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Frontier labs

AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus

Full-stack players: their own frontier models, a consumer assistant, agents, coding tools and a developer platform.

8 companies and products

Updated 10 Nov 2026. Select one for its offerings, news and links.

Frontier labs

AnthropicUpdatedThe enterprise and coding-agent leader. Launched its IPO roadshow on 10 Nov: 825M shares at $70–78 on Nasdaq (ANT), after filing its S-1 on 26 Oct. Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (9 Nov) are its new top models.OpenAIUpdatedThe largest consumer AI footprint. Closed an $11B first tranche at a $1.25T valuation (6 Nov); IPO pushed to 2027. ChatGPT runs as Chat, Work and Codex modes on every plan.GoogleUpdatedThe broadest distribution: Search, Android, Chrome and Workspace. Gemini 4 Carbon (28 Oct), released first to cyber defenders, tops the Artificial Analysis index; the Gemini app has 1B+ monthly users.xAI (SpaceXAI)Part of SpaceX; reported to be renaming again, from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI †. Owns X and Cursor. Grok Bot now routes some tasks to other companies' models.MetaUpdatedMoved from open Llama to closed Muse models, but released the open-weight Muse Spark Open (15 Oct). Muse passed 10M users (Q3 call, 21 Oct); NVIDIA is putting $3B into Meta's $95B equity raise.MicrosoftUpdatedAI across Windows, Microsoft 365, GitHub and Azure. One business-first Copilot app since 25 Sep. Multi-model: reportedly paying Anthropic $2B+ a year for Copilot.AmazonUpdatedAWS is the enterprise model marketplace, growing 39% in Q3. Bedrock hosts Claude, OpenAI, Grok and most leading open models next to Amazon's own Nova models.AppleUpdatedLate but huge distribution. The rebuilt Siri in iOS 27 runs on Apple's own models plus a custom Google Gemini; it opened to all third-party apps in the iOS 27.3 developer betas (3 Nov).

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