Companies and models
Who is behind Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Kimi and Gemini? As of October 2026.
- Who is Anthropic, and what is Claude?The company behind Claude, who founded it and what it stands for. As of October 2026.
- Who is OpenAI, and what is ChatGPT?From a non-profit research lab in 2015 to the maker of ChatGPT. What you need to know about OpenAI. As of October 2026.
- What is xAI, and what is Grok?Elon Musk's AI company, the Grok models and what the SpaceX takeover means. As of October 2026.
- Who is Moonshot AI, and what is Kimi?The Chinese AI company behind Kimi, and why it stands out with open models. As of October 2026.
- What is Google Gemini?Google's AI models and assistant, what happened to Bard, and what "multimodal" means. As of October 2026.
- From Hangzhou to your GP: Asian AI and the futureWho are DeepSeek and Alibaba with Qwen, what do open weights mean, what's going on with chips and memory, and what can AI do for healthcare? As of October 2026.
- Meta and Llama, what Meta does with AI and what it means for youFrom the open Llama models to the new Muse family. What Meta makes, what you can run yourself and what already works in the Netherlands. As of October 2026.
- Mistral, Europe's AI player from ParisWho Mistral AI is, what Le Chat is, which models you can run yourself, where your data is stored and what ASML has to do with it. As of October 2026.