod, Gitpod GmbH) 1 entry
- OpenAI (aka OpenAI LP, OpenAI Inc, OpenAI Global LLC) 70 entries
- Oracle (aka Oracle Corporation) 2 entries
- Perplexity AI, Inc. (aka Perplexity AI) 1 entry
- Recursion (aka Recursion Pharmaceuticals) 1 entry
- Reflection AI (aka Reflection) 1 entry
- SK hynix (aka SK Hynix, SK hynix Inc., Hynix) 1 entry
- SMIC (aka Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, SMIC International) 1 entry
- SoftBank (aka SoftBank Group, SoftBank Corp) 3 entries
- SpaceX (aka SpaceX Inc., SpaceXAI) 3 entries
- Stability AI (aka StabilityAI) 2 entries
- Stainless (aka Stainless API) 1 entry
- Suno, Inc. (aka Suno AI) 1 entry
- Tencent (aka Tencent Holdings, Tencent Holdings Limited) 1 entry
- TeraWulf Inc. (aka TeraWulf, WULF) 1 entry
- The New York Times Company (aka NYT, New York Times) 3 entries
- Thinking Machines Lab (aka Thinking Machines Lab) 2 entries
- TikTok (aka TikTok Inc., ByteDance TikTok) 1 entry
- Trail of Bits 1 entry
- TSMC (aka Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Taiwan Semiconductor) 1 entry
- Udio (aka Udio AI) 1 entry
- Universal Music Group (aka UMG, Universal Music) 1 entry
- Warner Music Group (aka WMG, Warner Music Group) 1 entry
- X Corp (aka Twitter, X, Twitter Inc.) 1 entry
- xAI (aka xAI Corp) 6 entries
Research labs 7
- Allen Institute for AI (aka AI2, AllenAI) 1 entry
- Apollo Research (aka Apollo Research AI) 1 entry
- Arc Institute (aka Arc) 1 entry
- Baker Lab (aka Institute for Protein Design, IPD, David Baker Lab) 2 entries
- Harvard Medical School (aka HMS, Harvard Medical School & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) 1 entry
- METR (aka Model Evaluation and Threat Research) 0 entries
- MIT CSAIL (aka MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, CSAIL) 1 entry
Governments 23
- California Attorney General (aka California AG, CA AG) 2 entries
- Delaware Attorney General (aka Delaware AG, DE AG) 2 entries
- Elections Canada (aka Chief Electoral Officer) 1 entry
- European Union (aka EU, European Commission, European Parliament) 4 entries
- German Federal Government (aka Germany, Bundesregierung, BfV, Federal Republic of Germany) 2 entries
- Government of Canada (aka Canada, Canadian government, CSE, Communications Security Establishment) 2 entries
- Government of Singapore (aka Singapore, MDDI, Ministry of Digital Development and Information, Smart Nation Group, EDB, Economic Development Board) 1 entry
- Government of the People's Republic of China (aka PRC, China, CPC, Chinese Communist Party, State Council of China) 8 entries
- National Security Agency (aka NSA, DIRNSA, National Security Agency/Central Security Service) 2 entries
- Office of Management and Budget (aka OMB) 1 entry
- Public Investment Fund (aka PIF, Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund) 1 entry
- Russian Government (aka Russia, Kremlin, Russian Federation) 1 entry
- Saudi Arabian Government (aka Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA, Saudi Arabia) 1 entry
- State of California (aka California, California Legislature) 1 entry
- UAE Government (aka United Arab Emirates, UAE, Abu Dhabi) 1 entry
- UK Government (aka United Kingdom, HM Government, UK) 6 entries
- United States Congress (aka Congress, U.S. Congress, US Senate, US House of Representatives) 9 entries
- United States Copyright Office (aka USCO, Copyright Office) 2 entries
- United States Department of Defense (aka DoD, Pentagon, Department of Defense) 6 entries
- United States Federal Courts (aka Federal Courts, US District Court, SDNY, JPML) 3 entries
- US Department of Commerce (aka Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, DOC) 5 entries
- US Department of Justice (aka DOJ, Department of Justice) 2 entries
- White House (aka OSTP, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President) 13 entries
Individuals 29
- Amy Klobuchar (aka Senator Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Klobuchar) 2 entries
- Andrej Karpathy (aka Karpathy) 1 entry
- Chris Olah 1 entry
- Dario Amodei (aka Dario) 9 entries
- David Silver (aka David H. Silver) 1 entry
- Demis Hassabis (aka Sir Demis Hassabis) 2 entries
- Donald Trump (aka Trump, President Trump) 9 entries
- Elon Musk (aka Elon R. Musk, xAI CEO) 6 entries
- Friedrich Merz (aka Chancellor Merz, CDU leader Merz) 1 entry
- Jack Clark (aka John Clark) 1 entry
- Jay Obernolte (aka Rep. Jay Obernolte, Representative Obernolte) 1 entry
- Jensen Huang (aka Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA CEO) 4 entries
- John Jumper (aka John M. Jumper) 1 entry
- Kanishka Narayan (aka Kanishka Narayan MP) 1 entry
- Kevin Weil (aka Kevin Weil) 1 entry
- Liang Wenfeng (aka 梁文锋) 1 entry
- Lori Trahan (aka Rep. Lori Trahan, Representative Trahan) 1 entry
- Mark Carney (aka PM Carney, Prime Minister Carney) 1 entry
- Mark Zuckerberg 2 entries
- Masayoshi Son (aka Masa Son, SoftBank CEO) 1 entry
- Melania Trump (aka First Lady Melania Trump) 1 entry
- Mira Murati (aka Miriam Murati, ex-OpenAI CTO) 1 entry
- Noam Shazeer 1 entry
- Pope Leo XIV (aka Robert Francis Prevost) 1 entry
- Robert Habeck (aka Economics Minister Habeck, Greens leader Habeck) 1 entry
- Sam Altman (aka Samuel Harris Altman, sama) 18 entries
- Satya Nadella (aka Satya Narayana Nadella, Microsoft CEO) 4 entries
- Ted Cruz (aka Senator Ted Cruz, Sen. Cruz) 2 entries
- Yann LeCun (aka LeCun) 4 entries
Organizations 12
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (aka AMPAS, The Academy) 1 entry
- Center for AI Standards and Innovation (aka CAISI, US AI Safety Institute, AISI) 2 entries
- Council of Europe (aka CoE) 1 entry
- ECMWF (aka European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) 1 entry
- European Commission (aka EC, Commission) 5 entries
- European Parliament (aka EP) 1 entry
- GIC (aka GIC Private Limited, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation) 3 entries
- Linux Foundation (aka LF, The Linux Foundation) 1 entry
- Public First Action 1 entry
- SAG-AFTRA (aka Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) 2 entries
- The Authors Guild (aka Authors Guild) 2 entries
- UK AI Security Institute (aka AI Security Institute, AI Safety Institute, AISI) 3 entries