xAI
Startup or tech company
AI company founded by Elon Musk that makes the Grok models.
Palo Alto, United States
Y Combinator
Accelerator or incubator
The world's best-known startup accelerator, which funded Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox and thousands more.
San Francisco, United StatesY Combinator Demo Day
Event
Twice-yearly event where YC companies pitch to investors.
San Francisco, United States
Yandex
Startup or tech company
Russian search engine and technology group.
Moscow, RussiaPublic companyZhang Yiming
Ecosystem figure
Founder of ByteDance, the parent of TikTok.
Beijing, ChinaZhejiang University
University program
Hangzhou university whose graduates include the founders of DeepSeek and Pinduoduo.
Hangzhou, China
Zhipu AI
Startup or tech company
Tsinghua University spin-out that develops the GLM language models.
Beijing, ChinaUnicorn