The reference desk for artificial intelligence.

AIDB started from a simple question: where does a serious person go to understand the AI industry without wading through marketing copy, outdated directories, or vibes-driven Twitter threads? Nowhere good enough. So we built it. Every entity has a structured profile, every number is labelled reported or estimated, and every claim ladders back to a primary or major secondary source.

• Company profiles
  Valuation, Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), headcount, funding history, products, models, leadership, and a bibliography of sources — for every name that matters in AI.
• People & filmographies
  Each founder, researcher, and operator has a profile listing every company they've shipped at — the way IMDb lists every film an actor has appeared in.
• Category leaderboards
  Foundation models, image generation, robotics, defense, healthcare — 21 categories, sortable by valuation, ARR, headcount, or how recently the data was refreshed.
• Side-by-side compare
  Pick 2–4 companies and read them as a spec sheet: HQ, valuation, ARR, funding total, headcount, profitability, pricing tier.
• Daily newsroom
  Five neutral, cited briefs every day at 13:00 UTC, written by an editorial agent that verifies each story against primary sources before publishing.
• 100 best AI tools — downloads catalog
  A weekly-refreshed catalog of the most useful AI-adjacent software (Wispr Flow, Cursor, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Warp…) with platform availability, pricing, and an editorial rating.
• Footer assistant
  A streaming chatbot powered by Claude Haiku 4.5, grounded in the AIDB index, that knows the entire database and can suggest where to go next.

AIDB is the only place you can ask “where did Anthropic's engineers come from?” and get a cited answer.

Because we index people × roles × company × dates, the alumni network falls out for free. Explore the Talent Flow graph →

• · Not a directory of links.
• · Not a launchpad for marketing pitches.
• · Not investment, legal, or business advice.
• · Not a leaderboard of who paid for placement.
• · Not human-curated busywork — automated, but rigorously.

• Research agent
  Claude Sonnet 4.6 + the web_search tool. Strict JSON-out, type-based content-block parsing, versioned prompts, and a citations table per run. Bulk classification and the tools-catalog editor run on Claude Haiku 4.5 to keep costs sane.
• Editorial automation
  A daily cron picks five stories, verifies them, writes 400–600 word briefs, and publishes — with sources attached. A weekly cron refreshes the downloads catalog.
• Infrastructure
  Next.js (App Router, server components), Tailwind CSS, Neon Postgres with Drizzle ORM, deployed on Vercel. Light and dark themes. Built for read speed: minimal client JavaScript, tabular numerals for every stat.
• Editorial control
  A single admin account (locked to one email) can trigger refreshes manually, review the research queue, approve before publish, override anything, and watch every change land in an admin-only changelog.

AIDB.Digital is built and operated by Digital Universe, an AI-first studio that builds and ships practical AI systems, education, and products. We made AIDB because we needed it ourselves — a serious reference for an industry that moves too fast for static directories.