Double Diamond
Customer-obsessed science.
Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life of people around the world.
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About Citadel and Citadel Securities Citadel is a multi-strategy alternative investment manager. For more than three decades, we’ve captured undiscovered market opportunities by empowering extraordinary people to pursue their best and boldest ideas. Each day at Citadel, we reimagine and refine our strategies, models and technology in pursuit of superior long-term performance. Citadel Securities is the next-generation capital markets firm. We create efficient ways for buyers and sellers to come together; we innovative ways to price and absorb risk; and we develop new technologies to transform markets. Integrating deep financial, mathematical and engineering expertise, Citadel Securities delivers critical liquidity to central banks, financial institutions, government agencies, corporations, insurers and sovereign wealth funds.
Encord is a multimodal data platform for AI. With Encord, AI teams can easily manage, curate, and label petabytes of images, videos, audio, documents, text, and DICOM files on one unified platform while benefiting from AI-assisted speed and accuracy with human-in-the-loop workflows.
Eqvilent is an international quantitative trading powerhouse operating at the forefront of high-frequency trading across global financial markets and asset classes. We design, develop, and run proprietary trading strategies powered by advanced quantitative research and deep learning models trained on large-scale market datasets. Our research and trading systems run on high-performance computing infrastructure and a dedicated in-house data center. Every day, our systems process massive real-time market data streams and execute more than 10 million trades, providing liquidity across dozens of major financial markets worldwide.
Google is home to world-class research teams, whose foundational breakthroughs have helped usher in a new era of AI.
We are a leading quantitative research and technology firm. We combine world-class people with the power of machine learning, AI and advanced analytics to build smart strategies that succeed over time.
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm that trades on more than 200 venues in 45 countries. Our machine learning team works on the neural network models driving our trading strategies, and builds the infrastructure that make training and inference possible. We’re looking for smart and curious individuals from industry and academia to shape the future of ML at Jane Street.
Jump Trading is a leading global trading firm that combines sophisticated quantitative research, cutting-edge technology, and an entrepreneurial culture. We leverage our proprietary technology to analyze massive data sets and identify trends in global markets.
At Microsoft Research, we accelerate scientific discovery and technology innovation to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.
Prolific provides the end-to-end evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI. 200,000+ verified and active evaluators. 45 countries. 30,000+ published studies. Trusted across AI and Academia.
Scale delivers proven data, evaluations, and outcomes to AI labs, governments, and the Fortune 500.
Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy strategies in our systematic trading environment. We apply machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies.
The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm founded in 1988 with more than 3,000 people around the world. Members of our technical staff collaborate on challenging problems that directly impact the firm’s continued success, utilizing their analytical, mathematical, and software design skills as well as some of the most advanced computing resources in the world.
Turing is a leading AI infrastructure company for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for enterprises, helping teams train superintelligence by building proprietary intelligence systems with the data, talent, and infrastructure they need.
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42 — Where Questioning Becomes an Art . We are an independent AI research lab building universal foundation models for prediction and decision-making in complex, fast-changing systems. We use financial markets as an extreme scientific testbed — open data, continuous feedback, adversarial dynamics. At 42, researchers define the questions; reality decides which ones matter.
Ant Group traces its roots back to Alipay, which was established in 2004 to create trust between online sellers and buyers. Over the years, Ant Group has grown to become one of the world's leading open Internet platforms.
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something. Every new product, service, or feature we create is the result of people making each other’s ideas stronger.
In support of its mission to Inspire Creativity and Enrich Life, ByteDance has made it easy and fun for people to connect with, create and consume content. People are also able to discover and transact with a suite of more than a dozen products and services such as TikTok, CapCut, TikTok Shop, Lark, Pico and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, as well as products and services specific to the China market.
Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z and the premier expert network for leading AI labs. With a community of over 18 million verified students and alumni from 1,500+ colleges, including 3M graduate-level domain experts, of which 500K are PhDs. Today, Handshake connects AI labs with this thriving network of verified subject-matter experts to provide the highest quality AI training data.
Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have approximately 208,000 employees and we operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world. We are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.
Kunumi Institute is a research collective dedicated to expanding the boundaries of intelligence, culture, and meaning from the Global South to the world. Organized as a constellation of autonomous and interdependent initiatives, we draw on scientific research methods to explore the intersections between these fields, fostering co-evolution. Rather than treating knowledge as mere accumulation or as a territory to be controlled, we engage in scientific inquiry as a means of awakening new perspectives capable of transforming the very nature of knowing itself.
We’re advancing AI for a more connected world.
Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, serving 131 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
Salesforce is the world’s leading customer relationship management technology, helping you build and improve your customer relationships. Our Starter Suite makes it easy for small businesses to get organized and grow with the #1 AI CRM. And we’re helping organizations of all sizes unify their data and re-imagine their business for the world of AI with Agentforce, providing autonomous AI agents that take action for your employees and customers.
Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform to start, run, and grow a business. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to 10,000 employees and generated over $496 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.
Vetto connects frontier AI labs to the top 1% of Latin American scientists and domain experts — delivering expert-labeled data at the precision and scale they demand. Led by ex DeepMind and Meta, its in-house research team builds proprietary training environments to ensure reproducibility and speed.
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Appen is a global AI data and services company supporting the research, development, and evaluation of advanced AI systems. We work with leading research teams and enterprises to provide high-quality data and human expertise across the AI lifecycle, including training, evaluation, safety, and real-world performance.
Baseten is an inference infrastructure platform that helps engineering and ML teams deploy and run AI models in production with high performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. It provides managed GPU infrastructure, autoscaling, and developer tooling so teams can serve open-source, custom, and fine-tuned models across clouds with minimal ops overhead.[1][2]
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Datadog is the observability and security platform for cloud applications. Our AI research lab is tackling ambitious research problems, including: Observability Foundation Models for multi-modal telemetry analysis (logs, metrics, traces, etc.); Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agents to resolve product incidents; and Production Code Repair Agents to identify and repair performance issues.
Founded in 2017, JoinQuant operates as a leading quantitative private fund manager . Leveraging financial big data, we deeply integrate quantitative research with artificial intelligence to continuously pioneer AI-driven autonomous investment research. Guided by the philosophy of "Empowering Investment with Technology" and a corporate culture of "Integrity, Excellence, and Responsibility," our mission remains centered on enhancing investment capabilities through frontier technology. A premier professional team has been assembled, blending global academic vision with superior engineering capabilities and extensive industry expertise. Many team members are research elites with publications in top-tier international AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, alongside gold medalists from prestigious competitions including NOI, CMO, and ACM-ICPC. With assets under management currently reaching approximately 18 billion RMB, our track record demonstrates consistent and exceptional strategic innovation. This excellence has been recognized through numerous heavyweight industry accolades, including the China Securities Golden Bull Award, the Golden Yangtze Award, and the Yinghua Award
Liquid is building AI for the real world. We are an MIT spin-off and foundation model company with offices in Boston, San Francisco, and Tokyo.
Deploy generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and more on Modal's platform. We help DS and MLE teams accelerate development, reduce costs, and effortlessly scale workloads across thousands of CPUs and GPUs. Our pay-per-use model ensures you're billed only for actual compute time, down to the CPU cycle - just efficient, scalable computing power when you need it.
Nebius is a leading AI Cloud built to service the explosive growth of the global AI industry. The company has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, North America and Israel. The core offering is an AI-centric cloud platform, fully developed in-house — including software, servers, racks, and data center design. The platform provides ML engineers and AI developers with the compute, storage, MLOps services, and tools needed to build, tune, and deploy AI models efficiently and at scale.
Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global investment manager where we deploy a diverse range of investment strategies across geographies, asset classes and time frames. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.
Runpod is a platform providing globally distributed GPUs and CPUs for AI workloads. It lets you easily run inference, train models, and handle intensive tasks. With a user-friendly interface and powerful tools, you can manage resources, monitor performance, and streamline projects—offering speed, flexibility, and reliability for your AI applications.
From agentic skills to coding and AI safety — we build data solutions integrating human expertise and technology to accelerate AI development.
Founded in 2014, WizardQuant is a quantitative hedge fund with a presence in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Chengdu, Hong Kong, and New York. With a vision to be the foremost investment team globally, the firm has continually evolved since its inception. Harnessing advanced research methodologies, cutting-edge trading technologies, and an integrated trading system, WizardQuant consistently achieves sustainable profitability across diverse financial markets, including futures, stocks, options, and other instruments. Our commitment to excellence has fueled a culture of innovation, creating a dynamic environment for our dedicated professionals. At WizardQuant, we are always eager to welcome like-minded individuals who share our passion for pushing the boundaries of quantitative finance and contributing to our ongoing success. More information can be found on www.wizardquant.com.
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AfterQuery is a research lab investigating the boundaries of AI capabilities. We are a trusted partner to every frontier lab. We create open-source benchmarks and evaluation suites to identify the limitations of existing models, and curate industry-leading human datasets to enhance AI's professional expertise.
Booster Robotics was founded in 2023. We hope to promote productivity change by creating humanoid robot products and uniting global developers. Our early strategy is oriented towards scientific research and education scenarios. Based on the team's all-round experience in robots, software, chips and commercialization, we will create software and hardware platforms such as humanoid robots, operating systems, and development tools to accelerate the implementation of embodied intelligence.
InvestSet is a wealthtech that connects investors to a global database of investment funds, stocks, ETFs, and bonds. Our wide range of information includes descriptive data, documents, quantitative data, and all sorts of analytics. We offer advanced portfolio management tools like optimization, backtests, tracking and performance reporting. These tools are backed by a user-friendly cloud-based SaaS platform accessible on mobile, desktop, APIs, Excel links and white label solutions.
Lila Sciences is an AI-driven, Cambridge, MA-based company pioneering a
MATS is an independent research and educational seminar program that connects talented researchers with top mentors in the fields of AI alignment, transparency, and security. We believe ambitious people from varied backgrounds can meaningfully contribute to alignment research—and we set fellows up with the mentorship, funding, and community to make that happen.
The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) at MBZUAI is dedicated to pioneering academic research at the forefront of global AI innovation, driven by real-world societal needs. IFM builds some of the world’s most powerful foundation models - open, fast, and focused on solving real-world problems. With deep scientific roots and world-class talent in Abu Dhabi, Paris, and Silicon Valley, IFM is shaping the future of AI.
Normal is rethinking semiconductors from the ground up. Normal deploys AI software to accelerate complex hardware engineering with zero defects – all in one unified EDA platform.With the help of Normal EDA, and our closest semiconductor partners, we are building thermodynamic computing hardware that could reduce AI energy consumption by 1000x.
Rise Data Labs is a human intelligence infrastructure platform powered by 500K elite experts to provide AI training and data services including RLHF, evals, RL environments for frontier AI labs and enterprises.
Unitree Robotics is a global leader in civilian robotics, specializing in high-performance legged/humanoid robots and robotic arms. Recognized at major events like 2022 Winter Olympics & the 2023 Super Bowl Pre-Show, its quadruped robots dominate 60-70% of global shipments. Founded in 2016, Unitree holds 180+ patents and serves over 50% countries worldwide.
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Founded in 2000, Baidu's mission is to make the complicated world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation. We are one of the few companies worldwide operating on a full-stack layout in AI.
JetBrains is a global software company dedicated to creating intelligent tools for developers. Our mission is to make software development more productive and enjoyable by automating routine tasks, enabling developers to focus on code design, efficiently explore codebases, and maintain quality at all stages of development.
As a tech-driven retail company, Meituan strategically focuses on “Retail + Technology” and adheres to our mission of “We help people eat better, live better”. Established in March 2010, Meituan has been at the forefront of digital upgrading of services and goods retail, driving innovation on both the supply and demand sides.
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Cubist Systematic Strategies is the systematic investing business of Point72. We deploy systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes.
Founded in 2025, the School of Artificial Intelligence (SAI) advances frontier AI research and education. Supported by the Greater Bay Area’s innovation ecosystem, SAI develops core AI technologies and interdisciplinary applications while cultivating global talent.
Two Sigma is a leading quantitative investment management and trading firm with more than $70 billion in assets under management. The company applies a scientific approach to investing, combining cutting-edge technology, artificial intelligence, data science, and quantitative research with rigorous human inquiry to capitalize on market opportunities and deliver alpha for investors. Founded in 2001, Two Sigma employs over 1,700 curious minds at its headquarters in New York and in offices around the globe.
Zillow is renowned for our innovation, striving to redefine the moving experience with
Publishers of Scientific Research Journals and Books
CoCalc enables reproducibility and practical usage of exercises in textbooks like An Introduction to Python Programming for Scientists and Engineers and simulations in journals such as "the Journal of Fluid Mechanics", published by Cambridge University Press.
Open access journal Intelligent Computing, published in affiliation with Zhejiang Lab, publishes the latest research outcomes and technological breakthroughs in intelligent computing.
Springer is a leading global scientific and technical publisher of many prestigious journals, including a number of fully open access journals. Our book and eBook portfolio comprises conference proceedings, book series, textbooks and major reference works from distinguished authors.
Translated is a global language services company combining human expertise and AI to deliver translation and localization solutions worldwide. Through its research center Imminent, it funds language-focused research and publishes an annual annual report on the future of language and AI.
Advocate Level - Participation Support Fund
Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, built by the researchers behind FlashAttention, Megakernel, and ThunderKittens. Our team publishes at ICLR, MLSys, NeurIPS, ICML, and beyond — and those advances ship directly to production, giving developers access to frontier techniques before they're widely available anywhere else. The result: industry-leading inference speed, a full suite of tooling across model training, fine-tuning, and inference, and a platform that gets faster as the field advances. Trusted by leading AI-native builders like ElevenLabs, Cursor, Decagon, Hedra, and Cartesia, Together AI is the infrastructure platform for the most demanding AI applications in the world.
Leader Level - Participation Support Fund
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something. Every new product, service, or feature we create is the result of people making each other’s ideas stronger.
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