AI products and data tools, where the hard part is making something abstract feel concrete.
10 sites in the drawer
Chai Discovery builds AI models that let scientists design new drug molecules on a computer instead of screening for them in a lab. Backed by OpenAI, it came out of stealth in 2024 by publishing its structure-prediction model with open weights rather than keeping it proprietary.
FLORA is a node-based canvas where designers, brand teams and agencies chain more than 50 AI image, video and text models into a single workflow. It started as an NYU grad-school project by Weber Wong and is now used for production work at Pentagram and Lionsgate.
Legora is an AI workspace for lawyers, used at large firms and in-house teams for document review, drafting and legal research. Founded in Stockholm as Leya and renamed once the product outgrew the chat box, it reached a $5.6bn valuation less than two years after its seed round.
Emergent is an AI app builder that turns a plain-language description into a working web or mobile app, aimed at people who have never written code. Twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha launched it out of Y Combinator and reached $50M in annual revenue in seven months.
Manus is a general AI agent that carries out whole tasks — research, slide decks, working websites — inside its own cloud computer. Meta bought it for $2 billion in December 2025; Chinese regulators ordered the deal unwound, and this month it returned to operating independently.
Higgsfield is an AI video and image studio aimed at filmmakers and social-video creators. Its pitch is camera control — dolly-ins, crash zooms and bullet time chosen as named presets rather than described in a prompt — layered on top of other labs' models.
Physical Intelligence is a San Francisco company training general-purpose foundation models that aim to control any robot on any task. It publishes its work as a dated research log rather than a product pitch, and released the weights for its first model, π0, openly in February 2025.
Thinking Machines Lab is the AI research and product company Mira Murati founded after leaving OpenAI, where she was CTO. Its first model, Inkling, shipped with downloadable weights under Apache 2.0 — 975 billion parameters, the largest openly released model built in the US.
Discovery Loop is a public benefit corporation founded to automate the experimental loop of science and engineering. Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years to run it, and the plan is to be its own first customer — automating machine learning research before any other field.
Safe Superintelligence Inc. is the AI lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, and its website is a single page: the letter announcing it in June 2024. Two years and a reported $32bn valuation later, that letter is still the entire site, and the lab has still shipped nothing publicly.
