Who builds the models in this catalogue

US-headquartered technology leader behind Gemini and Gemma models, operating mixed open and proprietary AI under US CLOUD Act exposure.

19 models

Qwen

China-based (Alibaba) lab behind the Qwen model family; mostly Apache-2.0 but flagship models carry revenue-gated custom licences, not CLOUD Act exposed but subject to Chinese jurisdiction.

16 models

Mistral AI

France

France-headquartered lab building both open-weight and proprietary LLMs; EU-incorporated with no US parent, so CLOUD Act exposure is low.

15 models

Anthropic✓

United States

US-headquartered frontier AI lab (Claude); CLOUD Act exposed but operates an EU entity in Ireland; mixed open-weights posture (closed models only).

14 models

xAI

US-based Grok developer with proprietary weights, now part of SpaceX; CLOUD Act exposed and under active EU GDPR and DSA scrutiny.

8 models

DeepSeek✓

China-based lab releasing MIT-licensed open-weights LLMs; hosted API stores data in the PRC. Not a CLOUD Act entity, but EU regulators have acted against it.

5 models

Z.ai

Chinese AI lab behind the GLM foundation models, operating internationally via Singapore with mixed open and proprietary licences.

5 models

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Beijing-based non-profit AI lab publishing mostly open-weights models (BGE embeddings, MIT/Apache); not CLOUD Act exposed, but on the US Entity List since 2025.

3 models

Cloudflare

US network and security company that publishes Apache-2.0 open-weights Clef models. Subject to the CLOUD Act.

3 models

Moonshot AI

Chinese AI lab behind the Kimi model family; releases frontier open-weight models under custom licences and operates outside US jurisdiction.

3 models

MiniMax

Shanghai-based AI lab, mixed open-weight licensing; not CLOUD Act exposed but accused of mass fraudulent-account distillation of rival AI models.

2 models

TypeSafe AI

US-based lab selling a proprietary, closed-weights decision model via API; CLOUD Act exposed; EU data transfers under SCCs.

2 models

Xiaomi MiMo

Beijing-based Xiaomi's MiMo research team ships MIT-licensed open-weights LLMs; Chinese jurisdiction, no CLOUD Act exposure.

2 models

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Spain

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KBLab

Sweden

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Klang AI AB

Sweden

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Meta AI✓

US-based creator of open-weights Llama models; CLOUD Act exposed. Frontier development includes both open and closed lines with ongoing EU friction.

Microsoft✓

US-based big tech with open-weight Phi models and proprietary MAI models; CLOUD Act exposed, but an EU Data Boundary and GPAI Code signatory.

NB AI-Lab (National Library of Norway)

Norway

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NousResearch

US-headquartered open-weights research lab behind the Hermes model family and Hermes Agent; CLOUD Act exposed.

NVIDIA✓

US-headquartered chip vendor that releases open-weights Nemotron models with training data; CLOUD Act exposed, with a pending copyright suit over training data.

Swiss AI Initiative

Switzerland

Swiss academic consortium (ETH Zurich, EPFL, CSCS) behind the fully open Apertus LLMs; no US parent, so no CLOUD Act exposure at creator level.