An index of frontier and emerging AI labs.
Frontier lab
Stealth frontier AI lab pursuing automated alignment research and reasoning. Raised >$1B from Sequoia and a16z.
| Name | Flapping Airplanes |
|---|---|
| Space | Frontier lab |
| Founded | 2025 |
| Latest valuation | >$1B |
| Stage | — |
| Status | active |
| HQ | San Francisco |
| Founders | Ben Spector, Asher Spector, Aidan Smith |
| Website | https://flappingairplanes.com |
| Careers | — |
| — | |
| X / Twitter | — |
| Date | Round | Amount ($M) | Valuation | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | >$1B | reported | — |
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| Date | Type | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-14 | added | Flapping Airplanes added to tracker Latest valuation: >$1B. | — |
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| Lab | Valuation | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $965B | 2021 |
| OpenAI | $852B | 2015 |
| xAI | $250B | 2023 |
| SSI (Safe Superintelligence) | $32B | 2024 |
| Moonshot AI | $20B | 2023 |
| Thinking Machines Lab | $12B | 2025 |
| Ineffable Intelligence | $5.1B | 2025 |
| Ricursive Intelligence | $4B | 2025 |