{"company":{"id":130,"name":"Preferred Networks","domain":"preferred.jp","url":"https://alion.io/company/preferred-networks"},"answer":"As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 10 companies most like Preferred Networks: Getvinci, RLWRLD, Dyna Robotics, River AI, Google DeepMind, Physical Intelligence, Skild AI, StepFun, Mistral AI and X Square Robot.","highlights":["Preferred Networks itself has 58 open roles on Alion.","Of them, StepFun is hiring the most, with 252 open roles.","Mistral AI has raised the most venture funding on record: $6.6B.","Open roles at River AI rose the most: from 18 on Oct 12, 2026 to 23 now."],"as_of":"2026-11-13","cite":"Alion, \"Preferred Networks competitors and alternatives: 10 similar companies compared on hiring and funding\", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/preferred-networks/competitors","indexable":true,"target":{"name":"Preferred Networks","url":"https://alion.io/company/preferred-networks","domain":"preferred.jp","open_roles":58,"open_roles_change":null,"funding":{"total_raised_usd":null,"last_round":null,"last_round_usd":null,"last_round_date":null,"lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"201-500","headquarters":{"city":"Tokyo","country":"JP"},"technologies":["LLM","Python","C++"],"hiring_countries":["JP"],"similarity":null},"competitors":[{"name":"Getvinci","url":"https://alion.io/company/getvinci","domain":"getvinci.ai","open_roles":38,"open_roles_change":{"since":"2026-10-12","from":36,"to":38,"pct":6},"funding":{"total_raised_usd":null,"last_round":null,"last_round_usd":null,"last_round_date":null,"lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"201-500","headquarters":{"city":"Palo Alto","country":"US"},"technologies":["Python","C++","CUDA"],"hiring_countries":["US","DE","FR"],"similarity":{"score":16.05,"shared_segments":["Foundation Models","AI for Science"],"shared_technologies":["Python","C++","GCP","DeepSpeed","CI/CD"],"same_hq_country":false}},{"name":"RLWRLD","url":"https://alion.io/company/rlwrld-inc","domain":"rlwrld.ai","open_roles":37,"open_roles_change":null,"funding":{"total_raised_usd":15000000,"last_round":"seed","last_round_usd":15000000,"last_round_date":"2025-04-15","lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"51-200","headquarters":{"city":"Seoul","country":"KR"},"technologies":["Physical AI","Python","Vision-Language-Action"],"hiring_countries":["KR"],"similarity":{"score":14.73,"shared_segments":["Robotics AI","Foundation Models"],"shared_technologies":["Python","Java","Rust","C++","GCP"],"same_hq_country":false}},{"name":"Dyna Robotics","url":"https://alion.io/company/dynarobotics","domain":"dynarobotics.com","open_roles":28,"open_roles_change":{"since":"2026-10-12","from":23,"to":28,"pct":22},"funding":{"total_raised_usd":null,"last_round":null,"last_round_usd":null,"last_round_date":null,"lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"201-500","headquarters":{"city":"Redwood City","country":"US"},"technologies":["Embodied AI","Python","Linux"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"similarity":{"score":14.68,"shared_segments":["Robotics AI","Foundation Models"],"shared_technologies":["Python","Rust","C++","GCP","DeepSpeed"],"same_hq_country":false}},{"name":"River AI","url":"https://alion.io/company/river-ai","domain":"river.ai","open_roles":23,"open_roles_change":{"since":"2026-10-12","from":18,"to":23,"pct":28},"funding":{"total_raised_usd":1100000000,"last_round":"seed","last_round_usd":1100000000,"last_round_date":"2026-08-11","lead_investors":["General Catalyst","AMP PBC"]},"size_band":"11-50","headquarters":{"city":"Palo Alto","country":"US"},"technologies":["Pre-training","CUDA","C++"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"similarity":{"score":14.15,"shared_segments":["Foundation Models","AI Chips & Accelerators"],"shared_technologies":["Python","Rust","C++","Fine-tuning","CI/CD"],"same_hq_country":false}},{"name":"Google DeepMind","url":"https://alion.io/company/deepmind","domain":"deepmind.google","open_roles":143,"open_roles_change":null,"funding":{"total_raised_usd":null,"last_round":null,"last_round_usd":null,"last_round_date":null,"lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"5000+","headquarters":{"city":"London","country":"GB"},"technologies":["Machine Learning","Gemini","AI Agents"],"hiring_countries":["US","GB","SG"],"similarity":{"score":14.08,"shared_segments":["Foundation Models","AI for Science"],"shared_technologies":["Python","Java","Rust","C++","GCP"],"same_hq_country":false}},{"name":"Physical Intelligence","url":"https://alion.io/company/physicalintelligence","domain":"pi.website","open_roles":43,"open_roles_change":null,"funding":{"total_raised_usd":null,"last_round":null,"last_round_usd":null,"last_round_date":null,"lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"51-200","headquarters":{"city":"San Francisco","country":"US"},"technologies":["Python","Kubernetes","C++"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"similarity":{"score":13.8,"shared_segments":["Robotics AI","Foundation Models"],"shared_technologies":["Python","Rust","C++","GCP","Fine-tuning"],"same_hq_country":false}},{"name":"Skild AI","url":"https://alion.io/company/skild","domain":"skild.ai","open_roles":56,"open_roles_change":{"since":"2026-10-12","from":45,"to":56,"pct":24},"funding":{"total_raised_usd":1700000000,"last_round":"venture","last_round_usd":1400000000,"last_round_date":"2026-01-14","lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"201-500","headquarters":{"city":"Pittsburgh","country":"US"},"technologies":["Machine Learning","Python","C++"],"hiring_countries":["US","IN"],"similarity":{"score":13.75,"shared_segments":["Robotics AI","Foundation Models"],"shared_technologies":["Python","Java","Rust","C++","GCP"],"same_hq_country":false}},{"name":"StepFun","url":"https://alion.io/company/stepfun-com","domain":"stepfun.com","open_roles":252,"open_roles_change":null,"funding":{"total_raised_usd":null,"last_round":"series_b","last_round_usd":null,"last_round_date":"2024-12-27","lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"201-500","headquarters":{"city":"Shanghai","country":"CN"},"technologies":["Python","Java","LLM"],"hiring_countries":["CN","US"],"similarity":{"score":13.72,"shared_segments":["Foundation Models"],"shared_technologies":["Python","Java","Rust","C++","GCP"],"same_hq_country":false}},{"name":"Mistral AI","url":"https://alion.io/company/mistral-ai","domain":"mistral.ai","open_roles":237,"open_roles_change":{"since":"2026-10-12","from":211,"to":237,"pct":12},"funding":{"total_raised_usd":6568000000,"last_round":"venture","last_round_usd":3500000000,"last_round_date":"2026-09-08","lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"1001-5000","headquarters":{"city":"Paris","country":"FR"},"technologies":["Python","Mistral SDK","Mistral"],"hiring_countries":["FR","GB","US"],"similarity":{"score":13.42,"shared_segments":["Foundation Models"],"shared_technologies":["Python","Java","Rust","C++","GCP"],"same_hq_country":false}},{"name":"X Square Robot","url":"https://alion.io/company/x2robot","domain":"x2robot.com","open_roles":153,"open_roles_change":null,"funding":{"total_raised_usd":420000000,"last_round":"series_c","last_round_usd":null,"last_round_date":"2026-06-30","lead_investors":[]},"size_band":"201-500","headquarters":{"city":"Shenzhen","country":"CN"},"technologies":["C++","Python","ROS2"],"hiring_countries":["CN"],"similarity":{"score":13.35,"shared_segments":["Robotics AI","Foundation Models"],"shared_technologies":["Python","Java","Rust","C++","CI/CD"],"same_hq_country":false}}],"method":"Ranked by Alion's similar-companies engine (the MCP tool similar_companies): shared industry segments and the overlap of the two segment sets, technologies named in both companies' job postings, the same headquarters country, a size band near it. Open roles are the visible postings on Alion today; their change is shown only for boards that state posting dates.","html_url":"https://alion.io/company/preferred-networks/competitors","json_url":"https://alion.io/company/preferred-networks/competitors.json","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","meta":{"source":"Alion","built_at":"2026-11-13T08:51:28Z","generated_at":"2026-11-14T16:09:49Z"}}