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Applied Intuition is a Mountain View-headquartered developer of simulation software, Vehicle OS, and self-driving toolchains for AI-driven autonomous vehicles. The company accelerates deployment across automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture sectors. Major global automakers and Department of Defense programs rely on its platforms to validate sensor suites, perception stacks, and planning algorithms. Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition maintains offices in Washington, D.C., San Diego, Ann Arbor, London, Stuttgart, Munich, Stockholm, Bangalore, Seoul, and Tokyo to support international engineering teams.

Didi Woya is a Beijing-headquartered autonomous driving unit of Didi Chuxing focused on robotaxi development. The division deploys self-driving vehicles equipped with 360-degree sensors, machine learning, and IoT for ridesharing tests in China. Didi Woya advances commercialization of Level 4 autonomy for efficient urban transport.

Momenta is a Beijing-headquartered autonomous driving software company developing deep learning solutions for perception, high-definition semantic mapping, and path planning. The firm provides multi-level autonomy stacks and big data services, drawing on expertise from Faster R-CNN, ResNet developers, and ImageNet challenge winners.

Cidi Inc is a provider of intelligent driving products and solutions for commercial vehicles in China. The company focuses on the research and development of closed-environment autonomous driving trucks for mining and logistics, V2X (vehicle-to-everything) technologies and intelligent perception solutions, and offers products and solutions underpinned by proprietary technologies, with a primary focus on intelligent driving in closed environments. Its products and solutions include (i) autonomous driving technologies, (ii) V2X products and solutions, and (iii) intelligent perception solutions. The majority of revenue is derived from the Autonomous driving, including closed-environment autonomous mining trucks and closed-environment autonomous logistics truck solutions.

Kodiak AI Inc is a provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous vehicle technology. This technology addresses the needs of the long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense industries. The company's core offering, the Kodiak Driver, is a single-platform virtual driver that combines advanced AI software with modular hardware for customer deployments. All company operations are conducted in the United States.

Tesla is a vertically integrated battery electric vehicle automaker and developer of real world artificial intelligence software, which includes autonomous driving and humanoid robots. The company has multiple vehicles in its fleet, which include luxury and midsize sedans, crossover SUVs, a light truck, and a semi truck. Tesla also plans to begin selling a sports car and offer a robotaxi service. Global deliveries in 2025 were nearly 1.64 million vehicles. The company sells batteries for stationary storage for residential and commercial properties including utilities and solar panels and solar roofs for energy generation. Tesla also owns a fast-charging network and an auto insurance business.

General Motors Co. emerged from the bankruptcy of General Motors Corp. (old GM) in July 2009. GM has eight brands and operates under three segments: GM North America, GM International, and GM Financial. The United States now has four brands instead of eight under old GM. The company regained its US market share leadership in 2022, after losing it to Toyota due to the chip shortage in 2021. 2025 US share was 17.4%, up 60 basis points from 2024. The Cruise autonomous vehicle arm, which GM now owns outright, previously operated driverless geofenced AV robotaxi services in San Francisco and other cities, but after a 2023 accident, GM decided that it will focus on personal AVs. GM Financial became the company's captive finance arm in 2010 via the purchase of AmeriCredit.

SAIC Motor Corp Ltd builds and sells passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The company operates its business through two segments: the Vehicle and Parts Segment and the Financial Services Segment. The Vehicle and Parts segment focuses on the manufacturing and sale of automobiles and components. The Financial Services segment is engaged in offering various financial solutions. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Vehicle and Parts Segment.

IonQ Inc sells access to several quantum computers of various qubit capacities and is in the process of researching and developing technologies for quantum computers with increasing computational capabilities. The company currently makes access to its quantum computers available via cloud platforms and also to select customers via its own cloud service. This cloud-based approach enables the broad availability of quantum-computing-as-a-service (QCaaS). The company derives its revenue from its quantum-computing-as-a-service arrangements, consulting services related to co-developing algorithms on company's quantum computing systems and contracts associated with the design, development, and construction of specialized quantum computing systems together with related services.

Skild AI is a San Francisco-headquartered startup building foundation models for robotics that enable spatial intelligence and adaptive manipulation in unstructured environments. The company trains multimodal AI on real-world data from humanoid robots to handle tasks like grasping and navigation without task-specific programming. Skild AI raised funding from investors including Benchmark and focuses on warehouse automation and manufacturing applications.

Aurora Innovation Inc delivers self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles. It underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. The Company is developing the Aurora Driver, a scalable suite of self-driving hardware, software, and data services designed as a platform to adapt and interoperate among vehicle types and applications.

SambaNova is a Palo Alto-headquartered enterprise AI company providing full-stack solutions from Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit silicon like the 2023 SN40L chip to software platforms including Samba Cloud for instant inference on models such as Llama and Qwen, SambaStack for on-premise deployments, and SambaManaged for efficient data center AI services deployable in 90 days.

Founded in 2015, XPeng is a leading Chinese smart electric vehicle company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets EVs in China. Its products primarily target the growing base of technology-savvy middle-class consumers in the midrange to high-end segment in China’s passenger vehicle market. The company sold over 190,000 EVs in 2024, accounting for about 2% of China’s passenger new energy vehicle market. It is also a leader in autonomous driving technology.

Argo AI was a Pittsburgh-headquartered developer of autonomous vehicle technology, operating engineering centers in Detroit, Cranbury, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and Munich. Launched in 2016 by Ford and Volkswagen, it built the Argo Autonomy Platform for self-driving ridesharing and delivery until operations ceased in 2022 with technology transferred to Ford.

Mobileye Global Inc engages in the development and deployment of ADAS and autonomous driving technologies and solutions. It is building a portfolio of end-to-end ADAS and autonomous driving solutions to provide the capabilities needed for the future of autonomous driving, leveraging a comprehensive suite of purpose-built software and hardware technologies. The company's reportable operating segment are Mobileye and Moovit. Its solutions comprise Driver Assist, Cloud-Enhanced Driver Assist, Mobileye SuperVision Lite, Mobileye SuperVision, Mobileye Chauffeur, Mobileye Drive, Self-Driving System & Vehicles. It derives maximum revenue from Mobileye Segment.

Automation Anywhere is a leader in robotic process automation with its cloud-native platform combining RPA, AI, process discovery, and analytics. Founded in 2003 and San Jose-headquartered, it automates tasks across finance, HR, and IT for enterprises worldwide. The IQ Bot handles document processing, while Bot Store offers pre-built automations. Automation Anywhere serves sectors in over 180 countries with integrations to SAP and ServiceNow.

Presight AI Holding PLC provides digital transformation services through big data analytics powered by artificial intelligence. It combines analytics, big data and AI expertise to serve every sector of every scale, to create business and societal value. The group’s world-class omni-analytics platform, TAQ, leverages big data and analytics to deliver cutting-edge Al technology, enabling forecasting and the anticipation of outcomes to support insight-driven, decision making that shapes policy and delivers societal impact.

Momenta Global Ltd is principally engaged in the development and provision of autonomous driving (AD) solutions in the People's Republic of China (the PRC) and provides services to corporate customers. It offers two solutions: the deployment of its solutions in mass-produced vehicles (Solutions forMass-produced Vehicles) and the development of a scalable, driverless AD mobility and logistics business (Solutions for Robotaxi Services). The company's majority of revenue is derived from the provision of technical development services to OEMs in the PRC.