15 Largest AI Companies in the World 15 largest AI companies in the world. Click to skip ahead and jump to the 10 largest AI companies in the world. Before we start discussing this topic in greater detail, first let’s establish the exact meaning of AI, to ensure we’re all on the same page. AI refers to of course, artificial intelligence. We know that human beings are the most intelligent animals by far in the world, having grown our capabilities through evolution. This is what we call natural intelligence. Now, we have got to the point where we want to create machines which can mimic our intelligence, or in many occasions, even surpass it. This is what we call artificial intelligence, which is basically the creation of intelligent machines, or machine which can capture, emulate and even exceed human cognition.