A short list, kept honest. Every entry is a company that genuinely builds AI, with a link so you can check it yourself.
Most "top AI companies in New Zealand" lists are aggregator pages padded with agencies that resell somebody else's API, and several circulating right now contain companies that do not exist. This list is shorter than those on purpose.
Autonomous digital people with animated faces, spun out of the University of Auckland's Laboratory for Animate Technologies.
Breast imaging analytics used in screening, FDA cleared and sold into US health systems. Acquired by Lunit in 2024, engineering still in Wellington.
Generative AI for market research, turning survey and open-text data into summarised insight.
Analyses open-ended customer feedback at volume and groups it into themes.
Conversational AI and digital employees, mostly customer service for government and enterprise.
Flint is an independent AI lab in Auckland building a desktop AI agent for Windows. We do not train our own models, and we say so on the pricing page next to the name of every model we run.