BHP

BHP (NYSE: BHP) is the world's largest mining company by market value, with major positions in iron ore, copper, and other commodities central to electrification and the energy transition. It is included here as an AI adopter: BHP applies machine learning across its operations — optimizing copper recovery in its processing plants, running autonomous haulage and drilling, building digital twins of operations, and using predictive maintenance to reduce equipment downtime. Like Rio Tinto, it both deploys automation at scale and partners with technology vendors rather than selling AI itself. The honest framing is that BHP is a mining company that uses AI to squeeze more output, safety, and efficiency from enormous capital-intensive operations, not an AI-product company; its value rests on its orebodies and on commodity demand, with AI and automation as levers on unit cost and productivity.