Alibaba. Reason: Qwen, open source work.

Meta. Reason: open source work (although this is love/hate due to privacy etc etc)

Google. Reason: Free services, open source work, creation of modern AI (including Transformers).

OpenAI. Reason: Chat GPT 4o, driving the industry forward (less so now)

BBC. For doing us proud.

Raspberry PI Holdings. Reason: Progressing education, affordable SBCs, following a proud tradition (Acorn, ARM, Sinclair)

Espressif. Reason: ESP series products (cheap, easy to use, feature Laden)

LONGi & Trina Solar: Reason: Perovskite solar panel innovations

Runners up (publicly funded so not companies as such):

CERN: Reason: Research and open source work.

NASA: Reason: Research.

Purism, because they created a usable GNU/Linux phone and offer Linux laptops. They also wrote a lot of dedicated free software for them.

Pine64, because they offer various Linux-first hardware and a cheap GNU/Linux phone.

System76 for their Linux laptops and Cosmic desktop environment.

See also:

Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

63 points by mholt on Jan 22, 2021 | 79 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25869285

Ask HN: What are ethical companies like Patagonia and some digital counterparts?

48 points by maremmano on Dec 28, 2023 | 58 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38796842

Who actually cares?

Why? All these companies are not your friends.

All companies are bad because they all prioritize profits