Gentoo Logic · Modeling Warehouse↗ Modeling reference

Architecture intelligence · organized by the model

Which foundational model powers what — and how close they run to it.

Each model is a center of gravity. Companies orbit every model they use; distance = how directly they consume it (inner = Native, outer = Middleware). Dot size = whether that's their primary, secondary or tertiary model. Tap a company to peek; expand for the full stack; turn on Compare mode to diff up to three.

▶ Tap a model pill to raise its orbit to the top · tap a dot for a quick peek (then ⤢ for full detail) · Compare mode → tap up to 3 dots → diff their stacks.

State of AI Architecture · live index of 260 companies

48%
build or self-host their own model (Native)
74/100
avg Foundation Proximity Score (closer = cheaper + more control)
76%
are Native or Direct-API — one hop or fewer from the model
How close the field runs
1 · Native124 · 48%
2 · Direct API74 · 28%
3 · Cloud-hosted18 · 7%
4 · Middleware19 · 7%
off the LLM map25 · 10%
Verticals closest to the metal
AI/LLM · 12100
Healthcare AI · 3100
Defense · 3100
Robotics · 3100
Autonomous · 3100
Verticals furthest out
Insurtech · 30
Database · 325
Data · 325
FinTech · 2342
DevTools · 1252

The read: 48% of the companies we mapped now run their own model — and it\u2019s the frontier (AI-native, biotech, robotics, defense, sovereign) that\u2019s closest to the metal, while horizontal SaaS rents via API. The closer to the foundation, the cheaper the tokens and the more control over the output. Where does your stack sit? Run the free audit →

What moved · live changelog
Linear ↓ furtherDirect API → Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)
Grafana Labs ↑ closerMiddleware / wrapper → Direct API
Chime ↑ closerOff the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML) → Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)
Carta ↓ furtherDirect API → Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)
Most recently re-verified
LinearGrafana LabsElevenLabsDeelChimeCartaAsanaAmplitude
Foundational models — the drivers
1 · Native 2 · Direct API 3 · Cloud-hosted 4 · Middleware off-map● large = primary model · ○ small = secondary / tertiary

Full index · 260 companies

Every record, as text — the same data the orbit map plots above.

1Password

Cybersecurity · Hybrid · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack:

Compliance: end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, SOC 2 Type 2

1Password’s production architecture is centered on a zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted vault service, where plaintext is encrypted on the client before reaching 1Password’s servers. Publicly available sources confirm hybrid cloud deployment patterns for components such as the SCIM bridge, but they do not reliably expose the company’s full internal database stack or all backend infrastructure details.

Abnormal Security

Cybersecurity · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Abnormal Behavioral Foundation Model — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Abnormal ABX / behavioral ML models — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (data lake/object storage), Elasticsearch/OpenSearch (log/search, inferred)

Compliance: SOC 2 (inferred from enterprise email security norm), ISO 27001 (inferred), GDPR-aligned data processing (inferred)

Abnormal runs a cloud-native, API-first behavioral AI platform that integrates with cloud email and collaboration suites (e.g., Microsoft 365, Google Workspace) outside the mail flow, ingesting user, email, and identity telemetry into proprietary behavioral models and a data lake to drive detection, response, and human-risk scoring.[1][5][7][8][9] Its core is a proprietary behavioral foundation model and related ML pipelines hosted in its own cloud environment, exposed through its SaaS console and APIs rather than via public/open-source model distribution.[7][9]

Abridge

Healthcare · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Abridge clinical (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2

Ambient clinical-documentation AI with its own medical models plus partner LLMs, grounded in clinician audio.

Adobe

Creative · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Adobe Firefly (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, own

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Runs Firefly, its own family of commercially-safe generative image/video models, alongside partner LLMs in Acrobat.

Adyen

FinTech · On-Prem · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: PCI DSS Level 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001

Unusually for its scale, runs its own data centers (not a hyperscaler) on a single Java platform over PostgreSQL for full control of the payment path. RevenueProtect fraud scoring is in-house ML.

Affirm

FinTech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL, Kafka

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

BNPL underwriting on large in-house risk ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

AI21 Labs

AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Jamba (own, SSM-Transformer) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Trains Jamba, its own hybrid Mamba-Transformer long-context models.

Airbnb

Marketplace · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL (Vitess), HBase, Elasticsearch

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR

AWS-native marketplace that evolved a Rails monolith into services over sharded MySQL (Vitess) + HBase. Search/pricing are in-house ML. Created Apache Airflow; AI customer-support uses LLMs.

Airbyte

Data · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Open-source data integration; connectors + AI assist via partner LLMs.

Airtable

Productivity · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: MySQL, Redis

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

Low-code database whose 'spreadsheet-database' is backed by MySQL with heavy Redis caching on AWS. Airtable AI/Cobuilder routes to OpenAI and Anthropic.

Aleph Alpha

AI/LLM · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Pharia / Luminous (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: GDPR, ISO 27001

German sovereign-AI lab training its own Pharia/Luminous models with explainability for gov/regulated EU.

Ambience

Healthcare AI · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Ambience clinical (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: vector

Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2

Ambient documentation with its own clinical models plus OpenAI, grounded in encounter audio.

Amplitude

Analytics · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Anthropic Claude (and other Bedrock foundation models) — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); GPT-family (historical/experimental, inferred) — Direct API

Stack: Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Kafka (streaming), Redis/ElastiCache, proprietary columnar analytics store

Compliance: SOC 2 (inferred), ISO 27001 (inferred), GDPR (inferred), CCPA (inferred)

Amplitude runs a high-throughput event analytics platform on AWS with Kafka-based ingestion, DynamoDB/Redis for state and caching, and a proprietary columnar datastore optimized for behavioral analytics, plus AI Agents powered via Amazon Bedrock. Core production services are containerized and orchestrated with Kubernetes and Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code.[5][7]

Anduril

Defense · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Lattice / own models — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: FedRAMP, IL5

Defense-autonomy on its Lattice OS with its own perception/autonomy models on the edge.

Anthropic

AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Claude (own frontier) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object storage, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 42001

Trains the Claude family across Google Cloud TPUs and AWS Trainium (both partners/investors). Pioneered the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool/data connectivity around its models.

Asana

Productivity · Hybrid · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4 class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL, Amazon Aurora (MySQL-compatible), Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse (inferred)

Compliance: SOC 2 (inferred), ISO 27001 (inferred), GDPR, CCPA

Asana runs a large-scale, stateful, microservice-style backend with autoscaling infrastructure and a dedicated Production Infrastructure pod for observability and platform reliability, layered behind a multi-region, hybrid cloud deployment. Its data stack separates transactional MySQL/Aurora stores from analytical event pipelines and a cloud data warehouse used by growth and analytics teams.

AT&T

Telecom · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); partner LLM — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

Telecom; in-house network ML plus partner LLMs (Ask AT&T on Azure OpenAI) for employees.

Atlassian

DevTools · AWS · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP (Moderate)

Jira/Confluence migrated to an AWS-native multi-tenant platform (Micros) on PostgreSQL + DynamoDB. Atlassian Intelligence wraps OpenAI behind a tenancy/governance layer.

Autodesk

Design/Eng · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Autodesk AI (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); partner LLM — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: PostgreSQL, own

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Design/CAD cloud with its own generative-design models plus partner LLMs for assistants.

BambooHR

HR · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2

SMB HR platform; AI assist on OpenAI over employee data.

Baseten

AI-infra · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA

Model-inference platform serving open models (Llama, etc.) on autoscaling GPU infra.

Benchling

Biotech SaaS · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, GxP

R&D cloud for life sciences; AI assistants on OpenAI over experimental data.

Best Buy

Retail · GCP · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: own, MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Retailer using Google Cloud Gemini for support + shopping assistants over its catalog.

Block

FinTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Cash App Money Bot + Square Managerbot run on Anthropic Claude (Sonnet) and OpenAI GPT via Block’s open-source goose agent framework (Claude is goose’s default on Databricks).

BNP Paribas

Banking (EU) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Mistral — Direct API (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

European bank; in-house risk ML plus Mistral for EU-sovereign generative AI.

Booking.com

Travel · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own, Cassandra

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Travel marketplace; huge own ranking/pricing ML plus OpenAI for the AI Trip Planner.

Box

Storage · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure); Claude — Direct API

Stack: MySQL, HBase

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA

Box AI is explicitly multi-model — routes across OpenAI, Google and Anthropic over enterprise content.

Brex

FinTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL, Kafka

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

AWS-based corporate-card/spend platform on PostgreSQL with Kafka eventing. Brex Assistant uses OpenAI/Anthropic over its own financial data and an agentic spend layer.

bunq

FinTech (EU) · Hybrid · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: PCI DSS, GDPR

European neobank; Finn AI assistant on OpenAI over account data.

ByteDance

Social/Consumer · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Doubao (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own, MySQL

Compliance: GDPR

TikTok parent; trains its own Doubao foundation models + massive recommendation ML on its own infra.

Canva

Design · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Leonardo (own, acquired) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT-4-class — Direct API

Stack: MySQL, DynamoDB

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

Massive consumer design platform on AWS with MySQL + DynamoDB and a WASM-accelerated rendering pipeline. Magic Studio blends in-house generative models with partners (incl. acquired Leonardo.ai).

Carta

FinTech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance:

Carta operates a proprietary, cloud-based equity and private capital management platform, most likely hosted on AWS using a relational database such as PostgreSQL. Public information focuses on product capabilities rather than disclosing detailed production architecture, so deeper specifics cannot be reliably verified.

Cerebras

AI-hardware · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Designs wafer-scale AI chips and serves open models (Llama) at record speed on its own systems.

Chainguard

DevSecOps · Multi-Cloud · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP

Secure-by-default container images + supply-chain security; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Character.AI

Consumer AI · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Character models (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object, vector

Compliance: GDPR

Trains + serves its own conversational models on Google Cloud (team since rejoined Google).

Checkout.com

FinTech · Hybrid · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: own, PostgreSQL

Compliance: PCI DSS, SOC 2

Global payments processor on its own infrastructure; large in-house fraud/risk ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Chegg

EdTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Study platform blending its own content ML with OpenAI for its learning assistant.

Chime

FinTech · AWS · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: Claude (family: Claude 2/3, exact variant not specified) — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: Snowflake, MySQL, DynamoDB

Compliance:

Chime runs a proprietary fintech platform on AWS, using S3, Airflow and Spark-based data pipelines that write to Snowflake and then propagate to MySQL and DynamoDB for operational and analytics use.[1][5] AI capabilities, including call summarization, are integrated via Amazon Bedrock into this core architecture rather than being a standalone LLM-native product.[5]

ClickHouse

Database · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: ClickHouse

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Open-source columnar OLAP DB; AI features plug partner LLMs over its analytics engine.

Clio

Legaltech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Legal practice-management cloud; Clio Duo AI on OpenAI over matter/document data.

Cloudflare

Infrastructure · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama / Mistral (open) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: D1 (SQLite), Workers KV, R2, ClickHouse, Postgres

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI DSS

Operates its own global edge network of data centers (not a hyperscaler tenant). Developer platform: Workers (V8 isolates), D1/KV/R2 storage, and Workers AI serving open models at the edge.

Cognition (Devin)

AI-coding · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: SOC 2

Autonomous SWE agent (Devin) orchestrating Claude + GPT over its own long-horizon planning and code-execution sandboxes.

Cohere

AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Command (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object storage, vector store

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Enterprise-focused LLM lab training its own Command/Embed/Rerank models, served across clouds (Google Cloud, Oracle, AWS) and deployable in-VPC for data-sensitive customers. North platform targets RAG.

Coinbase

FinTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOC 1

AWS-native crypto exchange on MongoDB/PostgreSQL with DynamoDB for high-throughput paths; strong HSM/key-management and on-chain infra. Uses in-house risk ML and LLMs for support.

Comcast

Telecom/Media · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); partner LLM — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

Cable/media; own voice-remote + network ML plus partner LLMs for assistants.

Compass

Proptech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Real-estate brokerage platform; agent AI tools on OpenAI over listing/CRM data.

Confluent

Data Platform · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLMs — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: Apache Kafka, ksqlDB

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001

Managed Apache Kafka (Confluent Cloud) deployed across AWS/Azure/GCP with the Kora cloud-native engine; adds stream processing via Flink. Built around open Kafka with proprietary cloud tooling.

Contextual AI

AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Contextual RAG models (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: vector

Compliance: SOC 2

RAG-native enterprise platform training its own grounded language models.

CoreWeave

AI-infra · On-Prem · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

GPU hyperscaler renting NVIDIA capacity to AI labs; infrastructure layer, runs customers models not its own.

Coursera

EdTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Online learning; Coursera Coach + course generation on OpenAI over its catalog.

Covariant

Robotics · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: RFM-1 (own robotics foundation) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Warehouse robotics on RFM-1, its own robotics foundation model (team since joined Amazon).

Cresta

CX AI · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Cresta (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: vector, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Contact-center AI with its own real-time coaching models plus partner LLMs over call data.

CrowdStrike

Cybersecurity · AWS · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: partner LLM (Charlotte AI) — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: Cassandra, ScyllaDB, custom Threat Graph

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001

AWS-native endpoint security whose Threat Graph ingests trillions of events/week into Cassandra/ScyllaDB-class stores. Detection is in-house ML; Charlotte AI adds an LLM analyst over the graph.

Cruise

Autonomous · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Cruise driving ML (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

GM self-driving running its own perception/planning ML; restructured toward personal-vehicle autonomy.

Cursor

DevTools · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: SOC 2

AI code editor (Anysphere) leaning heavily on Anthropic Claude via Direct API over its own retrieval index.

Darktrace

Cybersecurity · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Self-Learning AI (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Self-Learning AI built in-house; models the network rather than calling an LLM.

Databricks

Data Platform · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: DBRX (own open model) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Llama (open) — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: Delta Lake (Parquet on object storage), Apache Spark

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO 27001

Lakehouse deployed into the customer's own cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), built on open Spark + Delta Lake. Ships its own open model DBRX and the Mosaic AI training/serving stack.

Datadog

Observability · Multi-Cloud · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: Claude — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO 27001

Runs primarily on AWS with significant GCP presence; ingests trillions of points/day through Kafka into Cassandra and custom time-series stores. Bits AI / Watchdog use in-house anomaly ML plus LLMs.

Dave

FinTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Neobank; in-house underwriting ML plus OpenAI for support/assistant.

dbt Labs

Data · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Analytics-engineering standard (dbt); Copilot AI is model-agnostic over the semantic layer.

Decagon

CX AI · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: vector, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

AI customer-support agents orchestrating Claude + GPT over a company knowledge base.

Deel

HR · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary); GPT-4-class (unspecified variant) — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL, SQL (unspecified relational), NoSQL (unspecified)

Compliance: SOC 2 (inferred, typical for payroll/HR SaaS), ISO 27001 (inferred), GDPR, Global payroll & tax compliance (multi-country)

Deel runs a proprietary, multi-tenant SaaS platform (app.deel.com / api.letsdeel.com) on AWS with separate sandbox and production environments, using relational and NoSQL databases behind REST APIs consumed by customers and integrations.[3][10][4] AI is incorporated primarily at the application and workflow layer to automate compliance, payroll, and HR processes, rather than as a foundational LLM-native architecture.[6][4]

DeepL

AI/Translation · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: DeepL models (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001

European MT leader training its own translation + writing models on its own EU infrastructure.

Deliveroo

FoodTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: own, PostgreSQL

Compliance: PCI DSS, SOC 2

Food delivery; own dispatch/ETA ML plus OpenAI for support.

Dell

Hardware/Enterprise · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Cohere — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Dell AI Factory packages on-prem open models (Llama) + partners (Cohere) for enterprise/sovereign deployment.

Discord

Communications · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: ScyllaDB (ex-Cassandra), MongoDB, Elixir/Rust services

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Runs on Google Cloud; publicly migrated trillions of messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB and uses Elixir + Rust for real-time gateway/voice. AI features (Clyde and successors) built on OpenAI.

Disney

Media · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); partner LLM — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

Media/parks; large in-house recommendation/VFX ML plus partner LLMs for assistants; cautious GenAI posture.

Doctolib

Healthcare (EU) · Hybrid · Direct API

Foundational models: Mistral — Direct API (primary)

Stack: own, PostgreSQL

Compliance: GDPR, HDS

European health-booking platform; AI assistants built on Mistral for EU data-sovereignty.

DoorDash

Marketplace · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: Aurora, CockroachDB

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

In-house logistics ML plus OpenAI for support + merchant tooling.

Dropbox

Storage · Hybrid · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL (Edgestore), custom blob store

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO 27001

Famously repatriated bulk file storage off AWS onto its own 'Magic Pocket' exabyte infrastructure while keeping some cloud for edge/compute. Metadata in sharded MySQL (Edgestore). Dropbox Dash AI uses OpenAI.

Duolingo

EdTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL, Redis

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Birdbrain in-house ML sets lesson difficulty; GPT-4 (Direct API) powers Roleplay + Explain-my-Answer.

Elastic

Search/Data · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: ELSER (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper

Stack: Elasticsearch

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Ships ELSER, its own retrieval model, and plugs partner LLMs for RAG.

Electronic Arts

Gaming · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); partner LLM — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

Game publisher; large in-house animation/matchmaking ML plus partner LLMs for tooling.

ElevenLabs

AI/Voice · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Eleven v3 speech synthesis — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Multilingual v2 speech synthesis — Native (own / self-hosted weights); Flash v2.5 speech synthesis — Native (own / self-hosted weights); Turbo v2.5 speech synthesis — Native (own / self-hosted weights); Eleven Music — Native (own / self-hosted weights); Scribe v2 Realtime (speech processing / transcription) — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: PostgreSQL, object storage

Compliance: SOC 2 (inferred), ISO 27001 (inferred)

ElevenLabs exposes proprietary speech, audio, and agent models via HTTPS REST, SSE streaming, and WebSocket APIs behind api.elevenlabs.io, backed by credit-based authentication and multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure designed for high concurrency and enterprise scalability.[1][7][9] Core value is provided by in-house deep learning voice and audio models rather than a foundational LLM as the primary engine.[2][5]

Epic Games

Gaming · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML (MetaHuman/animation) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, COPPA

Unreal Engine + Fortnite; in-house generative/animation ML (MetaHuman) on its own infra.

Epic Systems

Healthcare · Hybrid · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: GPT — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: InterSystems Cache, own

Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2

Dominant EHR on its own InterSystems stack; generative features run on Azure OpenAI via the Microsoft partnership.

EvolutionaryScale

Biotech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: ESM3 (own protein LLM) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Trains ESM3, its own frontier protein language model, for biological design.

Expedia

Travel · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: own, MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Travel platform; early OpenAI customer (Romie / trip planning) over its own travel-graph ML.

Faire

Wholesale · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Wholesale marketplace; own recommendation ML plus OpenAI for merchandising assistants.

Figma

Design · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Browser-based design tool whose moat is a custom C++ rendering/document engine shipped to the browser via WebAssembly. Metadata in sharded PostgreSQL on AWS; multiplayer via bespoke real-time sync servers.

Figure

Robotics · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Helix (own VLA) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

Humanoid robotics running Helix, its own vision-language-action model (built in-house after the OpenAI split).

Fireworks AI

AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Mistral — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Fast inference for open models on its own serving stack.

Fivetran

Data · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA

Managed data movement; AI features via partner LLMs over pipeline metadata.

Flexport

Logistics · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL, own

Compliance: SOC 2

Freight forwarding; in-house logistics ML plus OpenAI for ops assistants.

Flipkart

E-Commerce (India) · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own, MySQL

Compliance: PCI DSS, SOC 2

Indian commerce giant (Walmart-owned); own recommendation ML plus Gemini-based shopping assistants.

Flutterwave

FinTech (Africa) · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: PCI DSS, SOC 2

Pan-African payments; in-house fraud ML plus OpenAI for support.

Freshworks

SaaS (India) · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Freddy (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

CX/ITSM suite; Freddy AI blends its own models with OpenAI over customer data.

Fujitsu

IT (Japan) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Takane (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Cohere — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001

Builds Takane, its own enterprise Japanese LLM (with Cohere), for regulated/government use.

Ginkgo Bioworks

Biotech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own bio foundation models — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

Cell-programming foundry training its own biological/sequence models over massive lab data.

GitHub

DevTools · Azure · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: GPT-4-class (Copilot) — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: MySQL (Vitess), Redis, Elasticsearch

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001

Owned by Microsoft and migrating into Azure; the monolith is Ruby on Rails over horizontally sharded MySQL (Vitess) with a custom Git backend (Spokes/DGit). Copilot is built on OpenAI.

GitLab

DevTools · GCP · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: Claude — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, Redis

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP (IL2 in progress)

Single open-core Rails application on PostgreSQL, with GitLab.com running on GCP/GKE. GitLab Duo AI routes primarily to Anthropic and Google Vertex models.

Glean

Enterprise Search · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API; Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: vector, Elasticsearch

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Enterprise assistant that lets customers pick across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google over a permissions-aware index.

Grab

Super-app · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: own, MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

SEA super-app; large in-house logistics/fraud ML plus OpenAI for assistants.

Grafana Labs

Observability · Multi-Cloud · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4 class models (Grafana Assistant backend) — Direct API (primary)

Stack: Grafana Mimir, Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo, Prometheus, Object storage (AWS S3, GCS, Azure Blob)

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA (partial/BAA for specific offerings)

Grafana Cloud runs a SaaS observability platform built on its open source engines (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus) deployed across major public clouds with object storage backends like S3/GCS/Azure Blob for long‑term data. The core Grafana server is a Go backend with a React/TypeScript frontend that acts as a visualization and control plane over these distributed storage and query services.

Grammarly

Productivity · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own NLP (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Long-standing in-house NLP models plus GPT for generative rewriting.

Granola

Productivity AI · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: SOC 2

AI meeting-notes app built primarily on Anthropic Claude over transcribed audio.

Groq

AI Hardware · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Designs its own LPU inference chips; serves Llama + open models at extreme speed.

Gusto

HR/Payroll · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2

SMB payroll/HR; AI assistant features on OpenAI over payroll/benefits data.

Harvey

Legal AI · Azure · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: GPT — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: SOC 2

Legal-domain assistant built on OpenAI via Azure with bespoke legal retrieval.

HashiCorp

DevTools · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP

Now part of IBM; HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) for Terraform/Vault/Consul runs on AWS. Core tools are widely-adopted open-source (BSL-licensed) infra-as-code and secrets management.

Helsing

Defense · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Helsing models (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: GDPR

European defense-AI training its own perception/decision models on sovereign infrastructure.

Hex

Analytics · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Collaborative data notebook; Magic AI routes to OpenAI + Anthropic over warehouse queries.

Hippo

Insurtech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Home insurer on in-house underwriting/imagery ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Hippocratic AI

Healthcare · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Polaris (own healthcare LLM) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: vector

Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2

Trains Polaris, its own safety-focused healthcare LLM constellation for patient-facing agents.

Honeycomb

Observability · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary)

Stack: own columnar

Compliance: SOC 2

Observability platform; its Query Assistant is built on Anthropic Claude over telemetry.

HubSpot

CRM · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: HBase, MySQL, Kafka

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

AWS-native marketing/CRM suite built on a large HBase + MySQL backbone with Kafka event streaming. AI ('Breeze'/ChatSpot) wraps OpenAI plus in-house models over first-party CRM data.

Hugging Face

AI/LLM · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama / Mistral / open models — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: S3 object storage, Git LFS, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

The model/dataset hub on AWS, storing weights as Git LFS repos over S3 and running Inference Endpoints/Spaces. Stewards open libraries (Transformers, Diffusers) — the open-source center of gravity for ML.

Inflection AI

AI/LLM · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Inflection (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Trains its own Inflection models (now enterprise-focused) on Azure supercompute.

Insilico Medicine

Biotech · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Chemistry42 / own models — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Generative-chemistry drug discovery on its own target-discovery + molecule-generation models.

Instacart

Marketplace · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, BigQuery

Compliance: SOC 2

Own catalog/logistics ML; an early, prominent OpenAI customer for search + Ask Instacart.

Intercom

Support · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL, MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Fin support agent runs on Anthropic + OpenAI over a customer help-content index.

Intuit

FinTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: GenOS (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Claude — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: PostgreSQL, own

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Intuit Assist runs on its own GenOS platform with partner LLMs underneath.

Ironclad

Legaltech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: SOC 2

Contract-lifecycle platform; AI contract review/drafting on OpenAI + Anthropic.

Isomorphic Labs

Biotech · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: AlphaFold-derived models (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: GDPR

Alphabet drug-discovery lab building on its own AlphaFold-lineage structure/biology models.

Jasper

Marketing AI · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Marketing copy platform orchestrating OpenAI + Anthropic over brand context.

John Deere

AgTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML (See & Spray/autonomy) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001

Precision-ag + autonomy on large in-house computer-vision/ML models running on equipment edge.

Khan Academy

EdTech · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: own, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, COPPA

Khanmigo tutor built on OpenAI GPT-4 over its learning content, with heavy safety scaffolding.

Klarna

FinTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

AWS-native BNPL that built its customer-service assistant directly on OpenAI, reportedly handling two-thirds of chats.

Klaviyo

Marketing · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: MySQL, Cassandra

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Marketing automation; own predictive ML plus OpenAI for content over its customer-data platform.

LangChain

AI Framework · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLMs — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Orchestration framework + LangSmith observability; sits between apps and any model.

Lemonade

Insurtech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

AI-first insurer running large in-house underwriting/claims ML (AI Maya/Jim); off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

LG

Electronics (Korea) · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: EXAONE (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001

Trains EXAONE, its own foundation models, for products/enterprise on its own infrastructure.

Lightning AI

AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Builds PyTorch Lightning + a studio to train/serve open models (Llama, etc.) on cloud GPUs.

Linear

DevTools · GCP · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB

Compliance:

Linear’s CTO has described the production stack as running on Google Cloud with Kubernetes, using React and Node/TypeScript, with Postgres for primary storage, Redis for queuing, and MongoDB for caching scenarios. The only clearly documented AI-related capability in the provided sources is product-level “AI workflows”; no source here establishes a specific foundational LLM provider in the core production architecture, so model_links is empty.

Liquid AI

AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Liquid LFM (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

MIT-spinout training its own non-transformer Liquid Foundation Models for efficient/edge inference.

Lovable

AI-coding · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

AI app builder leaning on Anthropic Claude to generate full-stack apps from prompts.

Lowe\u2019s

Retail · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Home-improvement retailer on Google Cloud; Gemini-based associate/customer assistants + own ML.

Lyft

Mobility · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: MySQL, DynamoDB

Compliance: SOC 2

In-house pricing/ETA ML; off the LLM map at the core.

Magic

AI-coding · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Magic LTM (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance:

Builds its own ultra-long-context (LTM) code models for autonomous software engineering.

Marqeta

FinTech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: PCI DSS, SOC 2

Card-issuing platform; in-house risk ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Mercado Libre

E-Commerce · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: own, MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

LatAm commerce/fintech giant; large in-house recommendation/fraud ML plus OpenAI for assistants.

Mercedes-Benz

Automotive · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001, GDPR

In-car MBUX assistant on Google Cloud Gemini; large in-house ADAS/vehicle ML.

Mercury

FinTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Startup banking; AI assist on OpenAI over transaction data.

Microsoft

Platform · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Phi (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: SQL Server, Cosmos DB

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA

Owns the Phi small-model family and, via its OpenAI stake + Azure, sits as close to GPT as anyone.

Midjourney

Image AI · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Midjourney (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: GDPR

Trains + serves its own diffusion image models; famously lean infra.

Miro

Collaboration · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Visual canvas; AI features on OpenAI.

Mistral AI

AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Mistral / Mixtral (own open weights) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object storage

Compliance: GDPR, SOC 2 (in progress)

European lab releasing strong open-weight models (Mistral/Mixtral) alongside commercial ones; serves via its own La Plateforme and partner clouds (Azure, GCP). Le Chat is the consumer surface. Data-sovereignty positioning.

monday.com

Productivity · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL, Vitess

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Work OS; AI blocks on OpenAI over board data.

MongoDB

Database · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner embeddings/LLMs — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: MongoDB

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001

Atlas runs the MongoDB document database as a managed service across AWS, Azure and GCP. Atlas Vector Search makes it a RAG datastore; AI features integrate partner LLMs rather than a captive model.

N26

FinTech (EU) · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: PCI DSS, GDPR

European neobank on in-house fraud/risk ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Naver

Internet · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: HyperCLOVA X (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: GDPR

Korean platform training HyperCLOVA X, its own sovereign Korean-first foundation models.

Neon

Database · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL (pgvector)

Compliance: SOC 2

Serverless Postgres (now Databricks); AI via pgvector + partner embeddings.

Netflix

Streaming Media · Hybrid · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: Cassandra, EVCache, CockroachDB, Elasticsearch

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001

Control plane runs almost entirely on AWS over Cassandra/EVCache; video delivery uses its own Open Connect CDN appliances embedded in ISPs worldwide. Famous OSS culture and ML-driven recommendations.

Notion

Productivity · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL (sharded)

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

Block-based docs stored in a heavily sharded PostgreSQL fleet on AWS (publicly documented re-sharding to hundreds of shards). Notion AI routes to OpenAI and Anthropic models.

Nubank

FinTech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: Cassandra, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Heavy in-house ML (acquired Hyperplane); off the LLM map at the core.

Okta

Cybersecurity · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP (High), ISO 27001

AWS-native identity cloud (workforce + Auth0 customer identity) on MySQL/DynamoDB with a multi-tenant cell architecture. AI is in-house threat-detection ML plus assistant LLMs.

OpenAI

AI/LLM · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: GPT (own frontier) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, blob storage

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA

Trains and serves its own GPT frontier models on Microsoft Azure supercomputers (custom GPU clusters). Product data on Azure stores; the API/Responses platform fronts the models for developers.

OpenEvidence

Healthcare AI · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: OpenEvidence medical (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: vector

Compliance: HIPAA

Medical-evidence answer engine on its own models trained over peer-reviewed literature.

Oracle

Enterprise · On-Prem · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: Cohere Command — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); Llama — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: Oracle

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA

Runs its own OCI; OCI Generative AI hosts Cohere + Llama for enterprise.

Orange

Telecom (EU) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Mistral — Direct API (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own

Compliance: GDPR

European telecom partnering with Mistral for sovereign LLMs over its own network ML.

Palantir

Govtech/Data · Hybrid · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: GPT — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); Claude — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own, PostgreSQL

Compliance: FedRAMP, SOC 2, IL5

AIP orchestrates partner LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic) inside customer security boundaries over its ontology.

Palo Alto Networks

Cybersecurity · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Precision AI (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: BigQuery, own

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP

Runs Precision AI, its own security ML, over a huge telemetry lake.

Patreon

Creator · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Creator-membership platform; AI features on OpenAI.

PayPal

FinTech · Hybrid · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: Oracle, own

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Massive in-house fraud/risk ML on its own infrastructure; off the LLM map at the core.

Perplexity

AI/Search · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Sonar (own, fine-tuned) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT-4-class — Direct API; NVIDIA Nemotron — Direct API

Stack: vector store, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Answer engine on AWS combining a real-time search/index layer with RAG over multiple LLMs; serves its own fine-tuned Sonar models plus frontier and open models. Exposes a metered Sonar API + Agent API.

Physical Intelligence

Robotics · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: π0 (own robot foundation) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Trains π0, its own general robot-control foundation model across embodiments.

Pinecone

AI Infrastructure · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner embedding models — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: proprietary vector database

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001

Managed vector database for RAG, deployed across AWS/GCP/Azure with a serverless architecture that separates storage (object store) from query compute. The index, not a model, is the product.

Pinterest

Social · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Navigator-1 (own, open-source-based) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Qwen (open) — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: HBase, MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Built Navigator-1, its own multimodal foundation model (fine-tuned from open-source bases incl. Qwen) powering the Pinterest Assistant at ~10% the cost of frontier models; big in-house recommendation ML.

Plaid

FinTech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

AWS-hosted financial-data network connecting apps to banks; MongoDB + PostgreSQL behind a heavy data-normalization and anti-fraud ML layer. AI is in-house risk/identity models, not a public LLM brand.

Poe (Quora)

AI Aggregator · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLMs (aggregator) — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: GDPR

Consumer multi-model aggregator fronting OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and open models behind one app.

Poolside

AI-coding · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: poolside (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Trains its own code-generation foundation models from scratch for enterprise/regulated deployment.

Postman

DevTools · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

API platform; Postbot AI on OpenAI over API specs/collections.

Procore

Construction SaaS · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Construction-management cloud; AI agents on OpenAI over project/document data.

Qdrant

AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner embeddings — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: vector

Compliance: SOC 2

Open-source vector database for RAG; model-agnostic.

Rabbit

Consumer AI · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLMs (multi) — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: GDPR

AI hardware (r1); routes to multiple partner LLMs behind a large-action-model orchestration layer.

Rakuten

E-Commerce (Japan) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Rakuten AI (own LLM) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001

Japanese commerce/fintech ecosystem training its own Japanese-first Rakuten AI models.

Ramp

FinTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

AWS-native finance-automation/corporate-card platform on PostgreSQL, AI-first in positioning: LLM agents (OpenAI/Anthropic) automate expense categorization, approvals and procurement over transaction data.

Razorpay

FinTech (India) · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: MySQL, PostgreSQL

Compliance: PCI DSS, SOC 2

Indian payments; in-house fraud/risk ML plus OpenAI for support assistants.

RBC

Banking · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Cohere Command — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, OSFI

Canadian bank running large in-house risk ML; Cohere models deployed in-VPC for sovereign generative AI (Borealis AI).

Recursion

Biotech · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Recursion Phenom (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: BigQuery, own

Compliance: SOC 2

Drug discovery on its own phenomics foundation models trained over petabytes of cellular imaging.

Reddit

Social Media · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Memcached

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA

AWS-hosted; a Python/Pylons heritage over PostgreSQL with Cassandra and heavy Memcached caching, moving to Go/GraphQL services. Monetizes data licensing for AI training; Reddit Answers uses LLMs.

Reka AI

AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Reka Core / Flash (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Multimodal frontier lab (ex-DeepMind/Meta) training its own Reka model family.

Reliance Jio

Telecom (India) · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: BharatGPT / Jio Brain (own+partner) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001

Telecom/digital giant building sovereign Indian-language models (Jio Brain / BharatGPT) on its own infrastructure.

Replicate

AI Infra · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Runs open models as one-click APIs on its own GPU fleet.

Replit

DevTools · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL (Neon), object

Compliance: SOC 2

Cloud IDE whose Agent is built primarily on Anthropic Claude.

Retool

DevTools · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Internal-tools builder with multi-model AI app components.

Revolut

FinTech · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

In-house risk ML plus OpenAI for support/assistant features.

Riot Games

Gaming · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

League/Valorant maker; in-house anti-cheat + matchmaking ML on its own infra; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Rippling

HR/IT · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: MySQL, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Workforce platform; AI agents on OpenAI + Anthropic over the employee graph.

Rivian

Automotive · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML (autonomy/vision) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001

EV maker training its own driver-assist/vehicle ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core of the product.

Robin AI

Legaltech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: SOC 2

Contract-AI platform built primarily on Anthropic Claude over legal documents.

Robinhood

FinTech · AWS · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: Amazon Nova — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: MySQL, Cassandra

Compliance: SOC 2

Cortex investing assistant (Digests) runs on Amazon Nova via Bedrock, chosen for ~80% lower per-token cost; core trading/risk stays in-house ML. Now also exposes agent-trading APIs.

Roblox

Gaming · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Roblox Assistant (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: MongoDB, own

Compliance: SOC 2, COPPA

UGC gaming platform on its own data centers; trains its own generative models for 3D/code creation assistants.

Root

Insurtech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Telematics auto-insurer on in-house pricing/driving ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Runway

Video AI · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Gen (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object, vector

Compliance: SOC 2

Trains its own Gen video-generation foundation models.

Salesforce

CRM · Hybrid · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); Claude — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: Oracle, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, PCI DSS

Long-running first-party data centers now extended onto public cloud via Hyperforce (AWS-backed). Multi-tenant metadata engine historically on Oracle, migrating workloads toward PostgreSQL; Einstein layers third-party LLMs behind a trust boundary.

SambaNova

AI-hardware · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Samba-1 (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Llama — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Own RDU AI chips plus its Samba-1 model and hosted open models for enterprise/government.

Samsara

IoT · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: own time-series, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Connected-operations (fleet/IoT); large own ML on sensor/video telemetry; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

SAP

Enterprise · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: SAP ABAP LLM (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Claude — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure); GPT — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure); Mistral / Cohere (sovereign) — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: HANA

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Joule is multi-model: SAP’s own ABAP LLM plus a Generative AI Hub fronting OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic (Claude powers Joule agents), Llama, and sovereign Mistral/Cohere on SAP cloud.

Scale AI

AI/Data · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Defense Llama (own, Llama-3 fine-tuned) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); frontier models (eval/RLHF) — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001

Beyond data-labeling, Scale trains its own Defense Llama (fine-tuned Llama 3) for U.S. national security on its Donovan federal platform; evaluates frontier models for the DoD CDAO.

SentinelOne

Cybersecurity · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Ultraviolet (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Claude — Direct API; GPT — Direct API

Stack: own, Snowflake

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP

Purple AI combines SentinelOne’s own Ultraviolet models with Anthropic Claude + OpenAI GPT over its Singularity data lake; exposes a Purple MCP server for agentic SOC investigation.

Sentry

DevTools · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse

Compliance: SOC 2

Error-monitoring; Autofix/Seer uses OpenAI + Anthropic over stack traces.

ServiceNow

Enterprise · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Now LLM (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: MariaDB, own

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001

Trains its own Now Assist LLMs (with NVIDIA) on its workflow data.

ServiceTitan

Vertical SaaS · Azure · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: GPT — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: SQL Server

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Trades/field-services SaaS on Azure; AI assistants via Azure OpenAI over job/CRM data.

Shield AI

Defense · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Hivemind (own autonomy) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: FedRAMP

Builds Hivemind, its own autonomy foundation for GPS/comms-denied flight.

Shopify

E-Commerce · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class (Magic/Sidekick) — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL (Vitess), Redis, Kafka

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS Level 1, ISO 27001

Migrated to Google Cloud; a Rails 'majestic monolith' sharded into pods over MySQL (Vitess) with Kafka. Shopify Magic/Sidekick AI uses OpenAI; storefront stack (Hydrogen/Remix) is open-source.

Siemens

Industrial · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own, SQL Server

Compliance: ISO 27001

Industrial Copilot built with Microsoft on Azure OpenAI over its own engineering/automation ML.

Sierra

CX AI · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: SOC 2

Conversational-AI agents (Bret Taylor) built multi-model but Anthropic-forward.

Slack

Collaboration · AWS · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: Claude — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: MySQL (Vitess), Kafka

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, FINRA

AWS-native messaging backbone on horizontally sharded MySQL via Vitess, with a job queue and Kafka. Slack AI search/summarization is built on Anthropic models under a Salesforce trust boundary.

Smartsheet

SaaS · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: SQL Server

Compliance: SOC 2

Work-management platform; AI formulas/summaries on OpenAI over sheet data.

Snap

Social · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary); Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: Spanner, BigQuery

Compliance: SOC 2

My AI assistant runs on OpenAI + Google; heavy in-house vision ML elsewhere.

Snowflake

Data Platform · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama / Mistral (open) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Claude — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: proprietary columnar engine on object storage (S3/Blob/GCS), FoundationDB (metadata)

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP (High), PCI DSS

Cloud data warehouse that runs as a tenant across AWS, Azure and GCP, separating compute from storage on object stores; metadata in FoundationDB. Cortex serves hosted LLMs next to the data.

Snyk

Cybersecurity · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: DeepCode AI (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

Developer-security platform on GCP/AWS scanning code and dependencies; DeepCode AI combines symbolic analysis with ML for fix suggestions. Backed by a curated open-source vulnerability database.

SoFi

FinTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Digital finance; in-house risk ML plus OpenAI for member support/assistant.

SoftBank

Conglomerate (Japan) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); partner LLM — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001

Telecom/investment group building its own Japanese LLMs (Sarashina) plus partner models; major AI-infra investor.

SpaceX

Aerospace · Hybrid · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: own

Compliance: ITAR

Rockets + Starlink; massive in-house autonomy/vision/control ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Spellbook

Legaltech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: SOC 2

AI contract drafting in Word, built on OpenAI with legal-tuned retrieval.

Spotify

Streaming Media · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class (AI DJ) — Direct API (primary)

Stack: Cassandra, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Bigtable

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001

Migrated off its own data centers to Google Cloud (BigQuery/Bigtable/Pub-Sub) with Cassandra for serving. Recommendations are in-house ML; AI DJ uses OpenAI + its own voice. Created the open Backstage platform.

Squarespace

Website Builder · Hybrid · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR

Website/commerce builder historically on its own data centers, increasingly cloud-hybrid; polyglot persistence (MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra). AI site-generation and copy use OpenAI.

Stellantis

Automotive (EU) · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Mistral — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001, GDPR

Automaker (Jeep/Peugeot/Fiat) embedding Mistral in-vehicle plus its own ADAS ML.

Stripe

FinTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Stripe payments foundation model (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: MongoDB, custom sharded DB (DocDB)

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS Level 1, HIPAA

AWS-based payments platform built on a large MongoDB deployment fronted by an in-house sharding/transaction layer (DocDB). Radar fraud detection is in-house ML; a payments foundation model was trained on transaction data.

Substack

Media · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Publishing platform; AI writing/discovery features on OpenAI.

Suki

Healthcare AI · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Suki clinical (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: vector

Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2

Ambient clinical assistant blending its own medical models with partner LLMs.

Suno

Audio AI · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Suno (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: GDPR

Trains + serves its own music-generation models.

Supabase

DevTools · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL (pgvector)

Compliance: SOC 2

Postgres backend-as-a-service; AI via pgvector + partner embeddings.

Tabnine

AI-coding · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Tabnine (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Claude — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: vector

Compliance: SOC 2

Privacy-first code assistant with its own models plus optional partner LLMs, deployable air-gapped.

Target

Retail · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Retailer on Google Cloud; store-companion + guest AI on Gemini over its own merchandising ML.

Temporal

Dev-infra · Multi-Cloud · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: Cassandra, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Durable-execution platform; model-agnostic orchestration, off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Tempus

Healthcare · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Tempus genomic/clinical ML (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: BigQuery, own

Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2

Precision-medicine platform with its own multimodal genomic/clinical models plus LLMs for clinician copilots.

Tencent

Internet · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Hunyuan (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: GDPR

Chinese internet giant training its own Hunyuan foundation models on its own data centers.

Tesla

Automotive · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Tesla FSD / world model (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

Trains its own end-to-end driving + world models on the Dojo/GPU stack; vision-only FSD.

The Trade Desk

AdTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Kokai ML (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own columnar, Aerospike

Compliance: SOC 2

Programmatic ad DSP; Kokai is its own large-scale bidding/forecasting ML over trillions of ad-auction events.

ThoughtSpot

Analytics · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Spotter (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: own, Falcon

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Search/AI analytics; Spotter agent blends its own engine with OpenAI over the in-memory data store.

Toast

Restaurant SaaS · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, Kafka

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Restaurant POS/platform; AI menu/ops assistants on OpenAI over transaction data.

Together AI

AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Llama — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Mistral — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: object

Compliance: SOC 2

Serves open models (Llama, Mistral, etc.) on its own GPU cloud — the infrastructure to run Native.

TomTom

Mapping · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own

Compliance: ISO 27001, GDPR

Mapping/location; own routing/map ML plus a Microsoft-partnered conversational in-car assistant on Azure OpenAI.

Torq

Cybersecurity · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Security hyperautomation; routes partner LLMs through its SOC workflow engine.

Twilio

Communications · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR

AWS-native communications APIs (voice/SMS/email via SendGrid) over MySQL + DynamoDB with Kafka eventing. Owns the Segment CDP; CustomerAI layers LLMs over unified customer profiles.

Uber

Mobility · Hybrid · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: partner LLM — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: MySQL (Schemaless), Cassandra, Apache Pinot

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001

Hybrid: long-running own data centers now paired with Oracle Cloud and Google Cloud. Storage on Schemaless (MySQL), Cassandra and Pinot for real-time analytics. Michelangelo is its in-house ML platform.

Udemy

EdTech · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Learning marketplace; AI assistant + course tools on OpenAI.

Unity

Gaming/3D · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); partner LLM — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

Real-time 3D engine; Muse AI blends partner LLMs with its own generative tooling for creators.

Vanta

Compliance · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Security-compliance automation; AI questionnaire/evidence features on OpenAI.

Veeva

Healthcare · AWS · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: partner LLM — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: Oracle, own

Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2, GxP

Life-sciences cloud; Veeva AI exposes partner LLMs over regulated CRM/clinical data with a governance layer.

Vercel

DevTools · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: PostgreSQL (Neon), Redis, object storage

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

Frontend cloud built atop AWS, exposing a global edge + serverless/Functions layer; stewards the open-source Next.js framework. v0 AI is built on OpenAI/Anthropic models.

Verizon

Telecom · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2

Telecom running its own network ML; customer/agent assistants on Google Cloud Gemini.

Walmart

Retail · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Wallaby (own retail LLMs) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: own, Azure

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Trains Wallaby, its own retail-tuned LLMs, alongside partner LLMs for its shopping super-assistant; huge in-house ML.

Watershed

Climate · GCP · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Carbon-accounting platform; AI features on OpenAI over emissions data.

Wayfair

E-Commerce · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary); own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Stack: own, MySQL

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

Home-goods retailer on Google Cloud; in-house recommendation/visual ML plus Gemini (Vertex) for shopping assistants.

Waymo

Autonomous · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Waymo Foundation Model (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: Bigtable, Spanner, own

Compliance: SOC 2

Self-driving (Alphabet) running its own multimodal driving foundation models on Google Cloud TPUs.

Wayve

Autonomous · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: GAIA / LINGO (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: GDPR

Embodied-AI driving with its own generative world models (GAIA) and vision-language driving models (LINGO).

Wealthfront

FinTech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

Automated investing on in-house quantitative ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.

Weaviate

AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner embeddings — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: vector

Compliance: SOC 2

Open-source vector database; the index, not a model, is the product.

Webflow

Website Builder · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT-4-class — Direct API (primary); Claude — Direct API

Stack: MongoDB, MySQL, Redis

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Visual web-development platform on AWS; MongoDB for the flexible CMS/site model with MySQL/Redis support. AI assists site generation and content via OpenAI/Anthropic.

Weights & Biases

MLOps · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: object, ClickHouse

Compliance: SOC 2

ML experiment-tracking + LLMOps (Weave); model-agnostic, runs over customers chosen models.

Wendy\u2019s

QSR · GCP · Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure)

Foundational models: Gemini — Cloud-hosted (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, PCI DSS

FreshAI drive-thru ordering built on Google Cloud Gemini over menu/voice data.

Windsurf (Codeium)

AI-coding · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: Claude — Direct API (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: vector, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

AI IDE (formerly Codeium) routing to Claude + GPT over its own retrieval/indexing engine.

Wise

FinTech · AWS · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2

In-house ML for FX/fraud; no core foundational-LLM dependency.

Wix

Website Builder · Hybrid · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL, own

Compliance: SOC 2, GDPR

Site builder; AI site/content generation on OpenAI.

Wiz

Cybersecurity · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLM — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: graph database, PostgreSQL

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

Agentless cloud security that scans customers' AWS/Azure/GCP via APIs and builds a Security Graph of risks. Now part of Google Cloud; AI adds LLM-driven risk explanation over the graph.

Workday

HR · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Workday Illuminate LLM (own ~800B) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: MySQL, own

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Runs Illuminate, its own ~800B-parameter LLM trained on HR/finance data from 10,500+ customers (800B transactions/yr) for privacy + enterprise fit; acquired Sana (2025) for custom AI agents.

Writer

Enterprise AI · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Palmyra (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: PostgreSQL, vector

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA

Trains + self-hosts its own Palmyra LLMs — a full-stack own-model enterprise play.

xAI

AI/LLM · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Grok (own frontier) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: object

Compliance: GDPR

Trains the Grok frontier family on its own Colossus supercluster; real-time data via X.

Yelp

Local/Internet · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: MySQL, Cassandra

Compliance: SOC 2

Local-discovery platform; own ranking/review ML plus OpenAI for its AI assistant.

You.com

AI Search · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Foundational models: partner LLMs (multi-model) — Middleware / wrapper (primary)

Stack: vector, Elasticsearch

Compliance: SOC 2

AI search/agent routing across multiple frontier + open models over its own web index.

Zendesk

Support · AWS · Direct API

Foundational models: GPT — Direct API (primary)

Stack: MySQL, Elasticsearch

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA

AWS-native support suite; AI agents + summarization on OpenAI.

Zillow

Proptech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML (Zestimate) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: own, SQL Server

Compliance: SOC 2

Real-estate marketplace; the Zestimate is large in-house valuation ML; natural-language search on OpenAI.

Zoho

SaaS (India) · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Zia / ZIA LLM (own) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary)

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, ISO 27001

Bootstrapped SaaS suite on its own Indian data centers; builds its own Zia AI models for privacy + cost control.

Zomato

FoodTech (India) · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: own ML — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); GPT — Direct API

Stack: own, PostgreSQL

Compliance: PCI DSS, SOC 2

Indian food-delivery; own logistics/recommendation ML plus OpenAI assistants.

Zoom

Communications · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)

Foundational models: Zoom SLM (own, federated) — Native (own / self-hosted weights) (primary); Claude — Direct API; GPT-4-class — Direct API

Stack: MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka

Compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, PCI DSS

Runs its own global data centers for real-time media, bursting to AWS/Oracle Cloud at peak. AI Companion uses a 'federated' approach blending its own models with Anthropic and OpenAI.

Zscaler

Cybersecurity · On-Prem · Off the LLM map (in-house non-LLM ML)

Foundational models: in-house non-LLM ML only

Stack: own

Compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP

Own global proxy cloud + in-house ML; off the LLM map at the core.

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