Alternatives to OpenAI
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If you're comparing OpenAI with other companies in AI & ML Platforms and AI Agents & Automation, start here. These are the 33 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
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AI & ML Platforms: OpenAI's main category
19 companies sit alongside OpenAI here, busiest first.
- Amazon Web Services#5 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…
- 190 stories in the last 90 days
Also in AI Agents & Automation
- Google Cloud#3 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…
- 82 stories in the last 90 days
Also in AI Agents & Automation
- Databricks#7 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Databricks is a data and AI company founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco. Its Data Intelligence Platform, built on a lakehouse…
- 65 stories in the last 90 days
- NVIDIA#6 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive…
- 55 stories in the last 90 days
- Snowflake#17 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Snowflake is a US cloud data platform company founded in 2012, with its principal executive office in Bozeman, Montana. Its AI Data Cloud runs on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google…
- 41 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#4 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
Also in AI Agents & Automation
- Anyscale#19 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Anyscale is a US AI infrastructure company founded in 2019 by the creators of Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework from UC Berkeley. Headquartered in San…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- Mistral AI#11 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company that develops large language models, including open-weight and commercial models such as Mistral Large, Mistral Medium…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Anthropic#2 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco. It develops the Claude family of large language models, offered through the…
Evidence is still building for Anthropic.
Also in AI Agents & Automation
- DataRobot#12 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
DataRobot is an AI platform company founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin and Tom de Godoy and based in Boston, Massachusetts. Known for pioneering automated machine learning (AutoML)…
- 1 story in the last 90 days
- Cohere#10 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Cohere is a Canadian enterprise AI company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto. It develops large language models, including Command for generation, Embed for semantic…
Evidence is still building for Cohere.
- Dataiku#13 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Dataiku is an enterprise AI and analytics platform company founded in Paris in 2013 by Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Marc Batty and Thomas Cabrol, and now headquartered in…
Evidence is still building for Dataiku.
- Domino Data Lab#15 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Domino Data Lab is an enterprise AI platform company founded in 2013 by Nick Elprin, Chris Yang and Matthew Granade and headquartered in San Francisco. Its Domino platform gives…
Evidence is still building for Domino Data Lab.
- H2O.ai#14 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
H2O.ai is a US AI company known for H2O, its open source distributed machine learning platform, and for Driverless AI, its automated machine learning product. Its H2O AI Cloud and…
Evidence is still building for H2O.ai.
- Hugging Face#9 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Hugging Face is an AI company that runs the Hugging Face Hub, a platform hosting open machine learning models, datasets and demo applications (Spaces), and maintains open source…
Evidence is still building for Hugging Face.
- IBM#8 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
Also in AI Agents & Automation
- Oracle#20 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…
Evidence is still building for Oracle.
- SAS#16 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
SAS, formally SAS Institute Inc., is a US analytics and AI software company headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, founded in 1976. Its flagship SAS Viya cloud-native platform…
Evidence is still building for SAS.
- Scale AI#18 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with OpenAI
Scale AI is a US artificial intelligence data company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo. It provides training data, data…
Evidence is still building for Scale AI.
AI Agents & Automation
14 companies sit alongside OpenAI here, busiest first. 5 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Zapier#14 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
Zapier is a US no-code automation company founded in 2011 in Columbia, Missouri, by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop, and headquartered in San Francisco as a remote-first…
- 70 stories in the last 90 days
- SAP#11 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
SAP is a German enterprise software company, SAP SE, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, and founded in 1972. It sells enterprise resource planning software, notably SAP S/4HANA…
- 47 stories in the last 90 days
- LangChain#16 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
LangChain is a software company that develops open-source frameworks and commercial tooling for building applications and agents on large language models. Its products include the…
- 40 stories in the last 90 days
- Salesforce#1 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
Salesforce is a US enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 1999. It sells customer relationship management (CRM) applications including…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- Sierra#15 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
Sierra is a US artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2023 by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. It builds conversational AI agents that…
- 24 stories in the last 90 days
- Writer#19 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
Writer is a US enterprise generative AI company founded in 2020 by May Habib and Waseem AlShikh and headquartered in San Francisco. Its full-stack platform combines its own…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- ServiceNow#2 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
ServiceNow is a US enterprise software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2004 by Fred Luddy. Its ServiceNow AI Platform automates workflows across IT…
Evidence is still building for ServiceNow.
- Automation Anywhere#10 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
Automation Anywhere is a US intelligent automation company founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells a cloud-native Automation Success Platform combining…
Evidence is still building for Automation Anywhere.
- CrewAI#17 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
CrewAI is an AI agent company known for its open-source Python framework for orchestrating teams of collaborating AI agents, called crews, that take on defined roles and tasks…
Evidence is still building for CrewAI.
- Glean#18 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
Glean is a US enterprise AI company that provides a work AI platform combining enterprise search, an AI assistant and AI agents grounded in a company's own data and permissions…
Evidence is still building for Glean.
- Kore.ai#20 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
Kore.ai is an enterprise conversational and agentic AI company that provides a platform for building, deploying and managing AI agents and virtual assistants. Its offerings…
Evidence is still building for Kore.ai.
- Pegasystems#12 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
Pegasystems, known as Pega, is an enterprise software company whose Pega Platform provides low-code workflow automation, case management, decisioning and generative AI for large…
Evidence is still building for Pegasystems.
- UiPath#9 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
UiPath is an automation software company founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă, and headquartered in New York City. Known for robotic process…
Evidence is still building for UiPath.
- Workday#13 leader in AI Agents & AutomationCompare with OpenAI
Workday is a US enterprise cloud applications company founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri and headquartered in Pleasanton, California. It sells software for human…
Evidence is still building for Workday.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with OpenAI. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with OpenAI's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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