Generative AI Shallow Dive 2022

We’ve all seen lists like this. But what do each of these companies really do? How much fundraising do they have, and are they hiring?

• This report provides an overview of over 170 Generative AI (or adjacent) platforms.

• It covers AI’s potential use cases in art, music, gaming, and in the creator economy.

That list is pretty long, though. Which companies should you definitely know?

Today, I’ll outline the top 1-3 companies in each category you should know about. A lot of these companies span multiple categories (text, image, code, etc.), so this is a preliminary list.

Before we dive in, it’s worth defining some of these categories. Here’s how Antler defines each in their original post:

Okay, let’s dive into the short list.

📚 The Short List

In this short list, I’ve included a few addition companies that are not in the original post. I intentionally highlight these companies below because I think they are doing noteworthy work in their respective segments.

It’s also worth noting that some of these companies are Gen-AI adjacent — not all of these companies produce AI generated content.

Text

• Jasper AI — copywriting and content generation ($125M Series A, hiring eng & product here)

  • Related: How did ChatGPT disrupt Jasper AI’s moat? (link)

• AI21 Labs — NLP company, OpenAI competitor ($64M Series B, hiring research, eng and marketing here)

• You Write — AI search engine ($25M raise, hiring product here)

Image

• OpenAI, DALL-E — image generation ($20B valuation, various hiring here)

• Stability AI, Stable Diffusion — image generation ($101M Series A, various hiring here)

• Midjourney — image generation (self-funded, hiring eng here)

Audio

• AssemblyAI — audio transcriptions ($30M Series B, hiring eng and marketing here)

Code

• Github Copilot, OpenAI Codex — pair programmer ($250M Series B, various hiring here)

• Replit — pair programmer ($80M Series B, hiring eng here)

Chatbots

• Cohere — NLP platform ($125M Series B, various hiring here)

• Forethought — customer support platform ($65M Series C, hiring eng here)

• Netomi — customer experience chatbot ($30M Series B, various hiring here)

Video

• Descript — video editing tool ($50M Series C, various hiring here)

• Runway ML — video editing tool ($50M round, hiring eng here)

MLOps / ML Platforms

• Adept — AI research and product lab ($65M Series A, hiring eng and product here)

• Hugging Face — AI library ($100M Series C, various hiring here)

• Mosaic ML — ML training and cloud storage ($25M Series B, hiring eng and research here)

Search

• Neeva — search engine ($40M Series B, hiring eng here)

• Hebbia — search engine ($30M Series A, hiring eng here)

• Glean — internal search ($100M Series C, various hiring here)

Data

• Surge AI — advanced data annotation (self-funded, various hiring here)

• Scale AI — data annotation ($325M Series E, various hiring here)

• Snorkel AI — data annotation ($85M Series C, various hiring here)

Research

• Anthropic — AI safety and research ($580M round, various hiring here)

• OpenAI — research ($20B valuation, various hiring here)

• Google, DeepMind — research (various hiring here)

Check out the full Antler post here (link).

Which AI companies do you think are most interesting?

Thanks for reading! Drop me a line if you have any questions.