Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.
The atlas currently follows 104 labs, but they disagree about only a handful of things. This site sorts them by those disagreements rather than by product. Six camps, each defined by its answer to four questions, with the people and labs in each, the money behind them, and the moves between them.
It is written for two readers. Researchers and students choosing a direction, who need to see the live scientific arguments and what would settle each one. And anyone who thinks AI means chatbots, who needs one page showing there are five other serious bets, some led by Turing laureates and all with billions behind them.
A camp is its answers to four questions. What does the model learn from? When does learning happen, once before deployment or continually after it? What is the internal representation? Where does it act? The fault lines page shows all six sets of answers side by side. Product categories, chatbots, robots, video, cut across the camps; the questions are what the camps argue about.
The validator requires a URL and publication date for every dated role, funding round, camp assignment, signature idea and recorded public argument. Money figures cite the announcing article; ideas cite the paper or essay. Narrative bios and camp explainers are editorial syntheses of those records and their general sources, not separately verified line by line. When credible sources disagree, the affected record stays, marked as contested, with both sides cited.
Sources go stale. A dead link is a bug; report it and it gets replaced or the claim comes out.
Public professional facts only: name, roles with organization, title and dates, public papers and statements, honors, and a portrait from Wikimedia Commons with its license. Nothing else. No contact details, no private information, no characterizations beyond what the person has said in public. Anyone listed who would rather not be can ask to be removed.
Round sizes and valuations are what the cited article reported. A valuation is marked pre-money, post-money, or reported, the last meaning the figure came from the press rather than the company. Rounds that were only reported as talks are shown but excluded from totals, as are listings and mergers. Investor names are as written in the announcement; the investors page merges spellings into one entity. None of this is advice.
Artificial Atlas is an independent project with no institutional affiliation, maintained in a personal capacity. Nobody pays for it, it carries no advertising, and it takes no money from the labs, investors or companies it lists. The data is open under CC BY-SA 4.0; a JSON export of everything on the site is the interface for reuse. Corrections and additions go through the corrections form, with a source; an entry changes only when one arrives.
Every page has a "Suggest a correction" link in the footer that opens an issue with the page already filled in. A pull request against the YAML is even better. The changes page lists every edit to the data with its date.
Cite as: Artificial Atlas, artificialatlas.org, with the date you retrieved it. The data is CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it for anything, credit the atlas, and share improvements under the same terms. Machine readers can start at llms.txt, the JSON export or the feed.