124 companies that consume their foundational model at Native (own / self-hosted models) proximity — closest to the metal, cheapest tokens, most control. Avg Foundation Proximity Score 100/100.
Cybersecurity · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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]
Healthcare · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Ambient clinical-documentation AI with its own medical models plus partner LLMs, grounded in clinician audio.
Creative · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Runs Firefly, its own family of commercially-safe generative image/video models, alongside partner LLMs in Acrobat.
AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains Jamba, its own hybrid Mamba-Transformer long-context models.
AI/LLM · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
German sovereign-AI lab training its own Pharia/Luminous models with explainability for gov/regulated EU.
Healthcare AI · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Ambient documentation with its own clinical models plus OpenAI, grounded in encounter audio.
Defense · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Defense-autonomy on its Lattice OS with its own perception/autonomy models on the edge.
AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Telecom · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Telecom; in-house network ML plus partner LLMs (Ask AT&T on Azure OpenAI) for employees.
Design/Eng · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Design/CAD cloud with its own generative-design models plus partner LLMs for assistants.
AI-infra · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Model-inference platform serving open models (Llama, etc.) on autoscaling GPU infra.
Banking (EU) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
European bank; in-house risk ML plus Mistral for EU-sovereign generative AI.
Travel · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Travel marketplace; huge own ranking/pricing ML plus OpenAI for the AI Trip Planner.
Social/Consumer · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
TikTok parent; trains its own Doubao foundation models + massive recommendation ML on its own infra.
Design · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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).
AI-hardware · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Designs wafer-scale AI chips and serves open models (Llama) at record speed on its own systems.
Consumer AI · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains + serves its own conversational models on Google Cloud (team since rejoined Google).
EdTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Study platform blending its own content ML with OpenAI for its learning assistant.
Infrastructure · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Telecom/Media · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Cable/media; own voice-remote + network ML plus partner LLMs for assistants.
AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
RAG-native enterprise platform training its own grounded language models.
Robotics · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Warehouse robotics on RFM-1, its own robotics foundation model (team since joined Amazon).
CX AI · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Contact-center AI with its own real-time coaching models plus partner LLMs over call data.
Autonomous · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
GM self-driving running its own perception/planning ML; restructured toward personal-vehicle autonomy.
Cybersecurity · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Self-Learning AI built in-house; models the network rather than calling an LLM.
Data Platform · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
AI/Translation · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
European MT leader training its own translation + writing models on its own EU infrastructure.
FoodTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Food delivery; own dispatch/ETA ML plus OpenAI for support.
Hardware/Enterprise · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Dell AI Factory packages on-prem open models (Llama) + partners (Cohere) for enterprise/sovereign deployment.
Media · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Media/parks; large in-house recommendation/VFX ML plus partner LLMs for assistants; cautious GenAI posture.
Search/Data · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Ships ELSER, its own retrieval model, and plugs partner LLMs for RAG.
Gaming · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Game publisher; large in-house animation/matchmaking ML plus partner LLMs for tooling.
AI/Voice · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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]
Gaming · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Unreal Engine + Fortnite; in-house generative/animation ML (MetaHuman) on its own infra.
Biotech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains ESM3, its own frontier protein language model, for biological design.
Wholesale · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Wholesale marketplace; own recommendation ML plus OpenAI for merchandising assistants.
Robotics · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Humanoid robotics running Helix, its own vision-language-action model (built in-house after the OpenAI split).
AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Fast inference for open models on its own serving stack.
Logistics · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Freight forwarding; in-house logistics ML plus OpenAI for ops assistants.
E-Commerce (India) · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Indian commerce giant (Walmart-owned); own recommendation ML plus Gemini-based shopping assistants.
FinTech (Africa) · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Pan-African payments; in-house fraud ML plus OpenAI for support.
SaaS (India) · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
CX/ITSM suite; Freddy AI blends its own models with OpenAI over customer data.
IT (Japan) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Builds Takane, its own enterprise Japanese LLM (with Cohere), for regulated/government use.
Biotech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Cell-programming foundry training its own biological/sequence models over massive lab data.
Super-app · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
SEA super-app; large in-house logistics/fraud ML plus OpenAI for assistants.
Productivity · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Long-standing in-house NLP models plus GPT for generative rewriting.
AI Hardware · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Designs its own LPU inference chips; serves Llama + open models at extreme speed.
Defense · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
European defense-AI training its own perception/decision models on sovereign infrastructure.
Healthcare · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains Polaris, its own safety-focused healthcare LLM constellation for patient-facing agents.
AI/LLM · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
AI/LLM · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains its own Inflection models (now enterprise-focused) on Azure supercompute.
Biotech · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Generative-chemistry drug discovery on its own target-discovery + molecule-generation models.
FinTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Intuit Assist runs on its own GenOS platform with partner LLMs underneath.
Biotech · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Alphabet drug-discovery lab building on its own AlphaFold-lineage structure/biology models.
AgTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Precision-ag + autonomy on large in-house computer-vision/ML models running on equipment edge.
Marketing · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Marketing automation; own predictive ML plus OpenAI for content over its customer-data platform.
Electronics (Korea) · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains EXAONE, its own foundation models, for products/enterprise on its own infrastructure.
AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Builds PyTorch Lightning + a studio to train/serve open models (Llama, etc.) on cloud GPUs.
AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
MIT-spinout training its own non-transformer Liquid Foundation Models for efficient/edge inference.
Retail · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Home-improvement retailer on Google Cloud; Gemini-based associate/customer assistants + own ML.
AI-coding · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Builds its own ultra-long-context (LTM) code models for autonomous software engineering.
E-Commerce · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
LatAm commerce/fintech giant; large in-house recommendation/fraud ML plus OpenAI for assistants.
Automotive · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
In-car MBUX assistant on Google Cloud Gemini; large in-house ADAS/vehicle ML.
Platform · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Owns the Phi small-model family and, via its OpenAI stake + Azure, sits as close to GPT as anyone.
Image AI · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains + serves its own diffusion image models; famously lean infra.
AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Internet · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Korean platform training HyperCLOVA X, its own sovereign Korean-first foundation models.
AI/LLM · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Healthcare AI · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Medical-evidence answer engine on its own models trained over peer-reviewed literature.
Telecom (EU) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
European telecom partnering with Mistral for sovereign LLMs over its own network ML.
Cybersecurity · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Runs Precision AI, its own security ML, over a huge telemetry lake.
AI/Search · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Robotics · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains π0, its own general robot-control foundation model across embodiments.
Social · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
AI-coding · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains its own code-generation foundation models from scratch for enterprise/regulated deployment.
E-Commerce (Japan) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Japanese commerce/fintech ecosystem training its own Japanese-first Rakuten AI models.
FinTech (India) · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Indian payments; in-house fraud/risk ML plus OpenAI for support assistants.
Banking · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Canadian bank running large in-house risk ML; Cohere models deployed in-VPC for sovereign generative AI (Borealis AI).
Biotech · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Drug discovery on its own phenomics foundation models trained over petabytes of cellular imaging.
AI/LLM · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Multimodal frontier lab (ex-DeepMind/Meta) training its own Reka model family.
Telecom (India) · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Telecom/digital giant building sovereign Indian-language models (Jio Brain / BharatGPT) on its own infrastructure.
AI Infra · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Runs open models as one-click APIs on its own GPU fleet.
Gaming · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
League/Valorant maker; in-house anti-cheat + matchmaking ML on its own infra; off the foundational-LLM map at the core.
Automotive · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
EV maker training its own driver-assist/vehicle ML; off the foundational-LLM map at the core of the product.
Gaming · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
UGC gaming platform on its own data centers; trains its own generative models for 3D/code creation assistants.
Video AI · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains its own Gen video-generation foundation models.
AI-hardware · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Own RDU AI chips plus its Samba-1 model and hosted open models for enterprise/government.
Enterprise · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
AI/Data · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Cybersecurity · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Enterprise · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains its own Now Assist LLMs (with NVIDIA) on its workflow data.
Defense · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Builds Hivemind, its own autonomy foundation for GPS/comms-denied flight.
Industrial · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Industrial Copilot built with Microsoft on Azure OpenAI over its own engineering/automation ML.
Data Platform · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Cybersecurity · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Conglomerate (Japan) · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Telecom/investment group building its own Japanese LLMs (Sarashina) plus partner models; major AI-infra investor.
Automotive (EU) · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Automaker (Jeep/Peugeot/Fiat) embedding Mistral in-vehicle plus its own ADAS ML.
FinTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Healthcare AI · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Ambient clinical assistant blending its own medical models with partner LLMs.
Audio AI · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains + serves its own music-generation models.
AI-coding · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Privacy-first code assistant with its own models plus optional partner LLMs, deployable air-gapped.
Retail · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Retailer on Google Cloud; store-companion + guest AI on Gemini over its own merchandising ML.
Healthcare · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Precision-medicine platform with its own multimodal genomic/clinical models plus LLMs for clinician copilots.
Internet · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Chinese internet giant training its own Hunyuan foundation models on its own data centers.
Automotive · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains its own end-to-end driving + world models on the Dojo/GPU stack; vision-only FSD.
AdTech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Programmatic ad DSP; Kokai is its own large-scale bidding/forecasting ML over trillions of ad-auction events.
Analytics · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Search/AI analytics; Spotter agent blends its own engine with OpenAI over the in-memory data store.
AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Serves open models (Llama, Mistral, etc.) on its own GPU cloud — the infrastructure to run Native.
Mapping · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Mapping/location; own routing/map ML plus a Microsoft-partnered conversational in-car assistant on Azure OpenAI.
Gaming/3D · Multi-Cloud · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Real-time 3D engine; Muse AI blends partner LLMs with its own generative tooling for creators.
Telecom · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Telecom running its own network ML; customer/agent assistants on Google Cloud Gemini.
Retail · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains Wallaby, its own retail-tuned LLMs, alongside partner LLMs for its shopping super-assistant; huge in-house ML.
E-Commerce · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Home-goods retailer on Google Cloud; in-house recommendation/visual ML plus Gemini (Vertex) for shopping assistants.
Autonomous · GCP · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Self-driving (Alphabet) running its own multimodal driving foundation models on Google Cloud TPUs.
Autonomous · Azure · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Embodied-AI driving with its own generative world models (GAIA) and vision-language driving models (LINGO).
HR · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.
Enterprise AI · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains + self-hosts its own Palmyra LLMs — a full-stack own-model enterprise play.
AI/LLM · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Trains the Grok frontier family on its own Colossus supercluster; real-time data via X.
Local/Internet · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Local-discovery platform; own ranking/review ML plus OpenAI for its AI assistant.
Proptech · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Real-estate marketplace; the Zestimate is large in-house valuation ML; natural-language search on OpenAI.
SaaS (India) · On-Prem · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Bootstrapped SaaS suite on its own Indian data centers; builds its own Zia AI models for privacy + cost control.
FoodTech (India) · AWS · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Indian food-delivery; own logistics/recommendation ML plus OpenAI assistants.
Communications · Hybrid · Native (own / self-hosted weights)
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.