Who is attending the UK's AI Safety Summit?

On 1st and 2nd November 2023, governments, AI companies and experts from around the work met for crucial talks on the safe and responsible development of AI. AI has the potential to revolutionise the way we live, but we must also minimise its risks.

We were lucky enough to attend a couple of the run up events, including the AI for Innovation Dinner last night in Guildhall. Here's the full list of major attendees:

Contents of this list:

• Companies attending (e.g Nvidia + Anthropic)
• Governments attending (and universities within those countries) e.g. the USA + USC Berkeley
• Multilateral organisations (spanning multiple countries e.g. United Nations)

Companies attending

Here is the full list with companies organised by valuation/size and links included:

Six of the Magnificent Seven ($7trn in combined value)

• Microsoft
• Amazon Web Services
• Alphabet (Google) + Google DeepMind‍
• Nvidia‍
• Meta
• Tesla + XAI (Elon Musk is attending)
  

Note: Apple is the only one missing

Other Public Companies

• Tencent ($362bn)
• Alibaba ($215bn)
• Samsung Electronics ($330bn)
• Salesforce ($200bn)
• IBM ($130bn)
• Sony ($100bn)
• Palantir ($30bn)
• Darktrace ($3.4bn)

Private Companies with $1B+ Valuations (a.k.a. Decacorns & Unicorns)

• OpenAI ($90bn)
• Databricks ($43bn)
• Naver ($20bn)
• Anthropic ($20bn)
• Scale AI ($7bn)
• Hugging Face ($4.5bn)
• Inflection AI ($4bn)
• Graphcore ($3.8bn)
• Cohere ($2bn)
• Stability AI ($1.6bn)
• Imbue ($1bn)

Other Private Companies with sub $1bn valuations.

• Conjecture
• Faculty AI
• Mistral
• Genie AI

Notable Research Labs/Open Source attendees.

• Aleph Alpha
• Eleuther AI

Multilateral Organisations

• Council of Europe
• European Commission
• Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• UNESCO
• United Nations

Country Governments

Australia

• University of New South Wales

Brazil

Canada

• Université de Montréal
• Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

China

• Chinese Academy of Sciences

France

Germany

India

Indonesia

Ireland

• University College Cork

Israel

Italy

Japan

Kenya

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nigeria

Republic of Korea

Republic of the Philippines

Rwanda

Singapore

Spain

Switzerland

Türkiye

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom (Host nation)

• Alan Turing Institute
• Blavatnik School of Government
• Oxford Internet Institute
• University of Oxford

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United States of America

• Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
• Stanford University
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Southern California
• University of Virginia

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