AI Jobs Created

While Baker McKenzie cut 1,000 support staff, the legal industry is simultaneously creating new AI-literate roles. Law firms favor smaller teams of AI-literate attorneys who can do more with less. The 2024 graduate employment rate hit 93.4%, the highest on record.

Mistral AI continued expanding to approximately 673 employees by late 2025, adding 173 positions from its 500-employee base, as it competed with OpenAI and Anthropic in the frontier model space.

AI inference chip company grew to ~644 employees. Revenue $172.5M in 2025. Nvidia acquisition deal announced.

Weights & Biases, the MLOps platform founded in 2017, grew to approximately 304 employees. The company was acquired by CoreWeave for $1.7 billion, reflecting the value of AI infrastructure tooling.

Hugging Face grew modestly to 665 employees by late 2025, adding approximately 30 positions. The company laid off 4% of staff in February 2025 but continued net growth.

Together AI grew from 287 to approximately 313 employees by late 2025, continuing to expand its open-source AI inference and training platform.

Cursor grew from ~60 to ~300 employees in 2025, adding ~240 roles as AI coding adoption surged.

Google DeepMind continued expanding to approximately 7,000 employees across 6 continents by October 2025, adding roughly 1,400 positions from the 5,600 headcount in 2024.

Humanoid robotics company grew from ~163 to ~422 employees. Valuation $39B. Building BotQ factory for 12,000 humanoids/year.

Aleph Alpha expanded from roughly 200 to over 300 employees by mid-2025, adding approximately 100 positions as the Heidelberg-based company grew its sovereign AI platform for European clients.

OpenAI continued its aggressive hiring, growing from 3,531 to approximately 5,300 full-time employees by July 2025, a 718% increase from the 770 employees in November 2023.

Cohere roughly doubled its workforce from 400 to approximately 814 employees by July 2025, adding 414 positions as enterprise demand for its AI models surged.

Legal AI company grew from ~340 to planned ~1,043 employees after $300M Series C at $5B valuation.

Continued explosive growth to ~7,000 employees, adding ~2,600 more roles in 2025.

Enterprise AI search company grew from ~1,323 to ~1,475 employees.

Anthropic grew to 1,097 employees by 2025 and announced plans to triple its international headcount, opening offices in Paris and Munich to expand its European presence.

Perplexity AI expanded from approximately 60 to 247 employees by 2025, adding 187 positions as the AI search startup raised its valuation to $18 billion.

Databricks continued its growth trajectory to approximately 8,000 staff globally by 2025, a 6x increase from 2020, driven by surging enterprise demand for AI infrastructure and its $3.7 billion annual revenue.

Replit recovered from 2024 layoffs, growing from ~70 to ~335 employees. AI Agent product drove hiring surge.

AI video generation company grew from ~198 (2023) to ~661 employees (2026), adding ~460 roles.

Defense AI company grew from ~290 to ~1,319 employees. Revenue ~$267M, growing 64% YoY.

Waymo grew from ~800 (2023) to ~2,500 employees (2025). Valuation $126B after $16B round.

Clinical documentation AI company grew to ~514 employees. $117M ARR, $5.3B valuation. Raised ~$800M total.

Japanese AI research company founded 2023, grew from 3 to ~138 employees. Founded by ex-Google Brain researchers.

Runway ML expanded from approximately 200 to 382 employees by April 2025, a 64% headcount increase, as the company continued developing AI-powered video generation tools.

Cursor AI coding assistant maker grew to ~60 employees by March 2025.

While cutting 12,000 traditional roles, TCS simultaneously targets hiring 12,000+ AI specialists for 2025, reflecting the shift from traditional IT to AI-first service delivery.

AI infrastructure company at ~403 employees. Pivoted from training to inference in 2025.

Infosys is hiring 15,000+ digital transformation experts as it pivots from traditional IT services to AI-driven solutions, even as it slows down fresher onboarding.

AI chip maker grew to ~784 employees. Filed for IPO in 2024.

Chinese AI research lab grew to ~160-200 employees. Known for efficient LLM training techniques.

AI video and 3D generation company grew to ~224 employees.

Hyundai-owned robotics company at ~1,200 employees. Developing Spot, Atlas, and Stretch robots.

Enterprise AI platform grew significantly, reaching $84M revenue in 2024. Estimated ~400 employees.

AI content platform grew to ~206 employees. Acquired by Fullcast in Oct 2025.

Jasper AI, the AI content generation platform founded in 2021, grew from 25 employees in 2022 to approximately 140 by 2025, a 600% increase, serving enterprise marketing teams.

Despite also cutting some roles, Accenture hired over 77,000 AI and data professionals in 2025, representing one of the largest AI hiring surges by any company.

AWS committed over $40 billion across Pennsylvania ($20B, 1,250 jobs), Georgia ($11B), and North Carolina ($10B, 500 jobs) to build AI data centers and infrastructure.

NVIDIA grew from ~29,600 to ~36,000 employees (21.6% growth) as AI GPU demand exploded.

Together AI, the open-source AI cloud platform founded in 2022, grew to 287 employees by 2024, building infrastructure for training and running open-source AI models.

Midjourney grew from 50 to 131 employees by 2024, a 1,091% increase from its 2022 launch team of 11. The company maintained a lean structure with 60-70 core engineers.

Replicate, the ML model hosting platform founded in 2019, grew to 37 employees by end of 2024. The company was later acquired by Cloudflare in November 2025.

Autonomous trucking company at ~1,800 employees. Launched commercial self-driving truck service.

AI21 Labs, the Tel Aviv-based AI company founded in 2017, grew to approximately 242 employees by 2024. The company developed the Jamba large language model and Wordtune writing assistant.

AI coding startup grew to ~256 employees after raising $500M from eBay, Nvidia, and others.

Defense AI company grew from ~2,400 to ~7,000 employees (2023-2025). Hired 1,000+ in 9 months in 2024.

Anthropic expanded from 240 to 1,035 employees by September 2024, a 331% increase in one year, driven by the success of Claude 3 and massive funding rounds totaling billions.

Aleph Alpha, Germany's leading AI startup founded in 2019 and headquartered in Heidelberg, grew to roughly 200 employees by September 2024. The company focuses on sovereign AI for European governments and enterprises.

OpenAI grew from 770 to 3,531 employees by September 2024, a 4.6x increase in under a year, reportedly onboarding up to 50 new employees per week during peak hiring in technical and research roles.

Toronto-based Cohere, focused on enterprise AI and LLMs, grew to approximately 400 employees by July 2024 following its $500 million funding round. The company was founded in 2019 by former Google Brain researchers.