01.AI Startup lab · Beijing, China Beijing, China Kai-Fu Lee's lab behind the open Yi models, now focused on enterprise AI products. Startup lab Kai-Fu Lee's lab behind the open Yi models, now focused on enterprise AI products. 2023 Yi-34B 0 1X Technologies Startup lab · Palo Alto, United States Palo Alto, United States Humanoid robotics company, founded as Halodi Robotics, building home robots and a world model for robot learning. Startup lab Humanoid robotics company, founded as Halodi Robotics, building home robots and a world model for robot learning. 2014 None 0 Adept AI Labs Startup lab Agent startup that trained models to act in software, releasing the open Persimmon-8B and Fuyu-8B multimodal models. Startup lab Agent startup that trained models to act in software, releasing the open Persimmon-8B and Fuyu-8B multimodal models. n/a None 0 Adobe Research Company lab · United States United States Adobe's research lab for graphics, imaging and generative AI, including 3D reconstruction and fast diffusion distillation. Company lab Adobe's research lab for graphics, imaging and generative AI, including 3D reconstruction and fast diffusion distillation. n/a None 0 AI Now Institute Nonprofit · New York, United States New York, United States Independent research institute founded in 2017 producing policy research on the social impact of AI and industry power. Nonprofit Independent research institute founded in 2017 producing policy research on the social impact of AI and industry power. 2017 None 0 AI Singapore Government · Singapore, SG Singapore, SG Singapore's national AI programme launched in May 2017, which develops the SEA-LION Southeast Asian language models. Government Singapore's national AI programme launched in May 2017, which develops the SEA-LION Southeast Asian language models. 2017 None 0 Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) Nonprofit · Seattle, United States Seattle, United States Fully open models with their data and training code: OLMo, Tulu, Molmo, and the Dolma corpus. Nonprofit Fully open models with their data and training code: OLMo, Tulu, Molmo, and the Dolma corpus. 2014 OLMo 1 AI21 Labs Startup lab · Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv, Israel Jamba, the first production-scale hybrid of Transformer and Mamba layers. Startup lab Jamba, the first production-scale hybrid of Transformer and Mamba layers. 2017 None 0 AI4Bharat Academic · Chennai, IN Chennai, IN IIT Madras lab building open datasets, tools and models for Indian languages. Academic IIT Madras lab building open datasets, tools and models for Indian languages. n/a None 0 Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) Nonprofit · Edmonton, Canada Edmonton, Canada Independent non-profit AI institute in Edmonton, begun in 2002 as AICML and one of three Pan-Canadian AI Strategy institutes. Nonprofit Independent non-profit AI institute in Edmonton, begun in 2002 as AICML and one of three Pan-Canadian AI Strategy institutes. 2002 None 0 Aleph Alpha Startup lab · Heidelberg, Germany Heidelberg, Germany German company building sovereign LLMs for enterprises and governments, including Pharia models and tokenizer-free T-FREE research. Startup lab German company building sovereign LLMs for enterprises and governments, including Pharia models and tokenizer-free T-FREE research. 2019 None 0 Alibaba DAMO Academy Company lab · China China Alibaba's research academy, whose language technology lab builds VideoLLaMA and the SeaLLMs Southeast Asian language models. Company lab Alibaba's research academy, whose language technology lab builds VideoLLaMA and the SeaLLMs Southeast Asian language models. n/a None 0 Alibaba Qwen Company lab · Hangzhou, China Hangzhou, China The Qwen family, the most downloaded open-weight models, from Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi lab. Company lab The Qwen family, the most downloaded open-weight models, from Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi lab. 2023 Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 1 Alignment Research Center (ARC) Nonprofit · Berkeley, United States Berkeley, United States Berkeley non-profit founded by Paul Christiano in 2021, working on theory for mechanistic explanations of neural networks. Nonprofit Berkeley non-profit founded by Paul Christiano in 2021, working on theory for mechanistic explanations of neural networks. 2021 None 0 Amazon AGI and Amazon Science Company lab · Seattle, United States Seattle, United States The Amazon Nova models and Nova Act agents, plus Chronos forecasting models from Amazon Science. Company lab The Amazon Nova models and Nova Act agents, plus Chronos forecasting models from Amazon Science. n/a Amazon Nova 0 Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab) Academic · Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands University of Amsterdam lab on deep generative models, probabilistic ML and geometric deep learning. Academic University of Amsterdam lab on deep generative models, probabilistic ML and geometric deep learning. n/a None 0 Answer.AI Startup lab R&D lab from Jeremy Howard and Eric Ries turning foundational research into practical tools, such as FSDP+QLoRA and ModernBERT. Startup lab R&D lab from Jeremy Howard and Eric Ries turning foundational research into practical tools, such as FSDP+QLoRA and ModernBERT. 2023 None 0 Anthropic Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States The Claude models, Constitutional AI and interpretability research on what happens inside models. Startup lab The Claude models, Constitutional AI and interpretability research on what happens inside models. 2021 Claude Fable 5.1 4 Apollo Research Nonprofit AI safety organization focused on evaluating and monitoring scheming and deception in frontier AI systems. Nonprofit AI safety organization focused on evaluating and monitoring scheming and deception in frontier AI systems. 2023 None 0 Apple Machine Learning Research Company lab · Cupertino, United States Cupertino, United States On-device models for Apple Intelligence, the MLX framework for Apple silicon, and studies of reasoning limits. Company lab On-device models for Apple Intelligence, the MLX framework for Apple silicon, and studies of reasoning limits. n/a None 0 Arcee AI Startup lab · United States United States US company releasing open-weight models such as AFM and Trinity, and creator of the MergeKit model-merging toolkit. Startup lab US company releasing open-weight models such as AFM and Trinity, and creator of the MergeKit model-merging toolkit. n/a None 0 BAAI (Beijing Academy of AI) Nonprofit · Beijing, China Beijing, China The BGE embedding models used across open retrieval stacks, the Emu multimodal models and FlagOpen. Nonprofit The BGE embedding models used across open retrieval stacks, the Emu multimodal models and FlagOpen. 2018 BGE-M3 0 Baichuan AI Startup lab · Beijing, China Beijing, China Beijing AI company, one of China's AI Tigers, known for the open Baichuan language models and medical models. Startup lab Beijing AI company, one of China's AI Tigers, known for the open Baichuan language models and medical models. 2023 None 0 Baidu (ERNIE) Company lab · Beijing, China Beijing, China The ERNIE models and PaddlePaddle, and earlier Deep Speech 2 from its Silicon Valley lab. Company lab The ERNIE models and PaddlePaddle, and earlier Deep Speech 2 from its Silicon Valley lab. n/a Ernie 5.1 0 Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) Government · Beijing, China Beijing, China Beijing AGI research institute founded in 2020 by Song-Chun Zhu with Beijing municipal government support. Government Beijing AGI research institute founded in 2020 by Song-Chun Zhu with Beijing municipal government support. 2020 None 0 Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Academic · Berkeley, California, United States Berkeley, California, United States Diffusion models (DDPM), NeRF, robot learning, and open chat models such as Vicuna. Academic Diffusion models (DDPM), NeRF, robot learning, and open chat models such as Vicuna. n/a None 2 Berkeley Sky Computing Lab Academic · Berkeley, California, United States Berkeley, California, United States The systems lab after AMPLab (Spark) and RISELab (Ray): vLLM, SkyPilot and Chatbot Arena. Academic The systems lab after AMPLab (Spark) and RISELab (Ray): vLLM, SkyPilot and Chatbot Arena. n/a None 2 Black Forest Labs Startup lab · Freiburg, Germany Freiburg, Germany The FLUX image models, from the researchers behind latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion. Startup lab The FLUX image models, from the researchers behind latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion. 2024 FLUX 0 Bloomberg AI Engineering Company lab · New York City, United States New York City, United States Bloomberg's AI group, known for BloombergGPT, a 50-billion-parameter language model trained for finance. Company lab Bloomberg's AI group, known for BloombergGPT, a 50-billion-parameter language model trained for finance. n/a None 0 ByteDance Seed Company lab · China China ByteDance's model team behind Doubao, the UI-TARS computer-use agents and Seedance video generation. Company lab ByteDance's model team behind Doubao, the UI-TARS computer-use agents and Seedance video generation. n/a None 0 Cambridge Machine Learning Group (MLG) Academic · Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge, United Kingdom Machine learning group in the Cambridge Department of Engineering, known for probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning. Academic Machine learning group in the Cambridge Department of Engineering, known for probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning. n/a None 0 Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (CAISI) Government · Canada Canada Canada's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 and led by ISED with NRC and CIFAR research partners. Government Canada's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 and led by ISED with NRC and CIFAR research partners. 2024 None 0 Cartesia Startup lab · United States United States Real-time voice AI company pioneering new model architectures, maker of the Sonic text-to-speech models. Startup lab Real-time voice AI company pioneering new model architectures, maker of the Sonic text-to-speech models. n/a None 0 Center for AI Safety (CAIS) Nonprofit · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States San Francisco nonprofit doing technical AI safety research and field-building; organized the 2023 Statement on AI Risk. Nonprofit San Francisco nonprofit doing technical AI safety research and field-building; organized the 2023 Statement on AI Risk. 2022 None 0 Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) Academic · Berkeley, United States Berkeley, United States UC Berkeley AI safety research center founded in 2016 by a group led by Stuart Russell. Academic UC Berkeley AI safety research center founded in 2016 by a group led by Stuart Russell. 2016 None 0 Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) Nonprofit · London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom AI governance think tank founded at Yale in 2016, now an independent non-profit with offices in London and Washington, DC. Nonprofit AI governance think tank founded at Yale in 2016, now an independent non-profit with offices in London and Washington, DC. 2016 None 0 Cerebras Systems Startup lab · Sunnyvale, United States Sunnyvale, United States Maker of wafer-scale AI chips whose research team released open Cerebras-GPT and BTLM language models. Startup lab Maker of wafer-scale AI chips whose research team released open Cerebras-GPT and BTLM language models. 2015 None 0 Chai Discovery Startup lab Company building AI models of biochemical structure and interaction for molecular design, starting with Chai-1. Startup lab Company building AI models of biochemical structure and interaction for molecular design, starting with Chai-1. n/a None 0 Character.AI Startup lab · United States United States Consumer chatbot company founded by LaMDA developers Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, training its own conversational models. Startup lab Consumer chatbot company founded by LaMDA developers Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, training its own conversational models. 2022 None 0 CILVR Lab (Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics) Academic · New York, United States New York, United States NYU machine learning and vision lab founded in 2009 by Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus. Academic NYU machine learning and vision lab founded in 2009 by Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus. 2009 None 0 Cleanlab Startup lab Data-centric AI company built on confident learning, a method for finding label errors in datasets. Startup lab Data-centric AI company built on confident learning, a method for finding label errors in datasets. n/a None 0 CMU Database Group Academic · Pittsburgh, United States Pittsburgh, United States Database systems research and teaching in the open: self-driving databases, NoisePage and the Database of Databases. Academic Database systems research and teaching in the open: self-driving databases, NoisePage and the Database of Databases. n/a None 0 CMU Language Technologies Institute (LTI) Academic · Pittsburgh, United States Pittsburgh, United States CMU institute for language technologies, begun in 1986 as the Center for Machine Translation and renamed LTI in 1996. Academic CMU institute for language technologies, begun in 1986 as the Center for Machine Translation and renamed LTI in 1996. 1986 None 0 CMU Machine Learning Department Academic · Pittsburgh, United States Pittsburgh, United States The world's first machine learning department: Libratus poker, Transformer-XL, XLNet and Mamba. Academic The world's first machine learning department: Libratus poker, Transformer-XL, XLNet and Mamba. 2006 None 1 CMU Robotics Institute Academic · Pittsburgh, United States Pittsburgh, United States CMU robotics department founded in 1979, known for computer vision, autonomous vehicles and the first robotics PhD program. Academic CMU robotics department founded in 1979, known for computer vision, autonomous vehicles and the first robotics PhD program. 1979 None 0 Cognition Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States San Francisco company behind Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, and its own SWE agent models. Startup lab San Francisco company behind Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, and its own SWE agent models. n/a None 0 Cohere and Cohere Labs Startup lab · Toronto, Canada Toronto, Canada Enterprise models (Command, Embed, Rerank) and Cohere Labs' open multilingual Aya research. Startup lab Enterprise models (Command, Embed, Rerank) and Cohere Labs' open multilingual Aya research. 2019 Command A 0 Columbia Data Science Institute Academic · New York, United States New York, United States University-wide data science institute at Columbia, founded in 2012 within Columbia Engineering. Academic University-wide data science institute at Columbia, founded in 2012 within Columbia Engineering. 2012 None 0 Common Crawl Foundation Nonprofit · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit that crawls the web monthly and publishes a free open archive of web data collected since 2008. Nonprofit 501(c)(3) nonprofit that crawls the web monthly and publishes a free open archive of web data collected since 2008. 2007 None 0 Contextual AI Startup lab · Mountain View, United States Mountain View, United States Enterprise RAG company founded by RAG co-author Douwe Kiela, known for RAG 2.0 and the KTO alignment method. Startup lab Enterprise RAG company founded by RAG co-author Douwe Kiela, known for RAG 2.0 and the KTO alignment method. 2023 None 0 Covariant Startup lab · Emeryville, United States Emeryville, United States American AI and robotics company, formerly Embodied Intelligence, headquartered in Emeryville, California. Startup lab American AI and robotics company, formerly Embodied Intelligence, headquartered in Emeryville, California. n/a None 0 CWI Database Architectures Academic · Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands Column stores and vectorized execution: MonetDB, X100 (Vectorwise) and the research that became DuckDB. Academic Column stores and vectorized execution: MonetDB, X100 (Vectorwise) and the research that became DuckDB. n/a None 0 Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) Academic · Lugano, Switzerland Lugano, Switzerland Swiss AI institute in Lugano founded in 1988, known for early deep learning and recurrent network research. Academic Swiss AI institute in Lugano founded in 1988, known for early deep learning and recurrent network research. 1988 None 0 Databricks Mosaic Research Company lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States Open models (MPT, DBRX) and training at scale, from the MosaicML team Databricks bought in 2023; Spark lineage. Company lab Open models (MPT, DBRX) and training at scale, from the MosaicML team Databricks bought in 2023; Spark lineage. 2023 None 1 DatologyAI Startup lab · Redwood City, United States Redwood City, United States Data curation company that researches how selecting and synthesizing training data makes models better and cheaper. Startup lab Data curation company that researches how selecting and synthesizing training data makes models better and cheaper. 2023 None 0 Decart Startup lab · Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv, Israel Real-time generative video lab, known for Oasis, a playable AI-generated game world model. Startup lab Real-time generative video lab, known for Oasis, a playable AI-generated game world model. 2023 None 0 Deep Cogito Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States San Francisco lab releasing open Cogito models trained with iterated distillation and amplification. Startup lab San Francisco lab releasing open Cogito models trained with iterated distillation and amplification. n/a None 0 DeepL Startup lab · Cologne, Germany Cologne, Germany German AI research company known for the DeepL Translator and its own translation-focused language models. Startup lab German AI research company known for the DeepL Translator and its own translation-focused language models. 2017 None 0 DeepSeek Startup lab · Hangzhou, China Hangzhou, China Frontier-class open-weight models trained cheaply: DeepSeek-V3's efficient MoE and R1's open reasoning recipe. Startup lab Frontier-class open-weight models trained cheaply: DeepSeek-V3's efficient MoE and R1's open reasoning recipe. 2023 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 2 Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) Nonprofit Independent, community-rooted AI research institute founded by Timnit Gebru in December 2021. Nonprofit Independent, community-rooted AI research institute founded by Timnit Gebru in December 2021. 2021 None 0 DuckLabs (DuckDB Labs) Startup lab · Netherlands Netherlands The company of DuckDB's creators, the in-process analytics database born at CWI; Amazon agreed to buy it in 2026. Startup lab The company of DuckDB's creators, the in-process analytics database born at CWI; Amazon agreed to buy it in 2026. n/a None 0 EdinburghNLP Academic · Edinburgh, United Kingdom Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh NLP group, known for machine translation work including subword (BPE) units and the Nematus toolkit. Academic University of Edinburgh NLP group, known for machine translation work including subword (BPE) units and the Nematus toolkit. n/a None 0 EleutherAI Nonprofit · United States United States Grassroots open research: The Pile, GPT-NeoX and Pythia, and the LM Evaluation Harness everyone uses. Nonprofit Grassroots open research: The Pile, GPT-NeoX and Pythia, and the LM Evaluation Harness everyone uses. 2020 None 0 ElevenLabs Startup lab · London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom AI audio research and product company known for natural-sounding speech synthesis and voice agent models. Startup lab AI audio research and product company known for natural-sounding speech synthesis and voice agent models. 2022 None 0 EPFL Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory (MLO) Academic · Lausanne, Switzerland Lausanne, Switzerland EPFL lab on optimization and distributed machine learning, known for sent2vec and the MEDITRON medical LLMs. Academic EPFL lab on optimization and distributed machine learning, known for sent2vec and the MEDITRON medical LLMs. n/a None 0 Epoch AI Nonprofit · United States United States Data on AI's trajectory: training compute trends, data limits, and the FrontierMath benchmark. Nonprofit Data on AI's trajectory: training compute trends, data limits, and the FrontierMath benchmark. 2022 None 0 Essential AI Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States San Francisco lab led by Ashish Vaswani, publishing open pretraining research, datasets and the Rnj-1 model. Startup lab San Francisco lab led by Ashish Vaswani, publishing open pretraining research, datasets and the Rnj-1 model. n/a None 0 ETH AI Center Academic · Zurich, Switzerland Zurich, Switzerland ETH Zurich's cross-department AI hub and a driver of the Swiss AI Initiative's open Apertus model. Academic ETH Zurich's cross-department AI hub and a driver of the Swiss AI Initiative's open Apertus model. 2020 None 0 European AI Office Government · Brussels, BE Brussels, BE European Commission body that implements the EU AI Act, especially rules for general-purpose AI models. Government European Commission body that implements the EU AI Act, especially rules for general-purpose AI models. 2024 None 0 European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Nonprofit Pan-European AI network of excellence founded in 2018, with institutes and units at research institutions across Europe. Nonprofit Pan-European AI network of excellence founded in 2018, with institutes and units at research institutions across Europe. 2018 None 0 EvolutionaryScale Startup lab · United States United States Frontier AI lab for the life sciences, maker of the ESM3 generative protein language model and ESM Cambrian. Startup lab Frontier AI lab for the life sciences, maker of the ESM3 generative protein language model and ESM Cambrian. n/a None 0 FAR.AI Nonprofit AI security research and adoption non-profit, known for adversarial attacks on superhuman Go AIs and the tuned lens. Nonprofit AI security research and adoption non-profit, known for adversarial attacks on superhuman Go AIs and the tuned lens. n/a None 0 Figure AI Startup lab · Sunnyvale, United States Sunnyvale, United States Humanoid robot company founded by Brett Adcock, developer of the Figure robots and the Helix vision-language-action model. Startup lab Humanoid robot company founded by Brett Adcock, developer of the Figure robots and the Helix vision-language-action model. 2022 None 0 Fish Audio Company lab Company lab n/a None 0 Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Academic · London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom UCL unit set up by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in 1998 for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning; Geoffrey Hinton was founding director. Academic UCL unit set up by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in 1998 for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning; Geoffrey Hinton was founding director. 1998 None 0 Generate:Biomedicines Startup lab · United States United States Therapeutics company pioneering generative biology, known for the Chroma generative model for protein design. Startup lab Therapeutics company pioneering generative biology, known for the Chroma generative model for protein design. n/a None 0 Genmo Startup lab · United States United States Video generation lab that released Mochi 1, an open-source text-to-video model. Startup lab Video generation lab that released Mochi 1, an open-source text-to-video model. n/a None 0 German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Nonprofit · Kaiserslautern, Germany Kaiserslautern, Germany German AI research center founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership, with sites across Germany. Nonprofit German AI research center founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership, with sites across Germany. 1988 None 0 Google DeepMind Company lab · London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom AlphaGo and AlphaFold, deep reinforcement learning, and Google's Gemini models. Company lab AlphaGo and AlphaFold, deep reinforcement learning, and Google's Gemini models. 2010 Gemini 3.8 Flash 3 Google Research Company lab · Mountain View, United States Mountain View, United States The Transformer, BERT and T5, plus MapReduce and TensorFlow: much of the base of modern AI. Company lab The Transformer, BERT and T5, plus MapReduce and TensorFlow: much of the base of modern AI. 2000 None 4 H Company Startup lab · Paris, France Paris, France Paris startup building computer-use agents and the open Holo models that navigate user interfaces. Startup lab Paris startup building computer-use agents and the open Holo models that navigate user interfaces. 2023 None 0 Harmonic Startup lab Company building mathematical superintelligence; its Aristotle system reached gold-medal level at the 2025 IMO. Startup lab Company building mathematical superintelligence; its Aristotle system reached gold-medal level at the 2025 IMO. 2023 None 0 Hazy Research Academic · Stanford, United States Stanford, United States Chris Re's Stanford group on ML systems, known for FlashAttention, Snorkel weak supervision and structured state space models. Academic Chris Re's Stanford group on ML systems, known for FlashAttention, Snorkel weak supervision and structured state space models. n/a None 0 Huawei Noah's Ark Lab Company lab · China China Huawei's AI research center, known for PanGu language models and efficient models such as TinyBERT and GhostNet. Company lab Huawei's AI research center, known for PanGu language models and efficient models such as TinyBERT and GhostNet. n/a None 0 Hugging Face Startup lab · New York, United States New York, United States The Hub for open models and datasets and the Transformers library; also BLOOM, StarCoder, FineWeb and SmolLM. Startup lab The Hub for open models and datasets and the Transformers library; also BLOOM, StarCoder, FineWeb and SmolLM. 2016 None 0 Hume AI Startup lab Voice AI company grounded in emotion science, known for the Empathic Voice Interface and Octave text-to-speech. Startup lab Voice AI company grounded in emotion science, known for the Empathic Voice Interface and Octave text-to-speech. n/a None 0 IBM Research Company lab · Yorktown Heights, United States Yorktown Heights, United States Deep Blue and Watson, relational databases and quantum computing, and today the open Granite models. Company lab Deep Blue and Watson, relational databases and quantum computing, and today the open Granite models. 1945 IBM Granite 0 Ideogram Startup lab Maker of the Ideogram text-to-image models, noted for rendering legible text inside generated images. Startup lab Maker of the Ideogram text-to-image models, noted for rendering legible text inside generated images. n/a None 0 iFLYTEK Startup lab · Hefei, China Hefei, China Chinese speech and language AI company, known for voice recognition and, with HIT, the Chinese BERT-wwm and MacBERT models. Startup lab Chinese speech and language AI company, known for voice recognition and, with HIT, the Chinese BERT-wwm and MacBERT models. 1999 None 0 Imbue Startup lab · United States United States AI lab founded in 2021 that trained a 70B model from scratch and builds tools that put software under users' control. Startup lab AI lab founded in 2021 that trained a 70B model from scratch and builds tools that put software under users' control. 2021 None 0 Inception (G42) Company lab · AE AE G42's AI product and research company, known for the Jais Arabic-centric open language models. Company lab G42's AI product and research company, known for the Jais Arabic-centric open language models. n/a None 0 Inception Labs Startup lab AI research and product company building diffusion-based large language models, starting with Mercury. Startup lab AI research and product company building diffusion-based large language models, starting with Mercury. n/a None 0 inclusionAI (Ant Group) Company lab · China China Ant Group's open model lab behind the Ling language models and Ring reasoning models. Company lab Ant Group's open model lab behind the Ling language models and Ring reasoning models. n/a None 0 Inflection AI Startup lab · Palo Alto, United States Palo Alto, United States Public benefit corporation that built Pi, a personal AI assistant powered by the Inflection AI model stack. Startup lab Public benefit corporation that built Pi, a personal AI assistant powered by the Inflection AI model stack. 2022 None 0 Inria (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology) Government · Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France French national research institute for computer science and applied mathematics, where scikit-learn and Software Heritage began. Government French national research institute for computer science and applied mathematics, where scikit-learn and Software Heritage began. 1967 None 0 IN Institut national pour l'évaluation et la sécurité de l'intelligence artificielle (INESIA) Government · France France France's National Institute for AI Evaluation and Security, created by the French government on 31 January 2025. Government France's National Institute for AI Evaluation and Security, created by the French government on 31 January 2025. 2025 None 0 Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University Academic · Beijing, China Beijing, China Tsinghua institute for applied AI research in health, transportation and IoT, led by Dean Zhang Ya-Qin. Academic Tsinghua institute for applied AI research in health, transportation and IoT, led by Dean Zhang Ya-Qin. n/a None 0 Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University Academic · Beijing, China Beijing, China Peking University institute announced on 27 April 2019 to coordinate university-wide AI research and training. Academic Peking University institute announced on 27 April 2019 to coordinate university-wide AI research and training. 2019 None 0 Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) Government · Beijing, China Beijing, China Chinese Academy of Sciences institute founded in 1956 for intelligence science, pattern recognition and robotics. Government Chinese Academy of Sciences institute founded in 1956 for intelligence science, pattern recognition and robotics. 1956 None 0 Intel Labs Company lab · United States United States Intel's research organization; its Intelligent Systems Lab created the MiDaS monocular depth models and DPT. Company lab Intel's research organization; its Intelligent Systems Lab created the MiDaS monocular depth models and DPT. n/a None 0 Isomorphic Labs Company lab · London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom AI-first drug discovery spun out of DeepMind; co-developed AlphaFold 3. Company lab AI-first drug discovery spun out of DeepMind; co-developed AlphaFold 3. 2021 None 0 IVADO Academic · Montreal, Canada Montreal, Canada Quebec's largest interdisciplinary AI research, training and knowledge transfer consortium, led by Université de Montréal. Academic Quebec's largest interdisciplinary AI research, training and knowledge transfer consortium, led by Université de Montréal. n/a None 0 J.P. Morgan AI Research Company lab · New York City, United States New York City, United States JPMorgan Chase's AI research group studying AI agents, finance foundation models, synthetic data and document AI. Company lab JPMorgan Chase's AI research group studying AI agents, finance foundation models, synthetic data and document AI. n/a None 0 Japan AI Safety Institute (J-AISI) Government · Japan Japan Japan's AI safety institute, launched on 14 February 2024 within IPA to develop AI safety evaluation methods and standards. Government Japan's AI safety institute, launched on 14 February 2024 within IPA to develop AI safety evaluation methods and standards. 2024 None 0 Jina AI Startup lab · Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany Search AI company founded by Han Xiao, known for open embedding, reranker and reader models. Startup lab Search AI company founded by Han Xiao, known for open embedding, reranker and reader models. 2020 None 0 KA Kakao AI (Kanana) Company lab · KR KR Kakao's AI effort behind the Kanana bilingual Korean-English models, building on Kakao Brain's earlier KoGPT. Company lab Kakao's AI effort behind the Kanana bilingual Korean-English models, building on Kakao Brain's earlier KoGPT. n/a None 0 Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence Academic · Allston, United States Allston, United States Harvard institute studying intelligence in brains and machines, funded by a Chan Zuckerberg gift in 2021. Academic Harvard institute studying intelligence in brains and machines, funded by a Chan Zuckerberg gift in 2021. 2021 None 0 Kling AI (Kuaishou) Company lab · Beijing, China Beijing, China Kuaishou's generative video unit behind the Kling video model, plus open work such as LivePortrait and Kolors. Company lab Kuaishou's generative video unit behind the Kling video model, plus open work such as LivePortrait and Kolors. 2024 None 0 Korea AI Safety Institute Government · Seongnam, KR Seongnam, KR South Korea's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 under ETRI and based in Bundang, Seongnam. Government South Korea's AI safety institute, founded in November 2024 under ETRI and based in Bundang, Seongnam. 2024 None 0 Kyutai Nonprofit · Paris, France Paris, France Open-science lab funded by Xavier Niel and partners: Moshi real-time voice and Hibiki live translation. Nonprofit Open-science lab funded by Xavier Niel and partners: Moshi real-time voice and Hibiki live translation. n/a None 0 LAION Nonprofit · Germany Germany Open image-text datasets (LAION-400M, LAION-5B) that trained Stable Diffusion and OpenCLIP. Nonprofit Open image-text datasets (LAION-400M, LAION-5B) that trained Stable Diffusion and OpenCLIP. n/a None 0 Latent Labs Startup lab Frontier AI lab building generative models of biology, known for Latent-X for de novo protein binder design. Startup lab Frontier AI lab building generative models of biology, known for Latent-X for de novo protein binder design. n/a None 0 LG AI Research Company lab · Seoul, KR Seoul, KR LG Group's AI research institute and developer of the EXAONE family of Korean-English language and reasoning models. Company lab LG Group's AI research institute and developer of the EXAONE family of Korean-English language and reasoning models. n/a None 0 LightOn Startup lab · France France French enterprise generative AI company, co-developer of ModernBERT and maker of late-interaction retrieval models. Startup lab French enterprise generative AI company, co-developer of ModernBERT and maker of late-interaction retrieval models. 2016 None 0 Lightricks Startup lab · Jerusalem, Israel Jerusalem, Israel Jerusalem creative-app company behind Facetune and the open LTX-Video real-time video generation models. Startup lab Jerusalem creative-app company behind Facetune and the open LTX-Video real-time video generation models. 2013 None 0 Liquid AI Startup lab · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Liquid foundation models (LFM) for devices, built on liquid neural network research from MIT CSAIL. Startup lab Liquid foundation models (LFM) for devices, built on liquid neural network research from MIT CSAIL. 2023 None 0 Luma AI Startup lab Generative video company behind Dream Machine and the Ray video models, with research on pretraining such as Inductive Moment Matching. Startup lab Generative video company behind Dream Machine and the Ray video models, with research on pretraining such as Inductive Moment Matching. n/a None 0 Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) Nonprofit · Berkeley, United States Berkeley, United States Berkeley nonprofit founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute, focused on existential risk from superintelligent AI. Nonprofit Berkeley nonprofit founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute, focused on existential risk from superintelligent AI. 2000 None 0 Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) Academic · Atlanta, United States Atlanta, United States Interdisciplinary machine learning research center at Georgia Tech, founded in 2016. Academic Interdisciplinary machine learning research center at Georgia Tech, founded in 2016. 2016 None 0 Magic Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States AGI startup building code models with ultra-long context, including 100M-token context windows and the HashHop eval. Startup lab AGI startup building code models with ultra-long context, including 100M-token context windows and the HashHop eval. n/a None 0 Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory, University of Tokyo Academic · Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan University of Tokyo deep learning lab working on world models, robotics and LLMs, with many spin-off startups. Academic University of Tokyo deep learning lab working on world models, robotics and LLMs, with many spin-off startups. n/a None 0 Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Academic · Stuttgart, Germany Stuttgart, Germany Causal inference and kernel methods (Scholkopf), and the SMPL body model used across graphics and vision. Academic Causal inference and kernel methods (Scholkopf), and the SMPL body model used across graphics and vision. 2011 None 0 Megvii Startup lab · Beijing, China Beijing, China Beijing computer vision company behind Face++, with research on efficient networks such as ShuffleNet and the YOLOX detector. Startup lab Beijing computer vision company behind Face++, with research on efficient networks such as ShuffleNet and the YOLOX detector. 2011 None 0 Meituan LongCat Company lab · China China Meituan's LongCat team, which releases the open LongCat-Flash mixture-of-experts language models. Company lab Meituan's LongCat team, which releases the open LongCat-Flash mixture-of-experts language models. n/a None 0 Meta FAIR Company lab · New York, United States New York, United States PyTorch, the open Llama models, Segment Anything and self-supervised vision (DINO). Company lab PyTorch, the open Llama models, Segment Anything and self-supervised vision (DINO). 2013 None 4 Meta Superintelligence Labs Company lab · Menlo Park, United States Menlo Park, United States Meta's frontier model effort, formed in 2025 under Alexandr Wang; it builds the Muse models and now houses FAIR. Company lab Meta's frontier model effort, formed in 2025 under Alexandr Wang; it builds the Muse models and now houses FAIR. 2025 Muse Spark 1.3 0 METR Nonprofit · Berkeley, California, United States Berkeley, California, United States Evaluating dangerous capabilities: the time-horizon measure of how long a task AI agents can finish. Nonprofit Evaluating dangerous capabilities: the time-horizon measure of how long a task AI agents can finish. 2022 None 0 Microsoft AI Company lab · Redmond, United States Redmond, United States Copilot for consumers and Microsoft's own MAI models, led by Mustafa Suleyman since 2024. Company lab Copilot for consumers and Microsoft's own MAI models, led by Mustafa Suleyman since 2024. 2024 None 0 Microsoft Research Company lab · Redmond, United States Redmond, United States ResNet, LoRA, DeepSpeed and the small Phi models, from a lab spanning systems, theory and AI. Company lab ResNet, LoRA, DeepSpeed and the small Phi models, from a lab spanning systems, theory and AI. 1991 Phi-4 4 Midjourney Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States Self-described independent research lab led by David Holz, known for the Midjourney text-to-image models. Startup lab Self-described independent research lab led by David Holz, known for the Midjourney text-to-image models. n/a None 0 Mila Academic · Montreal, Canada Montreal, Canada Yoshua Bengio's institute: neural language models, attention for translation, GANs and Theano. Academic Yoshua Bengio's institute: neural language models, attention for translation, GANs and Theano. 1993 None 0 MiniMax Startup lab · Shanghai, China Shanghai, China Lightning attention for million-token context in open models, plus Hailuo video and speech models. Startup lab Lightning attention for million-token context in open models, plus Hailuo video and speech models. 2021 None 0 Mistral AI Startup lab · Paris, France Paris, France Europe's leading model maker: efficient open-weight models, Mixtral's mixture of experts, and Le Chat. Startup lab Europe's leading model maker: efficient open-weight models, Mixtral's mixture of experts, and Le Chat. 2023 Mistral Medium 3 0 MIT CSAIL Academic · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States MIT's largest lab: robotics, the Julia language, adversarial robustness and the lottery ticket hypothesis. Academic MIT's largest lab: robotics, the Julia language, adversarial robustness and the lottery ticket hypothesis. 2003 None 0 MIT Data Systems Group (DSG) Academic · Cambridge, United States Cambridge, United States MIT CSAIL group researching data management, from query processing to learned database systems such as SageDB. Academic MIT CSAIL group researching data management, from query processing to learned database systems such as SageDB. n/a None 0 MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab (formerly MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) Academic · Cambridge, United States Cambridge, United States MIT and IBM joint research lab, evolved from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab that began in 2017. Academic MIT and IBM joint research lab, evolved from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab that began in 2017. 2017 None 0 ModelBest (OpenBMB) Startup lab · Beijing, China Beijing, China Tsinghua-incubated Beijing company best known for the open MiniCPM small language and on-device multimodal models. Startup lab Tsinghua-incubated Beijing company best known for the open MiniCPM small language and on-device multimodal models. n/a None 0 Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) Academic · Abu Dhabi, AE Abu Dhabi, AE Graduate research university dedicated to AI in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, licensed in 2020. Academic Graduate research university dedicated to AI in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, licensed in 2020. 2020 None 0 Moonshot AI Startup lab · Beijing, China Beijing, China The Kimi models: long context early, then the open-weight Kimi K2 trained with the Muon optimizer. Startup lab The Kimi models: long context early, then the open-weight Kimi K2 trained with the Muon optimizer. 2023 Kimi K3 0 National Institute of Informatics (NII) and LLM-jp Government · Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan Japan's national informatics institute, established in 2000, whose LLM R&D center runs the open LLM-jp project. Government Japan's national informatics institute, established in 2000, whose LLM R&D center runs the open LLM-jp project. 2000 None 0 NAVER Cloud AI (CLOVA) Company lab · KR KR NAVER's AI research organization behind the HyperCLOVA X Korean language models and vision work such as CutMix and Donut. Company lab NAVER's AI research organization behind the HyperCLOVA X Korean language models and vision work such as CutMix and Donut. n/a None 0 Netflix Research Company lab · Los Gatos, United States Los Gatos, United States Netflix's research group publishing on machine learning, recommendation and video encoding. Company lab Netflix's research group publishing on machine learning, recommendation and video encoding. n/a None 0 Nomic AI Startup lab · United States United States Company behind GPT4All for local LLMs and the reproducible Nomic Embed text embedding models. Startup lab Company behind GPT4All for local LLMs and the reproducible Nomic Embed text embedding models. n/a None 0 Nous Research Startup lab · United States United States The open Hermes fine-tunes, YaRN context extension, and decentralized training over the internet. Startup lab The open Hermes fine-tunes, YaRN context extension, and decentralized training over the internet. n/a None 0 NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) Academic · Austin, United States Austin, United States NSF AI institute led by UT Austin, designated in 2020, working on foundational machine learning theory and tools. Academic NSF AI institute led by UT Austin, designated in 2020, working on foundational machine learning theory and tools. 2020 None 0 NVIDIA Research Company lab · Santa Clara, United States Santa Clara, United States StyleGAN, Megatron-LM for training giant models, Instant NeRF, and the open Nemotron models. Company lab StyleGAN, Megatron-LM for training giant models, Instant NeRF, and the open Nemotron models. 2006 Nemotron-4 340B 3 NYU Center for Data Science Academic · New York, United States New York, United States NYU's university-wide data science center, founded in 2013 with Yann LeCun as founding director. Academic NYU's university-wide data science center, founded in 2013 with Yann LeCun as founding director. 2013 None 0 OpenAI Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States The GPT models and ChatGPT, and the scaling results that set off the large language model race. Startup lab The GPT models and ChatGPT, and the scaling results that set off the large language model race. 2015 GPT-6 Astra 5 Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group (OATML) Academic · Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford Computer Science group led by Yarin Gal, working on Bayesian deep learning, uncertainty and AI safety. Academic Oxford Computer Science group led by Yarin Gal, working on Bayesian deep learning, uncertainty and AI safety. n/a None 0 Periodic Labs Startup lab · United States United States AI research company building AI scientists and autonomous laboratories for the physical sciences. Startup lab AI research company building AI scientists and autonomous laboratories for the physical sciences. n/a None 0 Perplexity Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States AI answer engine company that also releases open models such as the pplx-embed embedding family. Startup lab AI answer engine company that also releases open models such as the pplx-embed embedding family. 2022 None 0 Physical Intelligence Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States General-purpose robot foundation models: the pi-zero vision-language-action family, open-sourced as openpi. Startup lab General-purpose robot foundation models: the pi-zero vision-language-action family, open-sourced as openpi. 2024 None 0 Poolside Startup lab · United States United States AI company developing foundation models for software development, including the open-weight Laguna coding models. Startup lab AI company developing foundation models for software development, including the open-weight Laguna coding models. n/a None 0 Preferred Networks Startup lab · Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan Japanese deep learning company that created Chainer and Optuna and develops the PLaMo Japanese language models and its own AI chips. Startup lab Japanese deep learning company that created Chainer and Optuna and develops the PLaMo Japanese language models and its own AI chips. 2014 None 0 Prime Intellect Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States San Francisco company training models over decentralized compute, known for the INTELLECT series and RL environments. Startup lab San Francisco company training models over decentralized compute, known for the INTELLECT series and RL environments. n/a None 0 Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI) Academic · Princeton, United States Princeton, United States Princeton university-wide initiative on large AI models and their use across the sciences and humanities. Academic Princeton university-wide initiative on large AI models and their use across the sciences and humanities. n/a None 0 Princeton NLP Group Academic · Princeton, United States Princeton, United States Princeton natural language processing group behind SimCSE, SWE-bench and Tree of Thoughts. Academic Princeton natural language processing group behind SimCSE, SWE-bench and Tree of Thoughts. n/a None 0 Profluent Startup lab AI protein design company that created OpenCRISPR-1, described as the first AI-designed gene editor. Startup lab AI protein design company that created OpenCRISPR-1, described as the first AI-designed gene editor. n/a None 0 Qualcomm AI Research Company lab · United States United States Qualcomm's AI research group, focused on efficient on-device AI such as quantization and model compression. Company lab Qualcomm's AI research group, focused on efficient on-device AI such as quantization and model compression. n/a None 0 Recursion Startup lab · Salt Lake City, United States Salt Lake City, United States AI drug discovery company that builds foundation models of cell biology from large-scale microscopy data. Startup lab AI drug discovery company that builds foundation models of cell biology from large-scale microscopy data. 2013 None 0 RH RedNote hi lab Company lab · China China Xiaohongshu's AI lab, releasing the open dots.llm1 language model and dots.ocr document parser. Company lab Xiaohongshu's AI lab, releasing the open dots.llm1 language model and dots.ocr document parser. n/a None 0 Redwood Research Nonprofit · United States United States Nonprofit AI safety and security research organization that pioneered the AI control agenda. Nonprofit Nonprofit AI safety and security research organization that pioneered the AI control agenda. n/a None 0 Reflection AI Startup lab · Brooklyn, United States Brooklyn, United States Lab founded by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou to build open frontier models. Startup lab Lab founded by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou to build open frontier models. 2024 None 0 Reka Startup lab · Sunnyvale, United States Sunnyvale, United States Natively multimodal models (Core, Flash, Edge) from former DeepMind and Meta researchers. Startup lab Natively multimodal models (Core, Flash, Edge) from former DeepMind and Meta researchers. 2022 None 0 RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) Government · Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan RIKEN AI research center launched in 2016, covering mathematical foundations of ML, scientific AI and societal AI. Government RIKEN AI research center launched in 2016, covering mathematical foundations of ML, scientific AI and societal AI. 2016 None 0 Runway Startup lab · New York City, United States New York City, United States New York generative video company behind the Gen-3 and Gen-4 video models and the GWM-1 world model. Startup lab New York generative video company behind the Gen-3 and Gen-4 video models and the GWM-1 world model. 2018 None 0 Safe Superintelligence (SSI) Startup lab · Palo Alto, United States Palo Alto, United States Ilya Sutskever's lab with one goal and one product, a safe superintelligence; it has published nothing yet. Startup lab Ilya Sutskever's lab with one goal and one product, a safe superintelligence; it has published nothing yet. 2024 None 0 Sakana AI Startup lab · Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan Nature-inspired methods: evolutionary model merging and The AI Scientist, from a Transformer co-author. Startup lab Nature-inspired methods: evolutionary model merging and The AI Scientist, from a Transformer co-author. 2023 None 0 Salesforce AI Research Company lab · United States United States BLIP vision-language models, CodeT5, and xLAM action models for agents. Company lab BLIP vision-language models, CodeT5, and xLAM action models for agents. 2016 None 0 Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) Company lab · KR KR Samsung's advanced research institute; its SAIL Montreal AI lab released the Tiny Recursive Model for puzzle reasoning. Company lab Samsung's advanced research institute; its SAIL Montreal AI lab released the Tiny Recursive Model for puzzle reasoning. n/a None 0 Samsung Research Company lab · KR KR Samsung Electronics' R&D hub, running AI centers in Seoul, Mountain View, Toronto, Cambridge, Warsaw, New York and Montreal. Company lab Samsung Electronics' R&D hub, running AI centers in Seoul, Mountain View, Toronto, Cambridge, Warsaw, New York and Montreal. n/a None 0 Sarvam AI Startup lab · Bengaluru, IN Bengaluru, IN Bengaluru company building language models for Indian languages, part of India's sovereign LLM programme. Startup lab Bengaluru company building language models for Indian languages, part of India's sovereign LLM programme. 2023 None 0 SB Intuitions Company lab · Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan SoftBank subsidiary developing homegrown Japanese large language models under the Sarashina name. Company lab SoftBank subsidiary developing homegrown Japanese large language models under the Sarashina name. 2023 None 0 Scale Labs (Scale AI) Company lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States Scale AI's research arm for evaluation and alignment, co-creator of Humanity's Last Exam and SWE-Bench Pro. Company lab Scale AI's research arm for evaluation and alignment, co-creator of Humanity's Last Exam and SWE-Bench Pro. n/a None 0 SenseTime Startup lab · Hong Kong, HK Hong Kong, HK Hong Kong-listed AI company known for computer vision research and the SenseNova foundation model series. Startup lab Hong Kong-listed AI company known for computer vision research and the SenseNova foundation model series. 2014 None 0 ServiceNow AI Research Company lab · United States United States ServiceNow's AI research group, co-steward of the BigCode StarCoder project and maker of the Apriel models. Company lab ServiceNow's AI research group, co-steward of the BigCode StarCoder project and maker of the Apriel models. n/a None 0 Sesame Startup lab · United States United States Conversational voice company whose Conversational Speech Model aims to cross the uncanny valley of AI voice. Startup lab Conversational voice company whose Conversational Speech Model aims to cross the uncanny valley of AI voice. n/a None 0 Shanghai AI Laboratory Government · Shanghai, China Shanghai, China The InternLM and InternVL open models and the OpenCompass evaluation platform. Government The InternLM and InternVL open models and the OpenCompass evaluation platform. n/a None 0 Singapore AI Safety Institute (Digital Trust Centre) Government · Singapore, SG Singapore, SG Singapore's AI safety institute: the NTU Digital Trust Centre, founded in 2022 and designated the AISI in 2024, working with IMDA. Government Singapore's AI safety institute: the NTU Digital Trust Centre, founded in 2022 and designated the AISI in 2024, working with IMDA. 2022 None 0 Skild AI Startup lab Robotics company building an omni-bodied robot foundation model, the Skild Brain, to control any robot for any task. Startup lab Robotics company building an omni-bodied robot foundation model, the Skild Brain, to control any robot for any task. n/a None 0 Skywork AI (Kunlun Tech) Company lab · China China Kunlun Tech's AI unit releasing the open Skywork language, reasoning and reward models. Company lab Kunlun Tech's AI unit releasing the open Skywork language, reasoning and reward models. n/a None 0 Snap Research Company lab · United States United States Snap's research group, known for efficient generative image models that run on mobile devices. Company lab Snap's research group, known for efficient generative image models that run on mobile devices. n/a None 0 Snorkel AI Startup lab · United States United States Data-centric AI company spun out of the Stanford AI Lab, originating from the Snorkel weak supervision project. Startup lab Data-centric AI company spun out of the Stanford AI Lab, originating from the Snorkel weak supervision project. 2019 None 0 Snowflake AI Research Company lab · Menlo Park, United States Menlo Park, United States Arctic: open embedding models, the Arctic LLM, SwiftKV inference and text-to-SQL research. Company lab Arctic: open embedding models, the Arctic LLM, SwiftKV inference and text-to-SQL research. n/a None 3 Software Heritage Nonprofit · Rocquencourt, France Rocquencourt, France Non-profit archive of publicly available source code, launched by Inria in 2016 with UNESCO support. Nonprofit Non-profit archive of publicly available source code, launched by Inria in 2016 with UNESCO support. 2016 None 0 Sony AI Company lab · Japan Japan Sony Group's AI research subsidiary, known for the GT Sophy racing agent and the FHIBE fairness benchmark dataset. Company lab Sony Group's AI research subsidiary, known for the GT Sophy racing agent and the FHIBE fairness benchmark dataset. 2020 None 0 Spotify Research Company lab · SE SE Spotify's research team working on audio intelligence, recommendation and search, known for the Podcast Dataset and Basic Pitch. Company lab Spotify's research team working on audio intelligence, recommendation and search, known for the Podcast Dataset and Basic Pitch. n/a None 0 Stability AI Startup lab · London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom Stable Diffusion, the open image model release that opened up generative imaging in 2022. Startup lab Stable Diffusion, the open image model release that opened up generative imaging in 2022. 2019 None 0 Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) Academic · Stanford, United States Stanford, United States Stanford's umbrella AI lab for research and teaching across machine learning, vision, NLP and robotics since 1963. Academic Stanford's umbrella AI lab for research and teaching across machine learning, vision, NLP and robotics since 1963. 1963 None 0 Stanford DAWN Academic · Stanford, United States Stanford, United States Five-year Stanford project (2018 to 2022) on tools to democratize ML, including DAWNBench, Snorkel and ColBERT. Academic Five-year Stanford project (2018 to 2022) on tools to democratize ML, including DAWNBench, Snorkel and ColBERT. 2018 None 0 Stanford HAI and CRFM Academic · Stanford, California, United States Stanford, California, United States The AI Index, the term foundation models, the HELM benchmark and Alpaca, from Stanford's AI institute. Academic The AI Index, the term foundation models, the HELM benchmark and Alpaca, from Stanford's AI institute. 2019 None 2 Stanford NLP Group Academic · Stanford, United States Stanford, United States Stanford natural language processing group behind GloVe, SQuAD, CoreNLP, Stanza and DSPy. Academic Stanford natural language processing group behind GloVe, SQuAD, CoreNLP, Stanza and DSPy. n/a None 0 StepFun Startup lab · Shanghai, China Shanghai, China Shanghai AI company, one of China's AI Tigers, releasing open speech, video and multimodal reasoning models. Startup lab Shanghai AI company, one of China's AI Tigers, releasing open speech, video and multimodal reasoning models. n/a None 0 Suno Startup lab · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Music generation company whose models create songs with vocals from prompts; earlier released the open Bark audio model. Startup lab Music generation company whose models create songs with vocals from prompts; earlier released the open Bark audio model. 2022 None 0 Swiss AI Initiative Academic · Switzerland Switzerland Swiss open foundation model effort started in December 2023 by ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS, which released the Apertus LLM. Academic Swiss open foundation model effort started in December 2023 by ETH Zurich, EPFL and CSCS, which released the Apertus LLM. 2023 None 0 Synthesia Startup lab · London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom London AI video company that researches neural rendering and synthetic avatars for business video. Startup lab London AI video company that researches neural rendering and synthetic avatars for business video. 2017 None 0 Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Government · Abu Dhabi, AE Abu Dhabi, AE Abu Dhabi government-funded research institute, part of ATRC, that develops the Falcon open language models. Government Abu Dhabi government-funded research institute, part of ATRC, that develops the Falcon open language models. 2020 None 0 Tencent Hy (Hunyuan) Company lab · Shenzhen, China Shenzhen, China Tencent's Hunyuan models, with open releases in MoE language, video (HunyuanVideo) and 3D generation. Company lab Tencent's Hunyuan models, with open releases in MoE language, video (HunyuanVideo) and 3D generation. 2023 None 0 The Alan Turing Institute Nonprofit · London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom UK national institute for data science and AI, an independent charity based at the British Library, founded in 2015. Nonprofit UK national institute for data science and AI, an independent charity based at the British Library, founded in 2015. 2015 None 0 Thinking Machines Lab Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States Mira Murati's lab: Tinker, a fine-tuning API, and open research notes on reproducible inference. Startup lab Mira Murati's lab: Tinker, a fine-tuning API, and open research notes on reproducible inference. 2025 Inkling 0 Together AI Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States AI cloud company co-founded by researchers including Tri Dao, with research such as RedPajama and Mixture-of-Agents. Startup lab AI cloud company co-founded by researchers including Tri Dao, with research such as RedPajama and Mixture-of-Agents. n/a None 0 Toyota Research Institute Company lab · Los Altos, United States Los Altos, United States Toyota's research subsidiary for AI, robotics, automated driving and materials, known for diffusion-policy robot learning. Company lab Toyota's research subsidiary for AI, robotics, automated driving and materials, known for diffusion-policy robot learning. 2015 None 0 Transluce Nonprofit Independent nonprofit research lab building open tools for public oversight and understanding of AI systems. Nonprofit Independent nonprofit research lab building open tools for public oversight and understanding of AI systems. n/a None 0 Tsinghua KEG Academic · Beijing, China Beijing, China Tsinghua's knowledge engineering group: AMiner, the GLM and ChatGLM models (with Zhipu), CogVLM and AgentBench. Academic Tsinghua's knowledge engineering group: AMiner, the GLM and ChatGLM models (with Zhipu), CogVLM and AgentBench. n/a None 0 Tsinghua NLP Lab (THUNLP) Academic · Beijing, China Beijing, China Tsinghua natural language processing lab known for knowledge-enhanced language models and the MiniCPM small LLMs. Academic Tsinghua natural language processing lab known for knowledge-enhanced language models and the MiniCPM small LLMs. n/a None 0 Tübingen AI Center Academic · Tübingen, Germany Tübingen, Germany Tübingen machine learning center of about 25 research groups, funded by the German federal and Baden-Württemberg governments. Academic Tübingen machine learning center of about 25 research groups, funded by the German federal and Baden-Württemberg governments. n/a None 0 TUM Database Systems Academic · Munich, Germany Munich, Germany Compiled query execution in main-memory and disk-based systems (HyPer, Umbra), from Thomas Neumann's group. Academic Compiled query execution in main-memory and disk-based systems (HyPer, Umbra), from Thomas Neumann's group. n/a None 0 Twelve Labs Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States Video-native AI company with offices in San Francisco and Seoul, building the Marengo and Pegasus video models. Startup lab Video-native AI company with offices in San Francisco and Seoul, building the Marengo and Pegasus video models. n/a None 0 UCLA NLP Academic · Los Angeles, United States Los Angeles, United States UCLA NLP group, known for the VisualBERT vision-language model and the MathVista benchmark. Academic UCLA NLP group, known for the VisualBERT vision-language model and the MathVista benchmark. n/a None 0 UK AI Security Institute Government · United Kingdom United Kingdom The first state AI safety institute (renamed Security in 2025): pre-deployment testing and the Inspect eval framework. Government The first state AI safety institute (renamed Security in 2025): pre-deployment testing and the Inspect eval framework. 2023 None 0 University of Toronto Machine Learning Group Academic · Toronto, Canada Toronto, Canada Machine learning faculty group in Toronto's Department of Computer Science, home of the AlexNet and dropout papers. Academic Machine learning faculty group in Toronto's Department of Computer Science, home of the AlexNet and dropout papers. n/a None 0 Unsloth AI Startup lab · United States United States Open-source toolkit maker for fast, memory-efficient fine-tuning and local running of LLMs, with many quantized models. Startup lab Open-source toolkit maker for fast, memory-efficient fine-tuning and local running of LLMs, with many quantized models. n/a None 0 Upstage Startup lab · Seoul, KR Seoul, KR South Korean AI company known for the Solar language models and depth up-scaling, plus document AI. Startup lab South Korean AI company known for the Solar language models and depth up-scaling, plus document AI. 2020 None 0 US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) Government · United States United States NIST's AI testing center, founded as the US AI Safety Institute and renamed CAISI in 2025; evaluates frontier and foreign models. Government NIST's AI testing center, founded as the US AI Safety Institute and renamed CAISI in 2025; evaluates frontier and foreign models. 2023 None 0 UW Database Group Academic · Seattle, United States Seattle, United States University of Washington group on data management systems, cloud services, probabilistic databases and data pricing. Academic University of Washington group on data management systems, cloud services, probabilistic databases and data pricing. n/a None 0 UW NLP Academic · Seattle, United States Seattle, United States University of Washington natural language processing group behind ELMo, Self-Instruct and QLoRA. Academic University of Washington natural language processing group behind ELMo, Self-Instruct and QLoRA. n/a None 0 Vector Institute Nonprofit · Toronto, Canada Toronto, Canada Toronto's independent AI institute, home to deep learning researchers and work such as neural ODEs. Nonprofit Toronto's independent AI institute, home to deep learning researchers and work such as neural ODEs. 2017 None 0 Visual Geometry Group (VGG), University of Oxford Academic · Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford computer vision group known for the VGG convolutional networks and the VGGFace2 dataset. Academic Oxford computer vision group known for the VGG convolutional networks and the VGGFace2 dataset. n/a None 0 Voyage AI Startup lab Embedding and reranking model company for retrieval, acquired by MongoDB in 2025. Startup lab Embedding and reranking model company for retrieval, acquired by MongoDB in 2025. n/a None 0 Waabi Startup lab · Toronto, Canada Toronto, Canada Self-driving company founded by Raquel Urtasun, using generative AI simulation such as UniSim for autonomous trucks. Startup lab Self-driving company founded by Raquel Urtasun, using generative AI simulation such as UniSim for autonomous trucks. 2021 None 0 Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI) Nonprofit · Mumbai, IN Mumbai, IN Independent non-profit founded in 2018 building AI for underserved communities in health, agriculture and education. Nonprofit Independent non-profit founded in 2018 building AI for underserved communities in health, agriculture and education. 2018 None 0 Waymo Research Company lab · Mountain View, United States Mountain View, United States Waymo's autonomous driving research group, publisher of the Waymo Open Dataset and end-to-end driving models such as EMMA. Company lab Waymo's autonomous driving research group, publisher of the Waymo Open Dataset and end-to-end driving models such as EMMA. n/a None 0 Wayve Startup lab · London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom London autonomous driving company using end-to-end learning, known for the GAIA generative driving world models. Startup lab London autonomous driving company using end-to-end learning, known for the GAIA generative driving world models. 2017 None 0 World Labs Startup lab · San Carlos, United States San Carlos, United States Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence company: models that generate explorable 3D worlds (Marble). Startup lab Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence company: models that generate explorable 3D worlds (Marble). n/a None 0 Writer Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States Enterprise generative AI platform company that trains its own Palmyra family of large language models. Startup lab Enterprise generative AI platform company that trains its own Palmyra family of large language models. n/a None 0 xAI (SpaceXAI) Company lab · San Francisco Bay Area, United States San Francisco Bay Area, United States The Grok models and the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis; now a division of SpaceX. Company lab The Grok models and the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis; now a division of SpaceX. 2023 Grok 4.7 0 Xiaomi MiMo Company lab · China China Xiaomi's large model team, releasing the open MiMo reasoning and MiMo-VL vision-language models. Company lab Xiaomi's large model team, releasing the open MiMo reasoning and MiMo-VL vision-language models. n/a None 0 Yandex Research Company lab · RU RU Yandex's research team for machine learning, known for CatBoost gradient boosting and the open YaLM-100B model. Company lab Yandex's research team for machine learning, known for CatBoost gradient boosting and the open YaLM-100B model. n/a None 0 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) Startup lab · Beijing, China Beijing, China The GLM models, spun out of Tsinghua University's KEG lab; GLM-4.5 and later are open weights. Startup lab The GLM models, spun out of Tsinghua University's KEG lab; GLM-4.5 and later are open weights. 2019 GLM-5.3 0 Zyphra Startup lab · San Francisco, United States San Francisco, United States San Francisco lab training open multimodal models, known for Zamba SSM-hybrid language models and Zonos text-to-speech. Startup lab San Francisco lab training open multimodal models, known for Zamba SSM-hybrid language models and Zonos text-to-speech. n/a None 0 
Amazon AGI and Amazon ScienceCompany lab · Seattle, United StatesSeattle, United StatesThe Amazon Nova models and Nova Act agents, plus Chronos forecasting models from Amazon Science.