vendors-western-recommended

Western AI vendors — the recommended list

Status: 🟩 COMPLETE 🟦 LIVING Last updated: 2026-06-25 Plain-English tagline: The full list of Western AI providers and products the encyclopedia covers, grouped by capability. Country flag on every row.

This is the spine of the AI landscape. Every row links to the entry that covers it in depth. Entries marked 🟥 STUB will be filled in as the build progresses — see the project session continuity memory for the current status of the build-out.

For the avoid list, see vendors-chinese-avoid.md. For “which one for what job,” see which-ai-for-which-job.md.

Country flags: 🇺🇸 USA · 🇬🇧 UK · 🇫🇷 France · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇪🇺 EU · 🇨🇦 Canada · 🇦🇺 Australia · 🇳🇿 New Zealand · 🇮🇱 Israel

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Frontier AI assistants (chat / general-purpose)

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude.ai consumer	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude models	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude API overview	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	OpenAI	ChatGPT	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	OpenAI	GPT models lineup	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	OpenAI	OpenAI API	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	Gemini consumer app	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	Gemini models lineup	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	Google AI Studio	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	Vertex AI	15	🟥
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Microsoft Copilot consumer	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	xAI	Grok	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Meta	Meta AI	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Meta	Llama models lineup	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Perplexity	Perplexity AI	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	DuckDuckGo	DuckDuckGo AI Chat	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	You.com	You.com	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Brave	Brave Leo	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Kagi	Kagi Assistant	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Inflection	Inflection Pi	10	🟩 🟦
🇫🇷	Mistral	Mistral Le Chat	10	🟩 🟦
🇫🇷	Mistral	Mistral models	10	🟥
🇨🇦	Cohere	Cohere Command	10	🟩 🟦

AI-assisted coding tools (CLIs, IDEs, agents)

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Code	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Code memory system	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Code slash commands	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Code hooks	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Code plugins	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Code settings.json	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Code subagents	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Skills	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Cowork	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Remote Desktop	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Remote Dispatch	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Anthropic Computer Use	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude in Chrome	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Anysphere	Cursor	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Codeium	Windsurf	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	OpenAI	OpenAI Codex (2026 agent)	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	Google Antigravity	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	Gemini Code Assist	11	🟥
🇺🇸	GitHub	GitHub Copilot	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	GitHub	GitHub Spark	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Replit	Replit Agent	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Sourcegraph	Cody	11	🟩 🟦
🇮🇱	Tabnine	Tabnine	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Cline	Cline	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Roo	Roo Code	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Cognition Labs	Devin	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	StackBlitz	Bolt.new	11	🟩 🟦
🇸🇪	Lovable	Lovable	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Vercel	v0 by Vercel	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Continue.dev	Continue.dev	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Aider	Aider	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Zed	Zed AI	11	🟩 🟦
🇨🇿	JetBrains	JetBrains AI Assistant	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Amazon	Amazon Q Developer	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Warp	Warp terminal AI	11	🟩 🟦
🇫🇷	Mistral	Mistral Codestral	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Copilot Workspace	11	🟩 🟦

Image generation

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	OpenAI	“Image 2.0”)	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	OpenAI	DALL-E (legacy)	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Google	4)	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Midjourney	Midjourney	10	🟩 🟦
🇬🇧	Stability AI	Stable Diffusion	10	🟩 🟦
🇩🇪	Black Forest Labs	Flux	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Adobe	Adobe Firefly Image	14	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Ideogram	Ideogram	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Recraft	Recraft	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Reve	Reve Image	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Higgsfield	Higgsfield	10	🟥

Video generation

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	OpenAI	Sora 2	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	3)	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Runway	4	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Luma	Luma Dream Machine	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Pika	Pika	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Higgsfield	Higgsfield video	10	🟥

Music generation

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Suno	Suno	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Udio	Udio	10	🟥
🇬🇧	Stability	Stable Audio	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Google	Lyria	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Meta	MusicGen	10	🟥
🇺🇸	ElevenLabs	ElevenLabs Music	10	🟥
🇱🇺	AIVA	AIVA	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Mubert	Mubert	10	🟥

Voice generation / TTS / cloning

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	ElevenLabs	ElevenLabs	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	OpenAI	OpenAI Voice Engine	10	🟥
🇺🇸	OpenAI	OpenAI TTS API	10	🟥
🇺🇸	PlayAI	Play.ht	10	🟥
🇺🇸	WellSaid Labs	WellSaid	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Murf	Murf	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Resemble	Resemble AI	10	🟥

Speech-to-text / transcription

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	OpenAI	Whisper	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	AssemblyAI	AssemblyAI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Deepgram	Deepgram	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Otter	Otter.ai	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Rev	Rev.com	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Azure Speech	15	🟥
🇺🇸	Google	Google Cloud Speech-to-Text	15	🟥
🇨🇦	Granola	Granola	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Fireflies	Fireflies.ai	10	🟥

Translation

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇩🇪	DeepL	DeepL	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Google	Google Translate	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Microsoft Translator	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Amazon	Amazon Translate	15	🟥
🇺🇸	Apple	Apple Translate	10	🟥

Design + design AI

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇦🇺	Canva	Canva + Magic Studio	14	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Adobe	Adobe Creative Cloud + Firefly + Sensei	14	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Adobe	Adobe Photoshop AI	14	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Adobe	Adobe Premiere AI	14	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Adobe	Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant	14	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Adobe	Adobe Express AI	14	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Figma	Figma + Figma AI + Figma Make	14	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Figma	FigJam AI	14	🟥
🇳🇱	Framer	Framer + Framer AI	14	🟥
🇳🇱	Sketch	Sketch	14	🟥
🇦🇺	Affinity (Canva-owned)	Affinity	14	🟥
🇪🇸	Penpot	Penpot	14	🟥
🇨🇿	Pixelmator	Pixelmator Pro	14	🟥
🇩🇪	Inkscape	Inkscape (open source)	14	🟥
🇺🇸	GIMP	GIMP (open source)	14	🟥
🇪🇪	Krita	Krita (open source)	14	🟥
🇳🇱	Blender	Blender (open source 3D)	14	🟥
🇨🇦	Gamma	Gamma (AI slides)	14	🟥
🇺🇸	Tome	Tome (AI slides)	14	🟥
🇺🇸	Beautiful.ai	Beautiful.ai	14	🟥
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Microsoft Designer	14	🟩 🟦

Video creation / editing (AI features)

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Descript	Descript	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Captions	Captions	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Opus	Opus Clip	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Submagic	Submagic	10	🟥
🇺🇸	HeyGen	HeyGen	10	🟥
🇬🇧	Synthesia	Synthesia	10	🟥
🇮🇱	D-ID	D-ID	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Tavus	Tavus	10	🟥
🇦🇺	Blackmagic Design	DaVinci Resolve (AI features)	14	🟥

Cloud + cloud AI services

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Amazon	AWS overview	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Amazon	AWS Bedrock	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Amazon	AWS SageMaker	15	🟥
🇺🇸	Amazon	Amazon Q (Business)	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Amazon	Amazon Nova models	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Microsoft Azure overview	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Azure OpenAI Service	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Azure AI Foundry	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	Google Cloud overview	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	Vertex AI	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Oracle	Oracle Cloud + Oracle AI	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	IBM	IBM Cloud + watsonx	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	IBM	IBM Granite models	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Cloudflare	Cloudflare Workers AI	06	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Cloudflare	Cloudflare AI Gateway	06	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Vercel	Vercel AI SDK	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Vercel	Vercel AI Gateway	06	🟥

Model hosting / inference clouds

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Hugging Face	Hugging Face Hub	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Replicate	Replicate	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Together AI	Together AI	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Fireworks	Fireworks AI	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Groq	Groq (fast inference)	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Cerebras	Cerebras inference	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Modal	Modal	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Lambda Labs	Lambda Labs	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	RunPod	RunPod	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	CoreWeave	CoreWeave	15	🟥
🇺🇸	OpenRouter	OpenRouter (multi-model API)	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	LiteLLM	LiteLLM router library	11	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Portkey	Portkey AI Gateway	11	🟥
🇺🇸	Helicone	Helicone observability	11	🟩 🟦

Apple, Samsung, and on-device AI

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Apple	Apple Intelligence	10	🟩 🟦
🇰🇷	Samsung	Samsung Galaxy AI	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Copilot+ PCs	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Microsoft Recall	15	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Ollama	Ollama (run local AI)	09	🟥
🇺🇸	LM Studio	LM Studio	09	🟥
🇺🇸	Anthropic / llama.cpp	llama.cpp	09	🟥
🇺🇸	Apple	MLX (Apple Silicon ML)	09	🟥
🇮🇩	Jan	Jan (open-source local AI)	09	🟥

Embedded vendor AI (in products you already use)

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Microsoft 365 Copilot (Office)	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Windows	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Google	Meet	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Google	NotebookLM	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Notion	Notion AI	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Slack	Slack AI	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Salesforce	Salesforce Einstein	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	HubSpot	HubSpot AI	10	🟩 🟦
🇦🇺	Atlassian	Atlassian Rovo + Intelligence	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Zoom	Zoom AI Companion	10	🟩 🟦
🇺🇸	Asana	Asana AI	10	🟥
🇸🇪	Linear	Linear AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Airtable	Airtable AI	10	🟥
🇸🇪	Spotify	Spotify AI DJ	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Amazon	Alexa+	10	🟩 🟦

Browser AI

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	The Browser Company	Dia browser	09	🟥
🇺🇸	Perplexity	Comet browser	09	🟥
🇺🇸	Brave	Brave Leo	09	🟥
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Edge Copilot	09	🟥
🇺🇸	Google	Chrome Gemini + AI Mode	09	🟥
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude in Chrome	11	🟥

Frameworks & developer tooling

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	LangChain	LangGraph	11	🟥
🇺🇸	LlamaIndex	LlamaIndex	11	🟥
🇺🇸	CrewAI	CrewAI	11	🟥
🇺🇸	Microsoft	AutoGen	11	🟥
🇺🇸	Pydantic	Pydantic AI	11	🟥
🇺🇸	OpenAI	OpenAI Agents SDK	11	🟥
🇺🇸	Anthropic	Claude Agent SDK	11	🟥
🇺🇸	LangSmith	LangSmith observability	11	🟥
🇩🇪	Langfuse	Langfuse observability	11	🟥
🇺🇸	Braintrust	Braintrust evals	11	🟥
🇺🇸	Promptfoo	Promptfoo evals	11	🟥
🇬🇧	UK AISI	Inspect AI evals	11	🟥

Vector databases / RAG

Flag	Vendor	Product	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Pinecone	Pinecone	04	🟥
🇳🇱	Weaviate	Weaviate	04	🟥
🇺🇸	Chroma	Chroma	04	🟥
🇩🇪	Qdrant	Qdrant	04	🟥
🇺🇸	Zilliz	Milvus	04	🟥
🇺🇸	Postgres / Supabase	pgvector	04	🟥
🇺🇸	Turbopuffer	Turbopuffer	04	🟥

Vertical / specialised AI

Flag	Vendor	Product / category	Lives in	Status
🇺🇸	Grammarly	Writing assistant	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Jasper	Marketing writing	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Sudowrite	Fiction writing	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Lex	Long-form writing	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Harvey	Legal AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Spellbook	Legal contract review	10	🟥
🇺🇸	CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters)	Legal research	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Hippocratic AI	Health AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	OpenEvidence	Medical research AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	K Health	Symptom checker AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Khan Academy	Khanmigo	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Duolingo	Duolingo Max	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Photomath / Google	Photomath	10	🟥
🇦🇺	Frollo	AUS personal finance AI	10	🟥
🇬🇧	Cleo	Personal finance chatbot	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Decagon	Customer support AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Intercom	Fin AI agent	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Sierra	Customer support agent	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Gong	Sales AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Apollo	Sales / outreach AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Glean	Enterprise search AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Hebbia	Document research AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Inworld / Convai	Game NPC AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Luma Genie	3D AI	10	🟥
🇨🇳→🌐	Tripo / Meshy	3D AI (note: Tripo HQ in Singapore, Meshy in US — verify before listing)	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Be My Eyes	Vision accessibility AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Microsoft	Seeing AI	10	🟥
🇮🇱	OrCam	Vision hardware + AI	10	🟥
🇺🇸	Hallow	Catholic prayer + AI	10	🟥

Cross-cutting reference (lives in ai-landscape/)

Topic	File	Status
Capability matrix (every vendor × every capability)	capability-matrix.md	🟥
Pricing snapshot	pricing-snapshot.md	🟥 🟦
Free-tier comparison	free-tier-comparison.md	🟥 🟦
EU AI Act overview	eu-ai-act-overview.md	🟥
Australian privacy considerations	australian-privacy-considerations.md	🟥
AI hardware overview	ai-hardware-overview.md	🟥
Open weights vs closed	open-weights-vs-closed.md	🟥
What “agents” really mean	what-agents-really-mean.md	🟥
AI safety primer	ai-safety-primer.md	🟥
Australian AI scene	australian-ai-scene.md	🟥
How to access US AI from AUS	how-to-access-us-ai-from-australia.md	🟩 🟦
Privacy & data training	privacy-and-data-training.md	🟩 🟦
Which AI for which job	which-ai-for-which-job.md	🟩 🟦
Chinese-origin AI to avoid	vendors-chinese-avoid.md	🟩 🟦
AI landscape index	index.md	🟩 🟦

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How to read the status column

• 🟥 STUB — entry name + position in this index, but not yet written. Reading this row won’t tell you anything beyond what’s here.
• 🟨 DRAFT — written but rough.
• 🟩 COMPLETE — written, reviewed, cross-linked.
• 🟦 LIVING — the underlying topic evolves quickly; snapshot is current as of “Last reviewed.”

This index is itself 🟩 🟦. The status badges on the rows change as the build progresses. See ROADMAP.md for the overall build state.

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Country flag accuracy

The country flag in each row reflects the company headquarters at the time the entry was written. Some companies relocate; a few are technically incorporated in one country but operate primarily from another (Stability AI: UK-incorporated, US-operated; Lovable: founded in Sweden, scaling in US; Synthesia: UK + US split). Where this matters, the individual entry explains. The flag is a heuristic, not a legal claim.

For Aussie pride: Canva, Atlassian, Frollo, Affinity (Canva-owned), and Blackmagic Design / DaVinci Resolve are 🇦🇺-headquartered.

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See also

• index.md — the map overview
• vendors-chinese-avoid.md — the avoid list
• which-ai-for-which-job.md — task-to-tool decisions
• how-to-access-us-ai-from-australia.md — practical access guide
• privacy-and-data-training.md — data handling
• ROADMAP — overall encyclopedia build state
• 10. AI & LLMs 🟩
• 11. AI-assisted development 🟩 🟦
• 14. Design & UX 🟩
• 15. Broader tech bonus 🟩

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Sources

• Each linked entry carries its own sources. This index is a navigation document, not a primary-source claim.