Frontier lab hiring signals

xAI is in a productize-and-distribute phase: its frontier work (Grok) lives behind the API while the public footprint is dominated by developer tooling and open-weight artifacts of prior…

Anthropic in mid-2026 is executing a multi-front strategy: securing unprecedented compute capacity across AWS, SpaceX, Google, and Microsoft to train and serve models at scale; building out…

OpenAI is operating on two fronts at once: a frontier-model release cadence aimed at consumers and developers, and a hard pivot into agentic developer tooling. Its public footprint right…

Mistral AI is executing a broad open-weights strategy across every modality and size tier at once: text instruct/reasoning models from 3B up to 128B, a Voxtral audio/speech family…

Cohere is an enterprise-focused LLM provider whose public footprint splits cleanly in two: a commercial Command line of general-purpose models and the open-weight, multilingual research…

Google DeepMind is running a two-front strategy: shipping the proprietary Gemini 2.5 frontier line (Pro, Flash, Flash-Lite, Deep Think, Computer Use) as the consumer/enterprise product,…

Amazon is betting its AI identity on agentic AI as the organizing principle. The evidence pack shows a coordinated push: multiple amazon.science posts on agent design patterns, open-source…

Baidu's public footprint reads as two tightly-coupled engines: the open-weight ERNIE 4.5 model family (dense 0.3B through a 424B-A47B MoE, with vision-language and "Thinking" reasoning…

ByteDance's Seed lab (Doubao/Seed) is shipping aggressively in the open, spanning a foundation-model line (Seed-OSS), specialized reasoning/coding/proving models, multimodal and 3D-vision…

DeepSeek is shipping open-weight models at scale while simultaneously open-sourcing systems infrastructure alongside them. Its public footprint is split between flagship reasoning/general…

Meta AI is the open-weight anchor of the frontier-model field: it ships the Llama family under permissive licenses and lets the ecosystem do distribution, while pivoting its newest…

Microsoft's public footprint is dominated by its developer-tools and platform empire — vscode (186k stars), PowerToys, TypeScript, terminal, and playwright — but the AI-specific signal sits…

MiniMax is shipping fast-iterating, open-weight large language models — the MiniMax-M2 family dominates its current footprint, with the latest MiniMax-M2.7 (~229B params) already pulling…

Moonshot AI (Kimi) is shipping open-weight, trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts frontier models at a fast iteration cadence — the Kimi-K2 line is its flagship, now through K2.5 and K2.6…

NVIDIA is positioning itself as the full-stack supplier of the "AI factory" era — selling not just silicon but open models, agent runtimes, and physical-AI foundation models that run on its…

Qwen (Alibaba Cloud) is running one of the most prolific open-weight release cadences in the field, shipping a full ladder of dense and Mixture-of-Experts models — currently the Qwen3.5 and…

Tencent Hunyuan is running broad on open-weight generative media — its public footprint skews heavily toward 3D, video, image, and world-model generation rather than chat LLMs. The…

Zhipu AI (GLM) is shipping a broad, fast-moving family of open-weight GLM models across text, vision, OCR, speech, and image generation, releasing point versions at high cadence (GLM-4.5…