Meta AI
Meta Platforms
Research and development expense
$57.372BFY ended 2025-12-31
Llama 4 Scout establishes the model-research link. The SEC metric remains company-wide.
View company profileThe business behind the AI race
Follow the capital behind the models.
Compare company-wide financial context for five public companies connected to model research in our Epoch AI source. Financial scale adds business context. It does not determine model quality or change a ranking.
Evidence boundary
Model authorship is established by the reviewed Epoch AI artifact. Corporate financial observations come from exact public-parent SEC 10-K filings. The two evidence classes are not blended into a score or causal claim.
Google DeepMind
Alphabet
Research and development expense
$61.087BFY ended 2025-12-31
Gemini 3.1 Pro establishes the model-research link. The SEC metric remains company-wide.
View company profileMicrosoft Research
Microsoft
Research and development expense
$32.488BFY ended 2025-06-30
CODEFUSION (Python) establishes the model-research link. The SEC metric remains company-wide.
View company profileAmazon AI
Amazon
Revenue from contracts with customers, excluding assessed tax
$716.9BFY ended 2025-12-31
Amazon Nova Pro establishes the model-research link. The SEC metric remains company-wide.
View company profileNVIDIA Research
NVIDIA
Research and development expense
$18.497BFY ended 2026-01-25
Nemotron 3 Ultra establishes the model-research link. The SEC metric remains company-wide.
View company profileWhat we leave out
Investment is not ownership.
OpenAI: Our sources do not establish a public-parent ownership relationship. Microsoft is treated as its own research organization, not as OpenAI's parent.
Anthropic: Our sources do not establish a public-parent ownership relationship. Amazon is treated as its own research organization, not as Anthropic's parent.
xAI, Mistral AI, and DeepSeek: Our sources do not contain exact SEC filing facts for these private organizations.