I don't know which companies, of course. They hide their identity by using a botnet. This traffic is new, and started around when many AI startups started. I

I don't know which companies, of course. They hide their identity by using a botnet. This traffic is new, and started around when many AI startups started. I see traffic from new search engines and other crawlers, but it generally respects robots.txt and identifies itself, or else comes from a small pool of IP addresses.