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Foundation Models

$15.7BTotal Funding
12Companies
12.8KHN Mentions
30.8KAvg GitHub Stars

Category Trends

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Hacker News Mentions

Total HN mentions across all companies in this category over time

11,84912,086.2512,323.512,560.7512,798Jan 25Jan 26Jan 27Jan 28
30-day trend+8.0%

Total Funding

Cumulative funding raised by companies in this category over time

$4.8B$7.6B$10.3B$13.0B$15.7BJan 25Jan 26Jan 27Jan 28
30-day trend+225.3%

Creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4. The company that kicked off the generative AI boom.

Funding: $10.0B
HN Mentions (30d): 2221

AI safety company behind Claude. OpenAI's main competitor.

Funding: $3.5B
HN Mentions (30d): 1994

Enterprise-focused LLM company. Strong in embeddings and RAG.

Funding: $1.6B
HN Mentions (30d): 7

French AI lab building open-weight foundation models.

Funding: $415M
HN Mentions (30d): 15

AI-powered search engine. Answer engine that cites sources.

Funding: $239M
HN Mentions (30d): 155

Fine-tuning platform for LLMs. Train custom models on your data.

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The GitHub of machine learning. Hosts models, datasets, and Spaces.

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HN Mentions (30d): 216

Platform to run and deploy ML models via API.

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HN Mentions (30d): 356

API access to Claude models. Enterprise AI assistant with safety focus.

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AWS service for accessing foundation models. Unified API for multiple AI models.

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